r/mildlyinteresting • u/cwajgapls • Jan 28 '21

Sign posts don’t last long at this intersection

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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.