Did they place that sign in the middle of a bicycle lane?
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The bike lane is on the street. The sign is in the middle of the sidewalk, which is also dumb.
Is the sign even real? How do we know this is a real picture?
Yes, see other comments.
Reading before commenting? In my internet?
Unconscionable!
I don't see any bike lane in the road...
Hey it’s cheaper to place inconviently in the middle of a bike/walk path rather than a overhead board.
Or to buy more ROW to put it on the grass, for that matter.
No, traffic are all the others who obviously don't have a home and drive around solely to annoy me.
Hell is the other people. (Sartre)
The pole the blue sign is on is behind the black pole, yet the blue sign is overlapping the digital sign.
And if it isn't AI then someone gave the digital sign a serious dent on the top.
That's either AI or the most stupidly-placed sign in the world
*Edit: I agree with the sentiment, it's just in the middle of the bike lane/sidewalk
*Second Edit: as others users pointed out, sign does exist, it's just a weird photo. There's also a bike lane on the other side of the road, separated from the road by a fence and everything.
I retract my statement, it's been a journey.
Frankly, the stupid sign placement doesn't surprise me at all. I would almost be more inclined to think it was AI if it weren't in the way of non-car street users!
Anyway, this community doesn't (currently) have an explicit rule against AI. I might still remove AI slop anyway because people don't like it on the grounds that the distraction it causes violates rule 4 or something like that, but it's got to be more obvious than this. (I have also already seen and considered VonReposti's argument about the blue sign and the dent, BTW.)
Didn't take me long to find the sign at all
https://maps.app.goo.gl/pKwk1yutWirJg7227
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Why’s it stupid? This is the UK. That’s not in the bike lane, it’s on the pavement. These signs are all over the UK, especially London, and they’re used to inform road users about all sorts of things. It’s as close as it can be to the road without sticking into it and people can just want around it. You’re not gonna bang your head on it.
Forgive me, I'm from a place where "bike lane" just means a section of the shoulder, sometimes with a line of paint to discourage cars from running cyclists over.
Someone should introduce this technology to the UK.
Have you seen our plugs?
We belive in overengineering. More chance of having 3 poles than one.
Am British, can confirm. Some of the pavements I walk on are like crazy slalom courses.
It’s not great for drivers either. We possibly have too many road signs, to the point it’s distracting more than informative.
Imagine two people in wheelchairs trying to pass each other on that sidewalk.
It's probably "acceptable" from an engineer's perspective because the edge of the sign is right up against the ROW line (probably the edge of the sidewalk) but doesn't encroach past it and there's enough sidewalk width between the pole and the street for wheelchairs to get by one at a time, but obstructing part of the sidewalk width like that is hardly ideal. If that amount of width were considered good enough, they would've just built the whole thing that width to begin with and saved themselves a bunch of money.
I have an idea
The pole the blue sign is on is behind the black pole, yet the blue sign is overlapping the digital sign.
And if it isn't AI then someone gave the digital sign a serious dent on the top.
Walking around most places, the mandatory width for a sidewalk is often considered free game for basically anything. And we can never expand that and demand minimum clear-space with no intrusions because heaven for-fucking-bid pedestrians are comfortable.
Fun fact: Firefighters in the US and Canada are so bee-dicked that it’s actually their refusal to use smaller trucks that leads to insane road widths. Most other places in the world do more with smaller but the losers over here just can’t hack it.
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Use public transport, a bicycle or an oxford comma
I was considering a short trip to visit family outside the city, here in the NYC region. By train it's like $70 for two of us. By car it's $10 in tolls (per Google maps), plus fuel/wear and externalized costs.
That's ass fucking backwards. I'd much rather take the train. I don't want to spend 5-7x to take the train.
At least within the city it's pretty sensible.
Its even worse when comparing trains vs flying.
Person finds picture of good public signage, posts it to appropriate community, the image is criticized for lack of context perfection. Unreal lol.
Edit: this sign's placement in the middle of the sidewalk is really dumb but yeah one step forward two steps back and around the sign.
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This pic would be more impactful if it wasn't in front of a road that was completely empty except for two vehicles, one of which is a bus.
Seems silly to complain about traffic and offer solutions for it ... in front of a scene where there's no meaningful traffic.
Wait till Monday morning, 7:30.
In order to eliminate the traffic I had to become the traffic.
You merely adopted the traffic, I was born in it, molded by it.
You’d best start believing in traffic, URINE ONE. POOP IS NUMBER TWO.
…just thought I’d garden path my lazy meme into asburism.
"You're not having trouble navigating a crowd, you are the crowd. Don't be part of a crowd."
Sorry, I'm running late. I am traffic.
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