From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-06 00:52, Don Y wrote:   
   > On 12/5/2025 11:44 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>> E.g., we don't have rotaries (traffic circles) here.  When a small (dia)   
   >>> one was installed, recently, drivers drove straight across it, not   
   >>> knowing   
   >>> how to navigate it.  (they have since erected some obstacles in the   
   >>> center to prevent such misuse).   
   >>   
   >> ROTFL!   
   >>   
   >> We had traffic rotaries here since before they were named, since   
   >> before I was born. I remember one, but we called it "Plaza", and cars   
   >> went around it. There was signage:   
   >>   
   >> https://share.google/images/4tU37oqPTKblGw2Rh   (danger)   
   >> https://share.google/images/4tU37oqPTKblGw2Rh   (obligation)   
   >>   
   >> Or perhaps older variants.   
   >   
   > If you come upon such an interchange AT SPEED and have no prior experience   
   > with it, you're faced with thinking on your feet.  In the case of this   
   > one, there is nothing (besides the slight elevation of the curb   
   > threshold, coming and going) to prevent your continuing on your   
   > straight track.  So, you endure these bumps and its behind you!   
      
   Well, they are always preceded with speed limitations. The ancients ones   
   I know about were inside cities, with all connections being streets,   
   with pedestrians crossing about.   
      
   Of course we had some stupid drivers going straight ahead on the first   
   turnarounds, but the cars were destroyed as a result, with the driver in   
   hospital for weeks, or dead. Evolution law in action.   
      
   When it happens now it is usually related to the large intake of alcohol   
   or other drugs.   
      
   >   
   >>> I've seen street signs that were previously all caps, in a helvetica-   
   >>> like   
   >>> typeface replaced by an illegible, mixed-case font.   
   >>>   
   >>> "WATCH FOR FALLING ROCKS" is now depicted graphically.  As is "CATTLE   
   >>> CROSSING" and "WATCH FOR FARM EQUIPMENT".   
   >>   
   >> It is a standard signage:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >> > #:~:text=La%20se%C3%B1al%20de%20la%20vaca,nuestras%20tierras%   
   0no%20tenemos%20vacas.>   
   >>   
   >> Danger of cattle or wild animals crossing.   
   >>   
   >> A triangle with red edges mean danger. If it is filled in yellow, it   
   >> means danger because of road works.   
   >   
   > Yellow diamonds (primarily) are warnings.  ORANGE diamonds alert to   
   > construction activities.  Red is regulatory -- typically STOP, Do Not   
   > Enter,   
   > WRONG WAY (how is this different from Do Not Enter?), Yield and specific   
   > traffic patterns (no left turn, no U turn, etc. in "slashed circles").   
   > Blue for services (?) like Hospital, Charging station.  Brown for   
   > touristy stuff.   
   >   
   > [Amusingly, the slashed red circle doesn't seem to be consistent in   
   > signage, generally.  Sometimes, the slash is right to left while   
   > others it is left to right:   
   >  vector-10384045.avif>]   
   >   
   > We have a (one!) stretch of highway, here, that is denominated in metric   
   > units.   
   > How are drivers expected to make THAT adjustment at highway speeds?   
   >   
   >> It is an international language. Except on the USA :-P   
   >   
   > "We have a better way" -- until we change our mind (sort of like   
   > Microsoft!).   
      
      
   :-DD   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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