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Apart from what some commenters already pointed out (about the orientation of the roads there), I’m not sure how it’s going in the US, but in Europe, we have a hierarchy, where the sign on a pole takes precedence over the sign painted on the road.

The hierarchy is:

Police officers hand signs
Traffic lights
Signs on a pole
Signs painted on the road

Is there such a thing in the US?

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GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Is there such a thing in the US?

Yeah.

Whatever the heck I want, because "ma freedom"

Police officer’s hand signs

Traffic lights

Signs on a pole

Signs painted on the road
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bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

in Europe, we have a hierarchy

This is definitely not true for all of Europe. In Germany, for instance, signs on roads have equal precedence to signs on poles.

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- shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What do you do if they contradict?
  
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  - bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sit there untill either the sign or the paint fade away
    
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    JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Here in Finland we just wait for snow, then you can’t see the painted one.
    
    Which is why it was such a great idea to replace our solid “you can’t pass here” lines from their old bright yellow to EU matching white so that that self driving cars understand them correctly. Which during the winter means both of us or the machines can’t see shit.
    
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  - bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s the neat part: They don’t. At least I have never seen confusing signage/markings.
    
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    shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You sure have a lot of faith in people.
    
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MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lately the trend is for temporary signs to have yellow background instead of white. So if you see road construction you’ll see a yellow background sign.

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- HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Orange you sure that construction signs shouldn’t be a different color?
  
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  - MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes, not yellow, not sure what I was talking about.
    
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- Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh, I was always told the yellow signs are suggestions
  
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  - icedterminal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yellow signs are suggestions or warnings. Always have been. Construction (temporary) are orange. As seen in the OP.
    
    When it comes to what order on how you should follow them:
    
    Orange
    
    White
    
    Yellow
    
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  - MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They are I just said the wrong color.
    
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