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Australian road warning signs
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Click on the pictures for a larger image.
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1 MILE WINDING ROAD. This old sign seems to have survived metrification. I saw it one day but wasn't able to get a photo (I forget exactly why). So I returned a few days later to find a tree had fallen on it, denting the top. The road, incidentally, was once a railway line.
Athlone, Vic.
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1km WINDING ROAD. Believe it or not, this sign applied to the same section of winding road as the 1 mile sign. I did not notice the winding section being any shorter in this direction though. :)
Metric versions of these text signs are not all that common. The wiggly arrow sign usually takes their place with a 'NEXT ??kms' sign below.
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It is pretty common that a sign is erected upside down or some other orientation when the correct one is not available for some reason. Of course sometimes those putting them up just don't seem to be paying attention either.
This sign was erected when a new road was built and apparently it became the main road. The original road became the side road.
Drouin, Vic.
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….And just a few hundred metres along that side road we find the correct sign on another modified intersection. But the old road here is now closed due to a freeway bisecting it.
Logically it could have been moved to the newer intersection. But the local shire crew came up with the 'much better' idea of spraying out the now non-existent road. Oh well. You have to give them points for originality I guess. Drouin, Vic.
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Modified curve signs showing other roads intersecting with the main one are common enough. But rarely does the other road also have an arrowhead.
The advisory 70km/h speed here is for the curved route. I'd advise going even slower for the straight route.
Drouin, Vic.
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This is the sign facing traffic on that straight route above. Oddly enough, none of the signs on the 3 approaches show the 3rd leg of what is actually a triangular junction. In fact this sign is placed after the other leg branches off.
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What manner of intersection is this? The first 2 signs show a cross road ahead. A short distance past them are 2 different T junction signs of a type I've not seen elsewhere before. Both have the word 'HIGHWAY' written along the top of the 'T'. And both have this applied in a different style.
In fact the intersection is a double cross road. A service road and a highway.
Johnsonville, Vic.
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Close up of the Highway T junction sign on the left of the above photo. Yellow letters on black background.
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Close up of the Highway T junction sign on the right of the aforementioned photo. Black letters on a yellow background.
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Cross road with minor road ahead. Looks like a normal cross road sign except that one leg is narrower than the others.
Stratford, Vic.
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Modified intersection. Another custom (?) sign showing a modified T junction where the side road has become the main route and the former straight through route is now a side road.
Stratford, Vic.
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Custom intersection sign. An unusual intersection that has had special signs made for it. Bushy Park, Vic.
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Unusual re-use of a former left hand bend sign into a right hand bend warning. Note smaller than usual arrowhead.
Cobains, Vic.
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3.2km Winding road. This is an interesting one. Not often you see such a sign with the distance marked so accurately with a decimal point. Pity the road actually ended only 2kms after the sign though. :)
Cobains, Vic.
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1km Winding Road. Winding road???? The land is rather flat as you can see. But for some reason there are 4 right angle bends to take the road around a paddock that perhaps the owners didn't want the road running through decades ago. Rather than put signs at each curve, council seems to have taken the easy way out here.
Bushy Park, Vic.
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Concealed Intersection. Normally concealed intersections have a separate plate with the word "CONCEALED" under a standard T junction sign. This one has the wording combined with the symbol on the one sign.
Warragul, Vic.
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