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by cjfd 987 days ago
I am sure that people who design roads worry about distracting drivers with too many signs. In any case, when one sees five road signs in twenty meters of road, one is lucky if one of them registers. It is very unfortunate when similar worry does not occur with too many comments. It is quite possible to completely clutter out of view anything meaningful by writing too many comments.
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> I am sure that people who design roads worry about distracting drivers with too many signs

I wish this was the case where I live.

You want, as a driver, the roads to be boring, as you are probably much better at recognizing patterns than reading signs.

But no, in Germany, they are busy optimizing for something I'm yet to discover (neither flow nor security, that I'm sure of) and every !! city is a new adventure with 1000 signs every corner.