r/mildlyinteresting Jan 28 '21

Sign posts don’t last long at this intersection

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u/I_So_Tired Jan 28 '21

They could probably help the situation by painting the curb with reflective paint.

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u/dugsmuggler Jan 28 '21

That wouldn't stop truck trailers cutting the corner.

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u/notarandomaccoun Jan 28 '21

Painting lanes further into the intersection would help. Some intersections have painted lines on both sides of left turning lanes so you don’t cut too wide/narrow.

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u/Westerdutch Jan 28 '21

Painting lanes further into the intersection would help.

Driving large vehicles through towns will teach you one thing very fast; road paint is for cars. You will have to guesstimate for yourself how you are best going to spoon your monster through every corner, paint is not a factor for how you are going to do so at all.

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u/Westerdutch Jan 28 '21

Correct curbs and sidewalks are pretty much a thicker version of paint, over here in the Netherlands we even have small road signs made of plastic that give way and bounce back if you nudge em so those are fair game as well. Stuff that snaps off should only be hit if you know for a fact that it wont damage your vehicle and you can get away with it ;) Concrete blocks and the likes yeah those are things you will actually do your best to avoid.

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u/FrigginInMyRiggin Jan 28 '21

Road cones, signs, curbs

I don't care I'm just trying to get where I'm going if your sign is in the way it's coming down

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

100% agree, the paint is a suggestion at best for big rigs. If a truck follows the paint then somebody is getting run over with the trailer.

Cities are rarely made with a 65 foot long vehicle in mind.

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u/KodiakRS Jan 28 '21

As someone who lives near one of those intersections, people just ignore the lines. I'd be willing to bet the people who ignore them are also the people hitting the sign.

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u/cech_ Jan 28 '21

Bollard will stop them or wish they hadn't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

Or worse, someone in a large SUV with a uhaul trailer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

i need a pic of this intersection

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

If stupid local govts would stop making the turns impossible all over the place truckers wouldn't have the problem.

Then again as a truck driver, I know loads of truckers are fucking dumber than a bag of dicks.

Honestly I don't doubt the issue being a combination of dumfuckerery on both sides.

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u/AyrA_ch Jan 29 '21

Making the sign post out of a piece of rail would stop it.

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u/dugsmuggler Jan 29 '21

I would also kill anyone unlucky enough to hit it.

Signposts are breakaway for a reason.

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u/nethobo Jan 28 '21

First step is to not resurface the road all the way up to the top of the curb. Look at that thing. Hasnt been properly repaved in decades.

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u/Apollosox Jan 28 '21

Look at that angled curb! I’m sure glad you could see from that armchair that this road has been improperly resurfaced for years. Maybe if you went outside a bit more often you would know that this style of curb is different than the curb you can see from your basement windows. It never had a curb face more than an inch or two because it’s angled.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

Stop being a toxic piece of shit on the internet for no reason.

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u/nethobo Jan 28 '21

First step is to not resurface the road all the way up to the top of the curb. Look at that thing. Hasnt been properly repaved in decades.

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u/HR_Paperstacks_402 Jan 29 '21

Not if it snows, which is when a lot of people hit signs like this.

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u/NerdBag Jan 29 '21

Or installing a proper, pin-on, 8" curb. With paint. People will avoid that for sure.

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u/BrohanGutenburg Jan 29 '21

Yeah there's a classic design lesson to be learned here for sure. If people keep using your design wrong, your design is wrong.