..and its first cousin:
'SIGN UNDER TEST' (Yep.. it works!)
This particular sign, at other times, has been happily exhorting drivers to 'DRIVE SAFELY' (in english & welsh) for several years. It's placed on a (semi-blind) bend, approaching 3 consecutive merge points of slip road traffic & 'merge in turn' with a varying speed restriction (dependent on wind strength) for a bridge crossing, often with a queue of varying length. I do wonder, when monoglot drivers 'read' the welsh version - which takes most of the sign area - then the english version beneath, which must take several seconds - whether the cause of safe driving has really been advanced...
May there be cause under the provisions of 'Thou shallt not phone, smoke fags, fiddle with the ICE etc. whilst Driving Act' for displaying a sign that needlessly takes your attention from driving & is positively counterproductive in its effect?
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In Blairite times I thought it odd that that they didn't carry messages from the "Dear Leader" more likely to carry slogans from our current chairman.
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Woodbines - that reminds me of a billboard above a junction back home in the '70s (near Burnley) which read:
"A moment's inattention causes accidents"
I jest not!
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Think probably the saddest sign i've ever seen was near the Skye bridge (one of the country's most beautiful areas imo) and displayed the immortal line ''dont take drugs and drive''.
Shocked me and the goodly SWMBO to think that such a lovely place could hide such evil.
Sorry bit strong but i have a real problem with drug dealers.
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Sorry bit strong but i have a real problem with drug dealers.
Never go to a pub then?
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