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minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·10 hours agoThat sign looks like it says “no cycling”?
minus-squaremrgoosmoos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·10 hours agoyes. dutch signs use red circles to indicate what is not allowed
minus-squareteslekova@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoUm. Really? No crossout? Jeez. They must arrest a ton of British tourists.
minus-squaremrgoosmoos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 hours agoyeah I get that the standardization is great, but no cross seems like an odd choice to me
minus-squareLePoisson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·6 hours agoInteresting, as an American our road signage is similar to the standard the other person commented. I’ve only ever seen signs that indicate what is not allowed with a very prominent slash through it though - not just a circle
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 minutes agoNo, American signs mostly use “NO” in text to indicate “not allowed”. Very inefficient. In Europe, we use multiple thin black slashes over a greyed-out sign to indicate the ban has ended.
minus-squarepleb_maximus@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·9 hours agoNot only Dutch signs. They are pretty much standardized across most of Europe and some other places, thanks to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals.
minus-squareVibeSurgeon@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 hours agoYeah, the shape is wrong, but I think the intent was to indicate “bike street” or something of the sort
That sign looks like it says “no cycling”?
This one?
yes. dutch signs use red circles to indicate what is not allowed
That’s black
Um. Really? No crossout? Jeez.
They must arrest a ton of British tourists.
yeah I get that the standardization is great, but no cross seems like an odd choice to me
Interesting, as an American our road signage is similar to the standard the other person commented. I’ve only ever seen signs that indicate what is not allowed with a very prominent slash through it though - not just a circle
No, American signs mostly use “NO” in text to indicate “not allowed”. Very inefficient.
In Europe, we use multiple thin black slashes over a greyed-out sign to indicate the ban has ended.
Not only Dutch signs. They are pretty much standardized across most of Europe and some other places, thanks to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals.
Yep!
Yeah, the shape is wrong, but I think the intent was to indicate “bike street” or something of the sort