tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73972665524146348682024-02-21T04:53:04.090+01:00Verboden toegangDirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397266552414634868.post-69729610136696083602011-10-22T12:02:00.000+02:002011-10-22T12:12:15.658+02:00AmsterdamNormally, this blog is not for silly signs. Today is an exception. As part of an experiment, these ‘Wait for green!’ signs have been put up at traffic lights in Amsterdam. Cyclist organisation Fietsersbond explains what they’re about and how to get rid of them.
Tests with different designs have been going on for some time. This photo was taken in May last year:
Dirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397266552414634868.post-40767653190247298132011-10-09T10:32:00.000+02:002011-10-09T10:32:41.278+02:00Moskva ExpressNot sure what this one says exactly. My guess is something along the lines of ‘Attention please! The train’s electronical equipment is not suitable for charging phones. Train staff cannot be held responsible for ruined phones.” Perhaps not a very credible threat, but it works for me.
And this is what you can use the outlet for:
Don’t jump off the platform – Dangerous!
Don’t stand on the Dirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397266552414634868.post-5730671073960351792011-10-02T15:24:00.001+02:002011-10-09T16:22:25.321+02:00Berlin
Who killed Bambi!?
Multiculturalism is alive & kicking in Neukölln:
Diversion for women & children:
Dirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397266552414634868.post-87306633271167306172011-09-02T20:46:00.002+02:002011-09-02T20:49:50.110+02:00Washington DC, January 2011
DC wants to be a bicycle-friendly city - but not necessarily for speeding cyclists in the immediate vicinity of Congress:
No, don’t argue:
You guessed right. The image below is in one of the most gentrified areas of the city:
This makes sense:
Dirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397266552414634868.post-36785462991987771112011-08-13T15:08:00.000+02:002011-08-13T15:08:30.690+02:00Budapest 2008Dirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397266552414634868.post-36863661600452733362011-08-06T14:46:00.001+02:002011-08-06T14:48:02.504+02:00Amsterdam 2007In a first violation of the principle that this blog is about signs from abroad, here are some old ones from Amsterdam.Splashing water. Sign at the Hogesluis Bridge which used to be cooled on hot days by hosing water on it. The bridge is now being renovated
This one stood at a construction site at Sloterdijk for months if not years. They must have brought it from Belgium.
The famous Dirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397266552414634868.post-23313587899521346332011-07-31T11:55:00.006+02:002011-08-02T10:11:19.401+02:00Ardennes, south of LiegeJuly 2011 - People are very friendly here, but you wouldn't tell by the signs. You stumble over signs telling people to keep out - some adding a threat of live ammo, ‘very dangerous traps’ and/or poison.
There are also quite a few signs telling motorists to beware of playing children. The children on some of the signs are somewhat reminiscent of Suske en Wiske.
Detail of a sign Dirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7397266552414634868.post-55570486065296431122011-07-30T20:55:00.009+02:002011-07-30T23:12:30.541+02:00Maastricht - Ardennes vvJuly 2011 - Mostly along the excellent RAVeL cycling and walking route, with its many cute little signs. Despite the Wallonian taste for défense this, interdit that signs, cyclists are allowed on areas closed to most other road users by the port authority. And if there is a terrain they’re not allowed on, elaborate signs will tell them how to get round it.
Interruptions of the path Dirkkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10796245089968269275noreply@blogger.com0