Road closures and other fun

[Catwoman2965]

This isn't a true SC story, but I think it fits here. My building is on a street that is a leads out to one of main roads in the area. (County highway) - so a lot of traffic comes from one direction, and consists of people trying to get to the highway.
We have two driveways to the building, one on either side. Just past the one on the right, is a bridge, which is currently being completely rebuilt, and shuld take about 6 months. So the road is closed, and in fact, the one driveway closest to the bridge is also closed off. No on can get through, so we all need to make a big loop around the block, and get onto the highway from another point. Not a huge deal, but a bit of a PITA.

At the other end of the street, where it ends, there is a SIGN that says bridge out, local traffic only....but do you think that's stopped everyone from coming down the road, seeing that its CLOSED, and turning around? And the closest place to turn around? the driveway of MY building! The day they closed off the road, we stood at the window and watched car after car come down, stop, hesitate, then turn around, and go back the way they came.

Are people really that stupid, or do they think that the sign and the road closure just doesn't apply to them? I personally think the sign should also say "no access to Route X", but that would make sense, wouldn't it? Its also annoying to us trying to enter or exit, and having someone make a u-turn right in front of you, without looking!

[Aethian]

People don't read signs period sometimes. Kinda like the lady around Mom's place about ten years ago who refused to believe a sign that said local traffic only, bridge out. She didn't believe it and got her car stuck in the ditch that the bridge spanned. Of course then it was the counties fault and not hers. Cause ya know...they made the sign to complicated or something.

[elsporko]

The downtown in my town is closed and a normally one way street is now a two way. For the first few months I almost always drove down the closed road just out of habit.

[Nohbody]

People don't read signs period sometimes.

You could drop "sometimes" for a lossless compression of data, you know.

[Rapscallion]

More of a roadkill thread.

Rapscallion

[Midnight12]

I understand your frustration. Currently dealing with construction on the main road which the road to my house comes from which makes it kind of a detour. This would be fine but this road also curves around the corner, that corner being around our property.
I don't mind the through traffic as the main road is being expanded its that we get the morning, lunch and evening rush through here and some people who take the route daily forget that the road curves. So lately we have tire marks on our freshly mowed lawn.

[Andara Bledin]

Put in a steel & concrete post. Put it at the outermost corner of your property. Paint it in bright yellow-black stripes to make sure people can see it.

I guarantee that it won't take long before you stop seeing tire tracks on your lawn, although you might end up with the random bumper every now and then...

^-.-^

[drunkenwildmage]

On offmy co-workers lives on a uncurbed street and had issues with people driving up into their lawn. They put in 3 fraking huge boulders in the lawn along the road. No to long afterwords she noticed one of them pushed back a couple feet, and alot of paint scrapings. When she left for work the next morning, she saw that one of her neighbor's cars had fresh scratches on the ride side of it, and that the color of the car matched the paint on the boulder.