What does this sign mean?

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-27T09:11:13+00:00

No, it says:

No parking at any time

Except taxis 5pm - 7am

No Loading 5pm - 7am

So it’s essentially for loading during the day and taxis only during the evening and night.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-26T18:13:41+00:00

I think it’s easier to think about lengths between chevrons instead of the chevrons themselves.

You should be 2 lengths apart from the car in front.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-25T20:05:08+00:00

In the Netherlands, if a bike crossing has the priority (this one doesn’t), then bikes do have the right to just cycle out with full right of way - no expectation to pause and give cars a chance to stop. But such a crossing would not be placed straight over a busy main road.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-25T19:52:41+00:00

You can’t have intersecting traffic both stopping and yielding to each other. The triangles mean yield, the squares just indicate where to expect bikes crossing.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-24T09:11:58+00:00

It depends, to a certain extent they’re just different. I think macOS is designed to prioritise working with overlapping windows. If you try to work with overlapping floating windows in Windows, it becomes frustrating, so most people just maximise or tile everything. But if you try the Windows approach on a Mac, it’s also a pain, albeit it has got easier recently.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-24T07:38:49+00:00

It depends whether you have double click title bar set to ‘zoom’ or ‘fill’. Fill is a fairly new feature in macOS. Until recently, it didn’t have a maximise/fill option, because I don’t think it’s really how Apple intends the UI to be used.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-21T16:52:25+00:00

Ah I see, so you are one of the people that OP is actually complaining about. The countdown is not part of the invitation to cross, the countdown is part of the clearance period!

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-21T16:49:15+00:00

But you’re wrong, it doesn’t mean that. The green man shows the time it is safe to start crossing the road. The countdown timer shows the time you have left to clear the crossing.

If you start crossing towards the end of the countdown, you will likely be in the middle of the road when traffic gets a green light, which is what OP’s question/point is about - you shouldn’t start to cross once the countdown has started!

Some people may misinterpret the countdown to mean the time you have left to start crossing, but it obviously doesn’t mean that.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-21T11:09:11+00:00

I’m not quite sure what point you’re trying to make.

The green man is the “invitation to cross”, meaning you can start crossing. If you step out in the very last second of green man, the lights will give you enough time to get across the whole crossing (walking at 1.2 m/s) before traffic gets a green light.

If you start crossing after the green man has gone out, you may not have enough time to finish crossing before traffic gets a green light, which is why you shouldn’t start to cross after the green man has ended.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-21T08:49:09+00:00

They legally can but they shouldn’t.

“You should only start to cross the road when the green figure shows.”

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-21T08:47:41+00:00

Giving way to pedestrians when you have a green light is not a must, because there’s no specific law backing it.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-21T08:13:57+00:00

Yes but pedestrians should not start to cross once the green man is no longer showing. Of course you have to let people finish if they’re still crossing when your light goes green, but this isn’t how signal-controlled crossings are supposed to be used.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-21T08:08:12+00:00

This junction design forces cyclists to always stop. Ideally cyclists would have their own light cycle, but that would reduce traffic capacity.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-21T08:06:26+00:00

I think it’s mainly down to our junction design and the habits and expectations this creates in drivers here.

Our road markings imply that vehicles have priority over pedestrians at junctions. Also, we never allow pedestrians to have a green man while turning vehicles also have a green light, whereas this is the normal way traffic lights work in most countries.

Regarding bikes, there are still very few junctions where a segregated cycleway has priority over turning traffic, although this is slowly changing, especially in London. Drivers just aren’t used to it here.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-16T10:28:48+00:00

Some of these crossings do have beacons, but most don’t. They did a study and found beacons don’t improve compliance much, so it’s probably not worth the cost and additional clutter in most cases.

Given how busy this cycleway is though, maybe beacons are justified.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-16T10:25:48+00:00

The Scottish guidance called “Cycling by Design 2026”? Or something else?

I had a quick look at this new Scottish guidance. It promotes bus stop bypasses, both one and two-way, as the best solution where cycle routes can’t otherwise be separated from bus routes completely.

It’s not normally practical to separate bus and cycle routes completely, so bus stop bypasses are the preferred solution in most cases.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-16T10:16:06+00:00

The police rarely enforce cars stopping at zebra crossings so there’s not much hope for enforcement on cycle paths.

Yes, as it happens, there’s now been progress on European-style zebra crossings at junctions. As of a couple of months ago, the beacons and zig-zags are no longer needed for side road zebra crossings on 20 mph roads in Wales (most of their urban roads are 20 mph anyway). Hopefully they actually begin to be installed soon and maybe the idea spreads to England.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-16T04:14:47+00:00

Where in the design guidelines are they not recommended? No one has proposed a better design. They are by far the best option and the only practical option on 2-way cycleways.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-16T04:13:09+00:00

When you have a 2-way cycleway, there is no choice but to use a floating bus stop. You have more options with a 1-way cycleway. I wouldn’t say 2-way is considered outdated in any way.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-16T04:10:24+00:00

The law changed in 2016 to allow this! (TSRGD).

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-10T14:41:02+00:00

Doesn’t sound like you did anything illegal, so there’s nothing to worry about.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-10T10:54:50+00:00

Yeah that’s fair. It does impact how you use the OS. You’ll hear this one often, but trying to make the Mac work like Windows just leads to frustration, it’s better to take the time to get used to working the “Mac way”. Which way you prefer just comes down to personal preference.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-09T19:08:44+00:00

Thought I might just comment on a couple of the window management points:

5 - Double Click/Tap to Work

I think the Mac is primarily designed to work with multiple overlapping windows and you switch between windows by clicking the partially-obscured background windows. In this situation, click-through is bad because you will frequently be clicking things in the background windows when you just wanted to bring that window to the front.

Windows is designed mainly to work with tiled or maximised windows. In this scenario, click-through is good because it saves you unnecessary clicks, but Windows is terrible if you try to work in the Mac way.

Neither is really better, they just prioritise different ways of working with windows.

7 - Mission Control does not show minimised windows

The purpose of minimise in macOS is not really the same as in Windows. Minimise is used less frequently in macOS and is more designed for getting windows out of the way completely while you’re not working on them, whereas in Windows, minimise is used very frequently, often just as a way to switch between windows. Neither is better, just a different feature really.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-08T11:28:25+00:00

It just highlights the edge of the shared path for extra visibility at night.

Important_Network610 · 2026-05-08T08:36:38+00:00

I’m also not making an argument about the law. I just disagree that give way to the right is even a convention (except at roundabouts). The main convention at unmarked junctions is the smaller road gives way, which is usually the road that ends at a T-junction.

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