I'm pretty sure it's saying you can't turn left onto the road to the left of the intersection. Looks like some pretty bad road design.
It's also easier when there are no rules saying you can't enter that road name into Google maps.
Easier, definitely. And a unique street name. But it's quite hard to read the cross street name. All I can see is the "E DR" at the end. I probably wouldn't have bothered from just seeing the one street and no other text.
I got lucky with Google Maps highlighting the apartment building in the background as a POI to match up with.
Atlanta and Peachtree Rd/Ln/Dr/Ave/Way/Plaza/literally 65 more variations of this say hello.
I think it makes giving directions easier. Everything in this town is 'just off Peachtree'
I understand the intent from your graphic, but given the signage, I would not have known what they expected of me.
True, although since you're specifically referring to the angle indicated by the painting on the road, referring to the angle of the painted arrow itself would be clearer.
I think they're saying the arrow would be drawn at a 135° angle compared to the "vertical" base.
You're absolutely correct. I just thought it made for a funny photo. It's very on brand for this city to do dumb shit like this.
I've been confused and made dangerous choices in traffic for less stupid reasons. Not trying to deflect all blame but considering the lowest common denominator, road construction and signs really need to pay much more attention to the limits of the human brain.
Half of us have an IQ below 100 and we could be driving in darkness, with rain pouring down and facing traffic that shines its headlights into our eyes. The road needs to have an affordance that suggests to the driver how to drive correctly, instead of causing confusion when you already have a lot of traffic to keep track of.
Bad road design for sure, but the sign still could be better. For example they could make a custom sign, draw the intersection and mark explicitly that you can't turn to Oakwood.
This is exactly the type of content i was hoping for when i clicked on the comments. Thank you for all you hard work sluthing for an explination of a random photo. Its truly gods work that your doing.
Apart from what some commenters already pointed out (about the orientation of the roads there), I'm not sure how it's going in the US, but in Europe, we have a hierarchy, where the sign on a pole takes precedence over the sign painted on the road.
The hierarchy is:
According to this, you cannot turn left, even though it looks like a left turning lane.
Is there such a thing in the US?
Is there such a thing in the US?
Yeah.
in Europe, we have a hierarchy
This is definitely not true for all of Europe. In Germany, for instance, signs on roads have equal precedence to signs on poles.
Here in Finland we just wait for snow, then you can't see the painted one.
Which is why it was such a great idea to replace our solid "you can't pass here" lines from their old bright yellow to EU matching white so that that self driving cars understand them correctly. So now during the winter both of us and the machines can't see them equally well.
In Germany we actually test people before we let them drive cars. If you’re from the US, this concept might be unfamiliar :D
This has nothing to do with the drivers, and more to do with municipal workers putting up signage.
Lately the trend is for temporary signs to have yellow background instead of white. So if you see road construction you'll see a yellow background sign.
Yellow signs are suggestions or warnings. Always have been. Construction (temporary) are orange. As seen in the OP.
When it comes to what order on how you should follow them:
For real. It's not even the dumbest shit I've seen today. Someone missed an entrance onto i95, so they drove up the offramp intended for the opposite direction. Got 50ft before an oncoming car made them realize their mistake.
I overheard someone in a court house trying to argue with who I assumed was their assigned counsel that it's totally legal to enter on an off ramp, as long as you're going in reverse.
Sometimes construction makes for unexpected detours.
(I should probably mention that it's also a dead end road, so no backing out)
The guy that owns that white car already fell into this trap and got stuck, said screw it, parked, and just moved into the house.
I'm surprised it doesn't already exist. Do you want the honors? I already mod a few groups here, I can easily help with that too.
Miami dade exists in it's own state separate from Florida ....
a state of chaos (and it's constant)
Has he lost his keys?
Can he buy or is it leased?
Can he drive at all
If he moves, maybe uhaul?
That is such a bad road design. So basically if you want to turn left you have to cut through bigger road and leave it immediately.
many signs should really be treated as suggestions. so many roads here with zero fucking business being 35 here