Even Seaside isn't Immune to Ridiculous Signage

Bad signs are everywhere..  Even at Seaside, which is one of the design meccas of America.  I stumbled upon this pic while I was walking around yesterday.

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Stop the Madness: Race to the Bottom

I think there' s a little more room at the bottom of this sign pole for another sign but I'm not sure they could get any crappier than the one they added most recently.. 

With Roswell just being named the 13th safest city in Georgia, I'm not sure how to take all these signs that are popping up everywhere around our parks.  Maybe the signs are what keep us safe and if they are.. we will no doubt the the safest city in Georgia in no time as evidenced below...

Maybe we're not as safe as we think if our city feels the need to plaster the landscape of our parks with bright yellow signs warning that your valuables aren't safe in your car.  

At this point, I think we need a new sign that will pretty much cover everything for the city..

STOP THE MADNESS!!!  Stop cheapening our public realm with wholly unnecessary signs.

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Stop the Madness: This Time I'm Serious

I'm not sure which one came first here but someone obviously wasn't reading the sign.  The Double Sign is definitely one of the most anoying sign types.

Stop the Madness: No Right Turn(s)

Hey, no right turn here...  

Don't make me repeat myself...  

Now you've really gone and done it..

NO RIGHT TURNS HERE..

Seriously guys, this is unnecessary.. there isn't a vantage point where you can't see either one of these signs.  Take down the first one and leave the one next to the light...

But wait.  There's more.  Why can't you make a right turn? Because it's a ONE WAY Street.  So, if you could make the One Way sign more visible, you could negate the need for the two No Right Turn signs.  Hmm..

Stop the Madness: Pedestrian Xing Ahead

Now, I'm all for pedestrian safety.  But this is just overkill!  About 50 feet ahead of the crosswalk there is a sign indicating that there is a pedestrian crossing ahead.  Then, there are two signs at at the pedestrian crossing with little arrows to indicate that the pedestrians actually cross on the ground.  Not sure what to think if the arrows were aimed up.  Presumably, the 'ahead' sign is there because it is at the crest of a hill coming up Oak St to warn approaching cars that there is a pedestrian crossing under the assumption that cars wouldn't be able to see the two signs at the actual crosswalk.  

But, there is NO WAY a driver would miss the TWO signs that are actually at the crossing as evidenced by the second image which is a Google Street View from roughly 300 feet away.

Serously folks!  We need to chill with the unnecessary signs.  It's going to kill the charm we have in our public places.

Stop the Madness: Two Unnecessary Signs

This one is driving me nuts.  Last year, the one way on Plum Street was reversed so that traffic could more easily flow off of Canton St.  That made sense to me.  But these signs don't.  First up, why do you need a one way sign where traffic enters a one way street?  There should be a one way sign at the end where cars exit to alert drivers that you can't turn into that street but putting one where you enter is just adding to the littany of signs cluttering our landscape. Hmmm...  So, the one way sign in this picture is completely unnecessary.  

Second, why in the world would you need a Do Not Enter sign here?  IF, in the off event a car did make it's way to that spot by going the wrong way down Plum St, they certainly SHOULD enter Canton St to get off of Plum St.  If there is an appropriate place for a Do Not Enter sign on a one way street, it would be at the point of entry,  not at the point of exit.  But, there would be no reason for a DNE sign at the entrance if there is already a one way street sign.  That would be redundant... but as we all know... there is no shortage of redundant signs on our roads.

Take these two signs down.  They are completly unnecessary.  

Stop the Madness: Stop 4 Pedestrians x3

On Windward Parkway, they really love their pedestrians.  At least at the Marconi Dr entrance to the Ryder building they do..  First, we have a crosswalk which should be the first indication to anyone driving that a pedestrian has the right of way.  However, drivers obviously don't know the rules of the road any longer so we had to invent the little stand up signs to remind the drivers.  Then

Windward and Marconi Triple Pedestrian Reminder

I'm guessing there was an accident at this spot that influenced the decision to put three signs withn 15 feet of eachother.  It's my opinion that one well placed sign could probably do the trick and the other two could be better used at other parts of the intersection or neighboring intersections.  

Sign Overload: DO NOT.. I Repeat DO NOT Enter

This one annoys me to no end.  If you missed the one way sign because you are coming from the other direction, you aren't going to miss the two DO NOT ENTER signs.  Once again, this is in the heart of our historic district.  Is this really what we want decorating our historic landscape?

Sign Overload: No Left Turn. NO LEFT TURN.

GDOT really really doesn't want you to turn left here.  So much so that they have two signs to tell you so.

This is our historic square folks.  It should be beautiful, peaceful and inviting.  There are numerous other examples of unnecessary clutter in the form of signs and signals that just aren't necessary. 

Who is in charge of removing redundant signs?  

Sign Overload: Bulloch Hall x 2

Can you find the redundant sign?

Okay, so, you may need to look twice but there are literally two signs withn 15 feed of eachother pointing toward Bulloch Hall.  One is your standard historical brown sign and the other is on our wayfinding poles.  The only difference is that the historical sign has "open for tours" on it.  

Do we really need both of these signs?  Really?  Let's take one down and clean up sign clutter around our historic center.  If we really need to have the "open for tours" message, we can just add a tasteful hanging addition below the one on the wayfinding sign.  

Sorry for the glare on the image.