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[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Literally all my friends: "yeah it was really nice in [europe/asia] to be able to walk everywhere... But we could never do that back home!"

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

One of the best posts to ever appear on this community/on this topic

10/10

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

No. The best posts are news articles about cars being banned.

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That sign usually means no entry for bikes so I was confused for a moment

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

If that’s the signs intent, shouldn’t it also have a line through it? (Like the old no smoking signs?)

[-] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, was confused as well, as this is the "no cycling" sign in my country

And this is "No slow moving vehicle" sign

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 months ago

Don't signs usually have a line through it when it means "no", or is that just american signage?

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

instructions unclear, the banana is up my ass

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You must pay the rent

I can't pay the rent

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

We ain't got the money for the mortgage on the farm!

[-] seekpie@lemmy.seekpie.nohost.me 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago

Red state. We can't afford the extra 2 sides.

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[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

European bike lanes (like this one should probably depict) are round and solid blue with a bike depicted on them.

bike lane

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.

biking prohibited

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

A line obscures the thing it's trying to explain. Visually noisy, hard to read.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

if I didn't already know better, i would have interpreted these two signs to be synonymous.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

i mean red generally means something negative, presuming you're not colour blind

[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah a / would make more intuitive.

[-] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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'.

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Bike lanes in NA are denigrated by the police/delivery drivers parking in them.

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[-] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] three20three@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Also fits because tourists would ignore most posted signs.

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