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I mean, it's daft that the signs have been put up the wrong way, but personally I think it's pretty obvious that the sign on the left of the road, where you're driving, will correspond to the speed limit coming up, and the sign on the right side should be facing the other way.
Also lovely that the picture shows a driver stopped on the 'wrong' side of the road, and letting someone out of the other side into the road rather than onto the pavement...
Also. This is news?
@WC. Will the sign on the left not always be 20 in that scenario? (or are you suggesting that the drivers should always go at 20?)
I can think of a lot of other signs which are badly installed. but don't seem to have made the news.
No, if the sign on the right in the picture is turned round, then when you head in the other direction it will be on the left, indicating that that bit of road is 30, until you hit the 20 sign on the other end.
This all makes sense in my head. I need a diagram.
Mind you, drivers always going 20 would make sense.
Here you go,
With 20 zone on the right and 30 zone on the left the top half is as it should be. While the bottom half has the lower sign on the left and drivers will always have 20 to the left regardless of which way they are travelling.
Now looks like being blamed on 'saboteurs'.
I don't think the signs have a speed on both sides. Doesn't look like it from the pictures.
The signs have been mounted off centre so that most of the signs should be over the footway and further from the edge of the carriageway to avoid being hit by passing lorries. In the top pic 'as drivers enter' the 30 on the right is too near/over the kerb and would be hit. In the 2nd pic 'as drivers exit' the 20 on the left is too near/over the kerb and would be hit.
Of course signs well clear of the carriageway also get hit by bad drivers, sometimes with confusing results.
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