I remember a road sign that was on a two lane highway offramp. It only had the three words on it - "USE BOTH LANES".
I always drove down the middle of both lanes -- using both lanes - as instructed by the road sign.
Has anybody else ever seen this sign, and wondered if they could have worded it a little better.
I have never seen such a sign...but if I did see one, I'd probably do as you did. I suppose we'll see if anyone else has seen it. If they haven't, then maybe you just imagined it 
LOL. I can't remember specifically seeing that sign, but I would have interpreted it the opposite way. I would assume that the dept of transportation was telling drivers to NOT create one lane by driving down the middle of the road, but instead to use one lane or another. That interpretation would seem to match up with the intent of having two lanes marked on the exit.
| HoboPelican wrote: |
| LOL. I can't remember specifically seeing that sign, but I would have interpreted it the opposite way. I would assume that the dept of transportation was telling drivers to NOT create one lane by driving down the middle of the road, but instead to use one lane or another. That interpretation would seem to match up with the intent of having two lanes marked on the exit. |
That would be my guess as well. My assumption would be that they were trying to alert drivers that it is, in fact, a two lane ramp and that there should be two lanes, not one. Then again, I don't drive, so I could be totally wrong.I pass a sign that syas this almost every day. Just to warn drivers not to hog just one lane, at busy times you can use both.
The best sign I ever saw was in the 80's when speed bumps first appeared, they were then called sleeping bpolicemen or a padestrien hump. The sign said "PADESTRIAN HUMPS IN ROAD"
I always thought that padestrian was living life to the max!
| Captain Fertile wrote: |
I pass a sign that syas this almost every day. Just to warn drivers not to hog just one lane, at busy times you can use both.
The best sign I ever saw was in the 80's when speed bumps first appeared, they were then called sleeping bpolicemen or a padestrien hump. The sign said "PADESTRIAN HUMPS IN ROAD"
I always thought that padestrian was living life to the max! |
I hear the Beatles now "...why don't we do it in the road? no one will be watching us, why don't we do it in the road? ..." | Captain Fertile wrote: |
...The sign said "PADESTRIAN HUMPS IN ROAD"
I always thought that padestrian was living life to the max! |
LOL. My best friend lives in a neighborhood with signs everywhere saying "Speed Humps". I chuckle every time I visit thinking of all those quickies being had.
But I am glad to see others interpreting that both lane sign the way I did. It amazes me the different way people think about driving. I know two people who get really upset when in a parking lot, someone waves them to go ahead. I see it as being polite and clear, they see it as the other driver being controlling 
These are good, intelligent drivers, but they just see things different.I love the UK where we have "Striped Zebra Crossings". Zebra crossings are where pedestrians can cross & the cars HAVE to stop, but not knowing that, one would think we were in the middle of a safari! For those interested in viewing other funny road signs, I stumbled upon this website: http://www.stopandgo.org/gallery/traffic-signs-2005/
They had an image of "Use Both Lanes to Merge Point", but that is not the same sign that I saw. I believe that it was one of those yellow diamond signs (used for famous "Falling Rock" sign).
"WATCH YOUR MIRRORS ON BOTH SIDES" - don't we have to have these signs approved by some Dept. of Transportation or something?! About traffic signs - are there any speed limit signs ending not in a 5 or 0? Lol.
They have them signs in the UK as well, usually where there is a lane closure approaching and to remind drivers to use the second lane right up to the end.
Seen them leaving the motorway at leicester, except there it said use left lane for leicester, even know its a right turn.
I almost laughed myself into a ditch when I first saw this roadsign while driving.
(yes it is a real roadsign here in the UK and I pass it all the time all over the place) | Agent ME wrote: |
| About traffic signs - are there any speed limit signs ending not in a 5 or 0? Lol. |
I've seen one (on a private road, of course not on a public highway) that set the speed limit at 27mph. It is very rare, though.I haven't seen that sign (to my knowledge), but here's a weird group of signs:
Caption: Where the hell am I going? use both lanes...
i seen this.. and i dont think it means drive in the middle 
i think it is making you aware that you can use either of the 2 lanes to drive in... I would love to see if the case could hold up in a court of law.
DRIVER: ...uhh... what seems to be the problem, Officer?
OFFICER: A simple moving violation. You were using both lanes of this off-ramp here!
DRIVER: ... and the sign told me to do exactly that, it read "use BOTH lanes", so I used both lanes.
I really almost always drove down the middle of this specific off ramp - hoping that one day I would be pulled over for it, but alas it never happened and they have replaced the sign with something that is less ambiguous.
never seen such road sign before. But if I see such road sign, i will just ignore it...... 
I haven't seen that particular sign before, but I have seen a lot of silly signs before.
This topic gave me a great idea, I searched 'silly signs' and 'silly road signs' on Google images and got quite a lot of funny ones.
Take a look this:
This:
And this:
I also found this page, which I thought was quite good - take a look.
I thought all of those were pretty funny, some made me laugh out loud. 
You wonder who's making these things, and how many quality checks they have.
