Highway signage problems

[L210]

Originally Posted by majormadmax

Wouldn't matter, you could paint them DOT orange and make then ten feet tall, and drivers in SA still wouldn't notice!

People drive around here oblivious to road signs, arrows on the road, other vehicles, etc...

I agree. I'm glad they changed the Nacogdoches and 410 exit going east because people would just ignore all the signs until the last minute where they noticed the lane was going to take them off the highway.

[TexHwyMan]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Is paint so expensive in San Antonio that they can't paint an extra arrow on the street far enough back so people can see whether that lane is turning or not.

I agree that lane assignments could be better marked, both with lane markings as well as better signage. But I also agree with MM:

Originally Posted by majormadmax

Wouldn't matter, you could paint them DOT orange and make then ten feet tall, and drivers in SA still wouldn't notice!

People drive around here oblivious to road signs, arrows on the road, other vehicles, etc...

[SanAntonio117]

1604 and Culebra needs a yield sign bad, people on the access road think they are still on 151 and never yield to the offramp.

[Merovee]

More signs might not help.

"We assume the safety is the result of 'forgiving' roads," says Eric Dumbaugh, a civil and environmental engineer at Texas A&M University. "We figure straightening out streets and widening shoulders make a road safe."

The problem is that our instincts are completely wrong. When roads look more perilous, drivers exert more care and the motorways become safer. "If you build something that looks like a highway, every instinct in a driver's body tells him to go fast," says Ian Lockwood, a traffic engineer in Orlando. In the last decade or so, a few iconoclasts have begun making streets more hazardous - narrowing them, reducing visibility, and removing curbs, center lines, guardrails, and even traffic signs and signals. These roads, research shows, are home to significantly fewer crashes and traffic fatalities.

When Latton, a British town, removed the center dividing line from its roads, average car speed dropped by 8 mph. A Danish city redesigned a major intersection, adding a traffic circle and fountains, narrowing roads, and reducing signs and signals. The result? Injuries at the spot have fallen from eight per year to just one.

Anthes, Emily. "Street Smarts." Psychology Today December 2010: 42.