• Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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    6 months ago

    European bike lanes (like this one should probably depict) are round and solid blue with a bike depicted on them.

    bike lane

    In Europe, lanes, where biking is prohibited are denoted by a round white sign with a relative wide red border (circle) and a bike depicted at its center.

    biking prohibited

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      6 months ago

      if I didn’t already know better, i would have interpreted these two signs to be synonymous.

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          6 months ago

          Neither is more intuitive, it’s just what you’re used to, culturally. Europeans could equally go to America, see a white sign with black symbol and red border and remark upon learning that it indicates a bike lane ‘That’s just not intuitive’.

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      6 months ago

      Is there a problem having a little line through the thing you’re not supposed to do?

      /American (sorry) question

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      6 months ago

      I feel like a single line through would have been the correct design choice, still, because in practically every other context, that’s what’s used (no smoking signs, for example).

      Seems like many, many other places around the world put a line through for road signs (though a couple outside Europe don’t, and even some inside Europe do): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_traffic_sign

      My 2¢, Europe is wrong on this one, despite being right on so much else haha

      • skisnow@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        A line obscures the thing it’s trying to explain. Visually noisy, hard to read.