Drivers Complain Raised Crosswalk Slows Vehicles

Re:Drivers Complain Raised Crosswalk Slows Vehicles by loup-vaillant on Saturday January 05, 2019 @04:33PM (#18834404)

Where I live we have a standard sign next to speed bumps:

https://www.direct-signaletique.com/I-Grande-14093-panneau-r...

There, no more problem. From what the reporter said though, it looks like the US doesn't have such a standard sign yet…

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Re:Drivers Complain Raised Crosswalk Slows Vehicles by runarberg on Saturday January 05, 2019 @06:23PM (#18835036)

The sign design in the USA is weird. They really don’t like symbols, and prefer to spell things out with weird abbreviations. Instead of an obvious sign like that, you would get a diamond shaped yellow sign with saying “SPEED BUMB” and instead of a standard crosswalk sign you would get the same yellow diamond saying “PED X-ING”, and it is by no means consistent what they actually say.

The USA could really use some sign design revision.

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