Do this, don't do that, can't you read the signs....Catchy tune but it has a point. Do we really need all the ridiculous road signs? Have people really become so stupid, or lack enough common sense for the obvious, that we need more signs to tell us how to drive?Case in point; here in Ontario it takes no less than 3 road signs to announce a change in speed limit. One would assume that the speed will decrease when approaching a small town for example, yet it takes no less than 3 signs to announce this. The first one to say speed changes ahead (60km/h AHEAD), the next "60km/h BEGINS", and another just to rub it in and post the new limit of 60km/h. One sign, two at most would be more than sufficient.Another favorite is south of the border when states post signs for passing zones. "passing zone begins", "pass with care", "no passing". Are the bright yellow lines painted on the road not enough?? Obviously a long straight stretch of road with a dashed centerline and no oncoming traffic would be a safe place to pass versus a hill or curve in the road with a solid line. Do we really need more signs to state the obvious?Surely the governments have better things to waste taxpayers' money on than cluttering our highways with unnecessary signage.Anybody else share this pet peave? Examples?Rant over.

Article discusses the apparent danger of relying on too many signs that compete for drivers' attention

And from the subject line of your post, I thought you were going to go on a rant about the number of safety and caution stickers in our RVs! Even one over my door "Exit".Your example of the impending speed limit change has me laughing. My new GPS (Garmin 760LMT) even pops up warnings across the top of the screen about speed changes up the road. I gotta' figure out how to turn that one off.And a friend of mine from Canada shared on Facebook, a picture of a statement of a coffee cup "If this was another country, we'd have to tell you this coffee may be hot. Good thing this is Canada!"

I have no issue in the amount of signs it takes to get people to "slow down"I live in a small Ontario village and traffic at times don't drop at all from the 80km. Not living in the USA, we appreciate the signs. When you don't use the roads daily you don't know if you are in a school zone, where passing is safe etc. We don't know the roads. As far as coffee cups saying that itbis hot. I think they started putting the words on because people were blaming the coffee shop for their hot coffee burning them as they it is spilled while driving, trying to use a phone and apply make up at the same time. Basically, they were being sued for serving hot coffee!

What ticks me off the most with all these signs is the one you really need at an intersection is usually the smallest one, lost in the clutter.

Went to Oregon this summer, been a lot of years since I was in the state, and I noticed all the signs along there roads. What struck me as funny was the amount of curve signs and speed signs for corners along I84 like it was the autobahn when they actually have it posted at 65 mph. Another thing that amazed me was driving across the state on I 84 at 65 when I just ran through Utah and Idaho at 80. Guess Oregon doesn't trust its residents to be able to drive faster then 65 or trust that they can see a corner coming up.

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noteven
Explorer III
Oct 25, 2014
Article discusses the apparent danger of relying on too many signs that compete for drivers' attention
TomHaycraft
Explorer
Oct 25, 2014
And from the subject line of your post, I thought you were going to go on a rant about the number of safety and caution stickers in our RVs! Even one over my door "Exit".

Your example of the impending speed limit change has me laughing. My new GPS (Garmin 760LMT) even pops up warnings across the top of the screen about speed changes up the road. I gotta' figure out how to turn that one off.

And a friend of mine from Canada shared on Facebook, a picture of a statement of a coffee cup "If this was another country, we'd have to tell you this coffee may be hot. Good thing this is Canada!"
loulou57
Explorer
Oct 25, 2014
I have no issue in the amount of signs it takes to get people to "slow down"
I live in a small Ontario village and traffic at times don't drop at all from the 80km. Not living in the USA, we appreciate the signs. When you don't use the roads daily you don't know if you are in a school zone, where passing is safe etc. We don't know the roads.

As far as coffee cups saying that itbis hot. I think they started putting the words on because people were blaming the coffee shop for their hot coffee burning them as they it is spilled while driving, trying to use a phone and apply make up at the same time. Basically, they were being sued for serving hot coffee!
Fizz
Explorer
Oct 25, 2014
What ticks me off the most with all these signs is the one you really need at an intersection is usually the smallest one, lost in the clutter.
Muddydogs
Explorer
Oct 25, 2014
Went to Oregon this summer, been a lot of years since I was in the state, and I noticed all the signs along there roads. What struck me as funny was the amount of curve signs and speed signs for corners along I84 like it was the autobahn when they actually have it posted at 65 mph. Another thing that amazed me was driving across the state on I 84 at 65 when I just ran through Utah and Idaho at 80. Guess Oregon doesn't trust its residents to be able to drive faster then 65 or trust that they can see a corner coming up.
westend
Explorer
Oct 25, 2014
There's a time and place to save money on transportation budgets. IMO, cautionary road signs would be towards the bottom of the cut list. First sign chop would be those Interstate signs that advertise different vendors with their logos at every exit. If we need cheaper signs, maybe the DOT saved all those metric conversion signs from the 80's. We could repurpose those.
cpaulsen
Explorer
Oct 25, 2014
I-80 in Oregon??
Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Oct 25, 2014
It's called CYA and they are catering to the lowest denominator!
camp-n-family
Explorer
Oct 25, 2014
I have no issue in the amount of signs it takes to get people to "slow down"
I live in a small Ontario village and traffic at times don't drop at all from the 80km. Not living in the USA, we appreciate the signs. When you don't use the roads daily you don't know if you are in a school zone, where passing is safe etc. We don't know the roads.

I live in a small town too (London in the profile because it's the closest city people would recognize)and drive through several daily on my way to work. It's true that a lot of people don't slow down through the towns. It's not because they don't see the signs. You could put 50 signs and it wouldn't change. We don't need more signs, we need better instruction and policing.

The school zone signs are definitely important ones that we should have, but how many of those are posted? Usually just one for "school zone begins" and sometimes one for "school zone ends". You dont see "school zone ahead", followed by "school zone begins", followed by "school zone" like you do for a simple speed limit.

You don't need signs for passing, even if unfamiliar with the roads, just look at the road. The "signage" is painted right on it in the form of designated centerline stripes. Posted signage is just redundant and unnecessary.
azrving
Explorer
Oct 25, 2014
You are giving people too much credit. They cant even merge SMOOTHLY. They come on the entrance ramp and act as though you are supposed to get the heck out of their way. Or they come on so slowly then take off flying. Worse part of driving is the entrance ramps. If people didn't have three signs, they would whine that it's unfair.