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Long Haired Freaky People Need Not Apply by Spidere

August 20th, 2007 9:11 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Document a confusing, unsettling, or contradictory officially-placed
sign. Explain why it might have this effect.

This should help prepare you to think outside the box...

While anywhere with more than a couple of roadsigns is usually confusing, they're usually not outright contradictory.

As it turns out, you can turn right here. Maybe they just forgot to take down the old one-way sign...or perhaps left it up as testament to its long service.

I also like the thought that they put the new sign up, realized that the old one-way was confusing, and so decided to add the yellow sign as well--by the argument that having two signs which say you can turn right outvotes the one saying you can't.

- smaller

one way...well, unless you're in the right lane

one way...well, unless you're in the right lane



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posted by Charlie Fish on August 22nd, 2007 9:00 AM

Cool... where is this?

Location
posted by Spidere on August 22nd, 2007 9:19 AM

This is in Pleasanton, CA, as you head from Stoneridge Mall Road to Stoneridge Drive. Stoneridge Mall Road, incidentally, intersects with itself a few blocks away.

But I'm not complaining--it's not as confusing as many other street layouts. Boston, I'm looking at you.

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posted by rongo rongo on August 22nd, 2007 10:05 AM

Hiya. I lived in Pleasanton for 2 years, and have been in Boston for about 18. I think the reason the signs here are less confusing is that people mostly don't look at them or expect any useful information.

Is there still that strange mall-diving situation where you come off the highway and need to cross 4 lanes of traffic to get into the mall?

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posted by Spidere on August 22nd, 2007 10:30 AM

Hello, pleased to meet you! And you may be right about Boston (or perhaps that's just my excuse for having gone the wrong way down a one-way street or two).

As to Pleasanton, I must admit that the highway off-ramps in either direction now lead quite easily into the mall. So it would seem that they're learning something...how to get more people to go to the mall, if nothing else.

CA
posted by mr. b on August 29th, 2007 2:29 AM

nice one! i've noticed that californian road signs are pretty confusing on the whole anyway. they seem to be attempting to make it totally unambiguous but instead are making it utterly baffling...
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