This wildfire has led to a mass cancellation of trains going through Birmingham Snow Hill. This represents the loss of about a third of the West Midlands Railway network.

This sign original? She looks rather worse for wear. PS: I had to delete and repost due to Bluesky not processing the picture.

I've seen some assertions that that the M65 was planned to be one of three Trans-Pennine motorways (The M62 and the M67 being the other two) but beyond the @roads.org.uk and Pathetic Motorways pages I've found very little evidence for this beyond a short-lived plan for an 'M650' in the Aire Valley.

@showmeasign.online The M65 a bit of a weird motorway, isn't it? It seemingly exists for no apparent reason, connecting a number of (in the grand scheme) small towns in the Calder Valley to Preston. There's a lot of major cities that don't get that type of high tier road building.

@showmeasign.online Another Streetview special. A rather derpy looking ADS on the A75 at Gretna. I suspect that if one were to peel of the (A74(M)) patch, it might reveal (M6) underneath.

@showmeasign.online I found this sign at the French-German border. It looks old.

AI images aside. Someone did make a Garry's Mod map dedicated to the Reflecting Pool.

Looks like I didn't need to wait until 2029, its happening now. We are forecast to approach the 40°C threshold again.

I'd hate to reawaken this old thread but I made this mock-up of a British €1 a couple of years ago.

Oh it gets worse.. The #worldcup final is being held at the MetLife Stadium, one of the most physically hostile places I've ever seen. There is literally no way to get from the hotels to the stadium without driving, to the point where said hotels were telling guests that walking was illegal.

Is there any particular reason the MP for Clacton is in my hometown?

Here's a bit of stupidness and I can only assume its because of the #OnlineSafetyAct. So as a PSA; if you use Imgur as an external image host on your website, it will get blocked in the UK and replaced with "Content not viewable in your region" regardless of what the original content was.

He sent me this picture. This is PRECISELY what he'd feared as that's a #RaisingTheColours banner.

...and finally, there are the oddities. Things that are weird or don't fit into the above three families. Artistically designed signs, red permanently mounted pedestrian signs, signs that use metric and city centre totems that use maps instead of discrete destinations.

The third type is an older type (some carry identifiers for the BCNS) that are black & white, with distances in miles. I suspect they are more likely to be oriented to boating rather than land-based active travel because they include information such as the number of locks needed to navigate.

The second type are also blue & white and appears to be designed based on the TSRGD, using the Transport font, TSM type pictograms, distances in miles and fully incorporating NCN route numbers where present.

The first type of canalside signage are the white on blue Canal and River Trust 'in house' type. They measure distance in terms of time taken to walk. This style does acknowledge the NCN Routes, but not consistently. This type also identifies the location in a small circle at the top of the pole.

At the risk of starting a fire in the comments; I personally consider Lincolnshire to be in the Midlands.

From what I can find, the A86 is definitely not part of Paris's clean air zones. As you said that's likely not the reason for the weird signage policy, maybe they want to have ring roads as a distinct class (á la Belgium or South Australia) but for some reason they can't actually have 'R' routes.

7) Route A4 (or is it B4?), between Ghan and Uluru, NT. The signage on the Lassetter Highway can't seem to agree on what letter prefix to use, some say A4, others say B4, and some, rather maddeningly still show blue shields. The adjoining Luritja Road is also bizarrely signed, showing A3 and B3.

6) Routes A1 and A87 in Birdum, NT. Not really a one off number but a rather significant signage error. Some signs at the A1/A87 intersection variously show all three arms of the junction as either A1 or A87.

Time to resurrect this old thing. 5) Alternative Route A2 in Winton, Queensland. Turns out Charleville wasn't the only instance of an alphanumeric Alt route being used, Winton also has one, also on the A2. I missed this one due to it not showing on Google Maps but it is fully signed on the ground.

I'm very fed up with this dystopian shite. Aliens, you know where to find me.

I would but it appears to have been suspended.

Fascinating. Was the Port Talbot Bypass still the A48(M) in 1976?

I say that but there's one suburb in the Netherlands that recreated the banknote bridges for real. Some look good but for some they look a bit squashed, esp the €500 Bridge.

Not to mention the infamous "Breaking Point" poster, courtesy of UKIP that was very clearly intended to be racist anti-EU propaganda. Especially in the context of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean at the time.

You sure about that? Vote Leave was putting up billboards, leaflets and social media posts all claiming that Türkiye was imminently joining the EU (example pictured), that's definitely a racist anti-immigration message to me.