That sign usually means no entry for bikes so I was confused for a moment
Don't signs usually have a line through it when it means "no", or is that just american signage?
instructions unclear, the banana is up my ass
You missed the "Caution: A Bannana" sign then didn't you?
there were three bananas before the caution sign and I slipped
Also, stop signs are ~~hexagonal~~ octagonal and yield signs triangular so you could notice them even when they're not facing you.
Edit: octagon/hexagon
Stop signs are octagonal.
Red state. We can't afford the extra 2 sides.
Or when covered in snow or if the sign is badly damaged
This should be in drivers education in Europe
they are, aren't they? not with a banana ofc, but I know they are categorized based on shape and color.
European bike lanes (like this one should probably depict) are round and solid blue with a bike depicted on them.
In Europe, lanes, where biking is prohibited are denoted by a round white sign with a relative wide red border (circle) and a bike depicted at its center.
if I didn't already know better, i would have interpreted these two signs to be synonymous.
i mean red generally means something negative, presuming you're not colour blind
Mandatory signs are road signs that are used to set the obligations of all traffic that uses a specific area of road. Most mandatory road signs are circular in shape and may use white symbols on a blue background with a white border, or black symbols on a white background with a red border, although the latter is also associated with prohibitory signs.
i am now more confused than I was before.
Learning Vienna Convention road signs takes a few minutes for the basic principles, an hour or two for the really arcane signs such as "watch out for carriages" and "levy ahead".
The system is superior to the North American hell system by a huge margin, not least of which because it allows me to drive to Spain or Czechia without needing to study their traffic laws and learn the local language. The signs will be very similar and their meanings otherwise easy to intuit.
Now let me blow your mind: you already do this in NA. But you stopped at yield signs and stop signs. Their shape is immediately recognizable and parseable even if you don't speak English or even if they are covered in snow (that's on purpose). Now just imagine every sign is like that instead of the designers giving up and writing some text on a yellow rectangle. "Road work ahead"? Bitch, just put a schematic road worker in a red triangle instead of making me read shit at 90 km/h, this ain't book club!
Is there a problem having a little line through the thing you’re not supposed to do?
/American (sorry) question
That is used for cancelling a previous sign.
Ooooh how interesting!!
Thanks for the embeds as well
This is also used on town/city signs to indicate when you are leaving it (at least in Poland)
Technically that is also canceling the previous sign that said you are entering the town.
At least in the UK which has a lot of common signage with the rest of Europe you normally just have a red circle sign (generally prohibitive orders) with the picture of a disallowed vehicle in. Or a blank interior for 'no vehicles'. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/traffic-signs
Also fits because tourists would ignore most posted signs.
I agree the the comic is a bit confusing but to be fair it's in black and white. A red border would mean no entry but a completely blue background would be only bikes allowed.
It makes sense to think that they are car owners that in their regular life wouldn't tolerate bikes but on holidays find it great.
If that’s the signs intent, shouldn’t it also have a line through it? (Like the old no smoking signs?)
Nope:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_traffic_sign
Many countries use red circle + symbol to depict who is not permitted to drive there.
It does?!
With the wide circle that would normally be red it means no bikes beyond this point in Europe and most of the world
Poor design. If you were colour blind, that sign would be very confusing. It needs a line through it.
For example, these signs all mean not to do something, and anyone should be able to figure that out:
Why would color blind people struggle with this sign? There are no similar looking signs which mean something different.
The closest one would be this one:
And any color blind person is able to distinguish those two easily.
I see how it can be confusing for someone not used to it but for anyone who grew up in a country where this is the default it is perfectly understandable.
Poor design. If you were colour blind, that sign would be very confusing.
No it wouldn't. That border shape only exists in red for prohibitions. Even if you were colour blind you could see the border. There is no other sign you could mix it up with.
The strikethrough is in use for a different purpose, to cancel a previous sign (i.e. end of the bike lane).
Poor design. If you were colour blind,
Everybody from Europe would get the (un?)intended meaning of the sign in the cartoon (biking prohibited) and it's black and white. It just needs to be taught once.
well, that's very counterintuitive for someone from south america. I'd read it as a sign to communicate the presence of bikes to car drivers.
Warning/Attention signs have a triangle shape:
One of the best posts to ever appear on this community/on this topic
10/10
No. The best posts are news articles about cars being banned.
Literally all my friends: "yeah it was really nice in [europe/asia] to be able to walk everywhere... But we could never do that back home!"
This comic is ablest. Bikes are ablest. Anything walkable is ablest. Arguing with me about it is ablest. Downvoting this comic is ablest. Everyone but me is ablest.
No, I will not talk about wheelchair accessible infrastructure ever.
[Mod hat on] A note to the person who reported this (and probably some of the downvoters): I appreciate your concern and if I thought this were actually trying to argue against biking and walkability as being "ableist" I'd certainly remove it for misinformation/trolling, but it's obviously dripping with sarcasm so I won't. Nevertheless, keep the reports coming because I do take every single one of them seriously.
[Mod hat off] To @UnderpantsWeevil: your joke would've been a lot funnier if there had actually been somebody in this thread holding the position you're trying to mock (and quibbling about sign legibility isn't that). As it is, it's kind of a weird non-sequitur that definitely didn't land the way you intended.
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