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Re: Kinda funny
You know, that airport cutoff on Moanalua Freeway has always bugged me. They improved it somewhat by adding slanted arrows to the overhead signs and a few forking arrows to the roadway (here's the old way), but you still need only watch the area for a few minutes before you'll see a tourist suddenly panic and fly across the highway to make that offramp.
I keep thinking that all they have to do is paint some airplane silhouettes in the two rightmost lanes starting a quarter mile back. Forget all that reading... everyone should understand what an airplane means.
Actually, some of those make sense to me, because some of our intersections are weirdly shaped or too wide to take in with one glance. You might otherwise think to stop below or at where the traffic lights are, but that would actually put you in the middle of the intersection. The Kapiolani/Atkinson/Kalakaua area (already a madhouse) might have these, for example, or the Kapiolani/Date/Kamoku/Kaaloa five-way.
Of course, too many signs can be confusing, too, even if they're all correct. I remember I used to always be confused by "Turn Here" signs on the Big Island, which I presume were put in place to help you know which side of a median or large traffic island to drive on. But I swear, sometimes I'd spot those signs halfway into a turn, and for a second my brain would panic at the new instruction - consistent with reality and common sense or otherwise.
You know, that airport cutoff on Moanalua Freeway has always bugged me. They improved it somewhat by adding slanted arrows to the overhead signs and a few forking arrows to the roadway (here's the old way), but you still need only watch the area for a few minutes before you'll see a tourist suddenly panic and fly across the highway to make that offramp.
I keep thinking that all they have to do is paint some airplane silhouettes in the two rightmost lanes starting a quarter mile back. Forget all that reading... everyone should understand what an airplane means.
Originally posted by cezanne
Of course, too many signs can be confusing, too, even if they're all correct. I remember I used to always be confused by "Turn Here" signs on the Big Island, which I presume were put in place to help you know which side of a median or large traffic island to drive on. But I swear, sometimes I'd spot those signs halfway into a turn, and for a second my brain would panic at the new instruction - consistent with reality and common sense or otherwise.
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