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Survey in paper last week seemed to reveal a very scary ignorance.

Now I really cannot understand how or why so many are reported as not knowing these signs when we've all grown up with them.

I just cannot remember a time - even as a boy - when I did not know these road markings.. or at least have the intelligence to work out what they were telling me..


I reduced it in a reply to Ed Brain to cheer him up.. this one is not reduced.




So how many do you recgnise? Only 24 % recognised the Give Way?

What do you think are the other scary stats?

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What about these?

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Q. Are you a stupid fascist with limited reading skills or are you just a retard?

Likewise, I wouldn't have got the double dashed white lines, because I thought they were running down the middle of the road. If they had been shown running across the left side of the road, I would have got them immediately.

As a van driver, I always thought those double yellow markings on the kerb meant:

"Even though there's nowhere else to load/unload, if you do it here you run the risk of a ticket"

About 50% of the time that I see the yellow kerb markings (no loading), they are inside a box marked 'Loading Bay'. I have never understood this!

The triangle obviously means "give way". The markings on the right of the newspaper are give way lines of some kind. Double at junctions, single at roundabouts... I think.

The single or double "no loading" blips are only enforcable if there are corresponding prescribed signs on the same side of the road. (except maybe in a "no loading zone" but I would need to check that)
The double ones mean "no loading at any time", like the sign must say. In 'decriminalised parking enforcement' areas this has one exception: Unless you can be sure that you can drive the vehicle away quickly if you see the parking vultures about to attack because the PCN is only 'served' if it is handed to the driver or affixed to the vehicle. Make sure they aren't able to do either and they can't do anything about it.

My answers to the second quiz:
1. c
2. c (although I believe it is used to mean "lok out for bikes" in a lot of places?)
3. b But it does not exist in the latest TSRGD. Did it used to exist in the 1994 or earlier ones?
4. a
5. a
6. c
7. c
8. c (although I get confused between "waiting" and "stopping" because to me they mean the same thing.)
9. a
10. b

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I believe 7 means beware of trains and is also used in the very few places where the tracks go onto a road. This used to happen at Wheymouth and at Fishguard Harbour the tracks are on the side of the road and eventually lead onto the road.

The specific level crossing without barrier sign is the squashed down x sign at the crossing itself.

When I started to learn to drive (in 1957 - process is still continuing), the simple mantra was;

Signs which warn - triangular.
Signs which inform - rectangular.
Signs which must be obeyed - circular.

That was too easy to remember, so they've changed the words a bit, and have deleted carters' whip signals from the Highway Code, but it's still a good starting point for understanding traffic signs, even though there are exceptions, for example the white rectangular "stop" or "give way" elements of signs at minor-to major junctions.

John

7 is ( c ). Level crossing without (gate or) barrier.

It is sign 771 in the TSRGD

All the road markings and signs are in "Kow Your Road Signs" and the road paint .. lane markings are not the same as those marking junctions.

Look at them all very closely and observantly. They tell you much about the road you ae travelling on Note the subtle differences in shape, style.

Read them.. they all tell you something.... The commas, colons, full stops of the road.

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I'm surprised anyone got 3 right as it's never existed as far as I can tell. Top notch journalism again!

[Edit] Is 5 legit either?

3 doesn't appear to exist in the TSRGD, although the corresponding prohibition does 622.8

7 is 622.7 in TSRGD

Er...Number 3... seen near a quarry in Yorkshire! You'd probably only see it around a place where they might use an explosive charge to quarry out stone and rocks. As we have less quarries .. less of these signs and perhaps a nasty trick question.


Also in my wife's country - Switzerland

They mined them tunnels

Rum country ... but you all "met" my wife - sort of! Well - her mind and her spelling mistakes anyway!




There's one which features on the kids' "Driving Theory CD-Rom" It's a STOP octagon but does not say "STOP" . It has something like icicles and snowflakes on it. Per the answers - you are marked correct if you click on the "option" for "STOP". But whereas I have seen plenty of "STOP" hexagons with the accompanying thick "Solid whites" across the road - never, ever seen the one with the icicles and snow flakes all over it.

Has anyone seen anything like that?

By trhe way - pleased to report .. T-t-terrible twins now qualified as drivers.. as of last week.

Only it's costing me to insure them... Ah well....

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If it's on private property then I suppose they could just make it up, there's a zebra crossing in a retail park thing in Poole with "pedestrians prohibited" signs either side of it.

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