A favourite pet peeve on our region’s roads is the mandatory turn lane which, based on the way it is marked, is actually illegal to move into.
Is it just me or does there seem to be more highway confusion out there these days? By that I mean engineering and placement of all those signs, lines, cones, signals and markers that not only don’t make any sense, but actually create traffic problems instead of solving them.
Another peeve is the conflicting playground zone. At one point there is a yellow and black sign showing a stick figure running with a ball, with another small tab below it reading 30 km/h. Fair enough — it’s a playground. But a few metres later there’s another identical playground sign, this time without the required speed tab — making it a warning sign only. Which one do you believe? Good drivers will obviously apply common sense, but signs placed like this still create needless confusion.
The on-again-off-again bike lane also makes the pet peeve list. They’re the ones where there is a bike lane marker in the roadway that suddenly ends without any notice, but the white-lined shoulder lane never changes. Then the bike lane markers reappear a little further along, this time with all the trappings, such as green-painted warning patches and “Yield to Cyclists” signs — all on the same strip of shoulder that has been there for kilometres.
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