Passed two of the new overhead gantry signs on the M4 tonight with '60 - Queue' and then '40 - Queue'displayed. There was no sign of a queue, and the following signs had no message, so I 'phoned up the Highways Agency (on the hands-free). The operator explained that a 'Queue', together with a slower speed, display is triggered when the traffic sensors in the road (so that's what the black diamonds, often with an accompanying photo-electric panel on the verge, are!) ahead detect slowing traffic. This is to avoid bunching (presumably like the M25 signs), and so, of course, if you don't actually encounter the queue, then they weren't incorrect messages, they must have worked...!
Difficult to argue that one, though the traffic was very light tonight and anything slow would have been simply overtaken...
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I have a sign up outside my house that says "no vegetarian tigers"
It must work, because a vegetarian tiger has never knocked on my door.
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Life is complex; it has real and imaginary parts.
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I have a sign up outside my house that says "no vegetarian tigers" It must work, because a vegetarian tiger has never knocked on my door.
If this is a motorway sign, I assume your house is alongside a motorway!
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L\'escargot.
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The signs between junctions 11 and 12 clockwise on the M25 where the 4 lane section returns to 3 are now permanently set at 60 whatever the traffic flow.
I ignore any lane closure signs on the M40 after spending hours in miles long queues only to reach an all clear sign with no obstruction in between.
Signs installed at huge cost and now ignored because of the incompetence of their operation.
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I have a sign up outside my house that says "no vegetarian tigers" It must work, because a vegetarian tiger has never knocked on my door.
Vegitarian Tigers, is that like Spearmint Rhinos?
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