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Subject:Re: Number of warnings From:sandyinchina <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:05:10 +0800
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote:
> A study of highway signs....
>
> I don't often see new highway sign designs, but here are two seen in the
> past 5-10 years:
Best I've seen was some small town in Eastern Canada. You're at highway
speed, cresting a small rise, ahead there's a fairly long straight downhill
stretch, then town.
"Please drive carefully. We have no hospital."
In the Middle East, it is fairly common to see horribly crashed cars put up
on pedestals, presumably as a warning to other drivers.
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Quanzhou, Fujian, China
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