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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / April 2008Lighted Street Name Signs
Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This is causing accidents especially for older persons, people unfamiliar with the area and/or using an out of date GPS or map. So maybe street signs could be doubled in size and lighted by the old glow in the dark method or by new simple technology solar battery powered LED backlights. >Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial >enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >glow in the dark method or by new simple technology solar battery >powered LED backlights. Won't help. SoCal has large, lighted street signs and geezers still cause all kinds of collisions.  Signature"Dave's not here, man!" - Tommy Chong > >Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial > >enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > "Dave's not here, man!" > - Tommy Chong Nothing once you get off the main sreets - and these "mai streets" include almost all two-lane residential streets. I'm taling San Diego , city and county. > Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial > enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > glow in the dark method or by new simple technology solar battery > powered LED backlights. Solar powered illumination: A good idea. Larger signs: If you can't read them now, its time to stop driving. SignaturePaul Hovnanian paul@hovnanian.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Procrastinators: The leaders for tomorrow. > > Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial > > enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Procrastinators: The leaders for tomorrow. I disagree, in many places the street signs that are used are completely invisible, especially at night, even to a driver with better than 20/20 vision. Often they're only 18" or so long and hidden behind a bush, bent at an odd angle, etc. I remember from living in Michigan you'd often see signs at the side of the road something like "Woodward Ave. Next Signal" or something like that; if that were implemented more widely that would greatly facilitate traffic flow. nate > > > Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial > > > enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Good point, Nate, about the size and darkness. Spotslight are very rare and a big flashligth won't fit into the glovebox easily. > > > Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial > > > enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > better than 20/20 vision. Often they're only 18" or so long and > hidden behind a bush, bent at an odd angle, etc. So, a sign that's twice as large, hidden behind a bush or bent at an odd angle would be better? > I remember from living in Michigan you'd often see signs at the side > of the road something like "Woodward Ave. Next Signal" or something > like that; if that were implemented more widely that would greatly > facilitate traffic flow. > > nate SignaturePaul Hovnanian mailto:Paul@Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fast wine, loose cars, old women. > > > > Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial > > > > enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > So, a sign that's twice as large, hidden behind a bush or bent at an odd > angle would be better? No, not particularly - my point was that the "time to stop driving" comment was unwarranted as there's lots of street signs that I can't read, and it's not a reflection on my eyesight or awareness at all but of the crap signage that is typically used. e.g. a sign that would be appropriate for a 25 MPH residential intersection being used to indicate a cross street to a major arterial and partially obscured to boot. nate > > I remember from living in Michigan you'd often see signs at the side > > of the road something like "Woodward Ave. Next Signal" or something [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > - Show quoted text - >> > > > Because of their small size and all the street light and commercial >> > > > enterprise glare, street signs are often hard to see at night. This [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >indicate a cross street to a major arterial and partially obscured to >boot. Then there are the nonstandard signs and placement, especially annoying are these signs in Park Ridge, IL: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=NW+HWY,+park+ridge,+IL&sll=37.0 625,-95.677068&sspn=85.041267,92.8125&ie=UTF8&ll=42.034568,-87.852516&spn=0.0210 69,0.029225&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=42.02665,-87.854&cbp=1,5.8266098573116665,,2,7 .508112209633997 Yes, that post is the street sign. this one is one of the more visible. Here's another... http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=NW+HWY,+park+ridge,+IL&sll=37.0 625,-95.677068&sspn=85.041267,92.8125&ie=UTF8&ll=42.034122,-87.850714&spn=0.0210 7,0.029225&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=42.025516,-87.852197&cbp=1,86.71616613630124,,2 ,2.9796186756274152 See it there? :) On Mar 31, 10:27 am, tetraethylleadREMOVET...@yahoo.com (Brent P) wrote: > In article <3a62dc8f-5f04-458a-9c4d-39ed3ad5d...@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, N8N wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > See it there? :) That's pretty funny. There are some similar one in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. At least there, the signs are white posts with blue lettering, which of course is charming unless your lost at night with little light and middle age eyes. |
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