Metric Madness

[Keith Nichols]

At the top of the hill the sign may say 10% so

The sign at the bottom of the hill for people about to go up the hill it should say -10% then

or vice versa of course

L

Len,
Almost!

In the UK there are signs for steep hills are a red warning triangle with a black triangle inside that slopes down to the right, indicating steep hill downwards and the opposite indicating a steep hill upwards (a triangle sloping up from the right). Of course, you are likely to know what you are facing from the road itself.

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/signs05.htm

 

[Len Boorman]

Len,
Almost!

In the UK there are signs for steep hills are a red warning triangle with a black triangle inside that slopes down to the right, indicating steep hill downwards and the opposite indicating a steep hill upwards (a triangle sloping up from the right). Of course, you are likely to know what you are facing from the road itself.

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/signs05.htm

So do we have both at a hill. Triangles and % signs.?. Which is legal ?.

L

 

[Matt Greatorex]

Apologies to all those in whom I have planted a false idea. The original explanation given is correct:

Apology graciously accepted.

I knew if I kept guessing, I'd get something right, sooner or later.

 

[Rich]

I knew if I kept guessing, I'd get something right, sooner or later.

That just about sums up the attitude of most motorists here when confronted by said road signs

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I always preferred the 'Cajun' method.

If I've got to look up, it's a hill.

If I've got to look down, it's a bayou.

If I can look straight ahead, I'm not in Louisiana, because we HAVE no straight-ahead roads.

 

[Keith Nichols]

So do we have both at a hill. Triangles and % signs.?. Which is legal ?.

L

From the highway code site it appears that both % and 1 in x nomlecatures are acceptable.

I think this is backward compatability and all new signs will be in percentage with some old sinage in obscure places still giving the 1 in 10 or whatever.

It is certainly a very longh time since I saw a 1 in x sign but I wouldn't be surprised to find one in remote rural North of Scotland for instance, if I were ever to venture up that way again. They still have single track roads with passing places up there!

 

[Rich]

They still have single track roads with passing places up there!

They still have them down here too, it's a battle of wits as to who ends up in the space though

 

[Len Boorman]

They still have them down here too, it's a battle of wits as to who ends up in the space though

It's called the M25

 

[Rich]

It's called the M25

No, that's a car park

 

[FoFa]

No, that's a car park

They name your parking areas?

 

[Matt Greatorex]

They name your parking areas?

You'd have to drive on it. Then you'd get the joke

 

[Rich]

Then you'd get the joke

Americans don't do jokes, do they

 

[Keith Nichols]

They still have them down here too, it's a battle of wits as to who ends up in the space though

Rich,
If I remeber my bible correctly, the Land of Nod is located to the east of Eden and is where Cain went to lie low after doing the dirty deed on Able.

I thought it would have developed more since then Is it a nice place now?

 

[BarryMK]

Am I unique? When I get to a hill, be it up or down from where I am, I can usually determine its steepness by looking at it and drawing my own conclusion. If we get any more bloody road signs in this country there'll be nowhere left to stick them except up Blair and Brown's exhaust pipes.

 

[statsman]

Americans don't do jokes, do they

They just elect them.

 

[Rich]

They just elect them.

With a little help from a brother and some bent judges