22h ago

Car-brains on vacation

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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.

That sign usually means no entry for bikes so I was confused for a moment
- Since the sign is turned towards the viewer, it just seems as if someone drunk placed it a few meters right from where it was supposed to be.
- Also fits because tourists would ignore most posted signs.
- Don't signs usually have a line through it when it means "no", or is that just american signage?
  
  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.
  
  In the Netherlands (where this is depicted) it's typically a white sign with black letters and a red line around it for prohibited, or blue with white text for required
  So a white sign with black numbers 80 and a red line around it means prohibited to drive faster than 80, s similar sign with a biker means forbidden for bikes there. If it's a blue sign with a bike, it means bikes are required ro go here.
  A line through it actually means "end of this particular prohibition"
  
  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
- 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.
- 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
- If that’s the signs intent, shouldn’t it also have a line through it? (Like the old no smoking signs?)
  
  I agree that they should but apparently they don't.
  
  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.
- Now you are confusing me. I thought she is taking about the sign and about if someone would propose to put it in her town.
  
  I think she means the whole idea of bike friendly infrastructure as a US citizen. But thats my interpretation, the comic isn't very clear.
- me too

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.

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