I'm pretty sure it's saying you can't turn left onto the road to the left of the intersection. Looks like some pretty bad road design.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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I'm gonna say it's easy when the street names are in the photo.
It's also easier when there are no rules saying you can't enter that road name into Google maps.
Easier, definitely. And a unique street name. But it's quite hard to read the cross street name. All I can see is the "E DR" at the end. I probably wouldn't have bothered from just seeing the one street and no other text.
I got lucky with Google Maps highlighting the apartment building in the background as a POI to match up with.
Atlanta and Peachtree Rd/Ln/Dr/Ave/Way/Plaza/literally 65 more variations of this say hello.
I think it makes giving directions easier. Everything in this town is 'just off Peachtree'
I understand the intent from your graphic, but given the signage, I would not have known what they expected of me.
The painting on the road should indicate a 45° left instead of 90° left.
You're absolutely correct. I just thought it made for a funny photo. It's very on brand for this city to do dumb shit like this.
I've been confused and made dangerous choices in traffic for less stupid reasons. Not trying to deflect all blame but considering the lowest common denominator, road construction and signs really need to pay much more attention to the limits of the human brain.
Half of us have an IQ below 100 and we could be driving in darkness, with rain pouring down and facing traffic that shines its headlights into our eyes. The road needs to have an affordance that suggests to the driver how to drive correctly, instead of causing confusion when you already have a lot of traffic to keep track of.
Bad road design for sure, but the sign still could be better. For example they could make a custom sign, draw the intersection and mark explicitly that you can't turn to Oakwood.
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Apart from what some commenters already pointed out (about the orientation of the roads there), I'm not sure how it's going in the US, but in Europe, we have a hierarchy, where the sign on a pole takes precedence over the sign painted on the road.
The hierarchy is:
- Police officer's hand signs
- Traffic lights
- Signs on a pole
- Signs painted on the road
According to this, you cannot turn left, even though it looks like a left turning lane.
Is there such a thing in the US?
Is there such a thing in the US?
Yeah.
- Whatever the heck I want, because "ma freedom"
- Police officer's hand signs
- Traffic lights
- Signs on a pole
- Signs painted on the road
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Sometimes construction makes for unexpected detours.
(I should probably mention that it's also a dead end road, so no backing out)
They really said "fuck that house in particular!"
Gotta jump that roof like a ramp
The guy that owns that white car already fell into this trap and got stuck, said screw it, parked, and just moved into the house.
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Florida. No other explanation needed.
For real. It's not even the dumbest shit I've seen today. Someone missed an entrance onto i95, so they drove up the offramp intended for the opposite direction. Got 50ft before an oncoming car made them realize their mistake.
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It’s a detour…you have to drive through the bush.
Hi neighbor .... we should really make /c/miami
I'm surprised it doesn't already exist. Do you want the honors? I already mod a few groups here, I can easily help with that too.
Do eet! I don't have the time to run ANOTHER community
Dale. I'll figure that out once I'm off work later.
I knew it. I said "I've only seen road design this bad in one so-called state."
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That's Miami. Nobody pays attention to street signs anyway.
Exactly. I assume that's why they didn't bother doing the proper signage.
Pa la pinga.
So just... Detour through the hedge?
I just did the same thing. No left turn onto Oakwood Dr.
I AM RENT A CAR run by I. M. Weasel.
For me I'm hearing it to the tune of the black sabbath song.
Has he lost his keys?
Can he buy or is it leased?
Can he drive at all
If he moves, maybe uhaul?
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Makes perfect sense to me. Sign on a pole takes precedence over sign on road.
The Detour sign says that you should go through the 'Do Not Enter'....
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Seems the mildly infuriating part is the left out information.
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