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That sign usually means no entry for bikes so I was confused for a moment
Don't signs usually have a line through it when it means "no", or is that just american signage?
instructions unclear, the banana is up my ass
You missed the "Caution: A Bannana" sign then didn't you?
there were three bananas before the caution sign and I slipped
You must pay the rent
I can't pay the rent
We ain't got the money for the mortgage on the farm!
Also, stop signs are ~~hexagonal~~ octagonal and yield signs triangular so you could notice them even when they're not facing you.
Edit: octagon/hexagon
Stop signs are octagonal.
Red state. We can't afford the extra 2 sides.
European bike lanes (like this one should probably depict) are round and solid blue with a bike depicted on them.
In Europe, lanes, where biking is prohibited are denoted by a round white sign with a relative wide red border (circle) and a bike depicted at its center.
I feel like a single line through would have been the correct design choice, still, because in practically every other context, that's what's used (no smoking signs, for example).
Seems like many, many other places around the world put a line through for road signs (though a couple outside Europe don't, and even some inside Europe do): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_traffic_sign
My 2¢, Europe is wrong on this one, despite being right on so much else haha
A line obscures the thing it's trying to explain. Visually noisy, hard to read.
if I didn't already know better, i would have interpreted these two signs to be synonymous.
i mean red generally means something negative, presuming you're not colour blind
Yeah a / would make more intuitive.
Neither is more intuitive, it's just what you're used to, culturally. Europeans could equally go to America, see a white sign with black symbol and red border and remark upon learning that it indicates a bike lane 'That's just not intuitive'.
Bike lanes in NA are denigrated by the police/delivery drivers parking in them.
At least in the UK which has a lot of common signage with the rest of Europe you normally just have a red circle sign (generally prohibitive orders) with the picture of a disallowed vehicle in. Or a blank interior for 'no vehicles'. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/traffic-signs
If that’s the signs intent, shouldn’t it also have a line through it? (Like the old no smoking signs?)
Yeah, was confused as well, as this is the "no cycling" sign in my country
And this is "No slow moving vehicle" sign
Also fits because tourists would ignore most posted signs.
It does?!