A little over a week ago, Max and I were driving alone in the car and talking about all of the things that we used to find unusual about Denmark's architecture, daily life, and food, when we realized how normal they all were to us now. I think the conversation suprised us both. At that moment we decided that we need to add these into our Denmark Blog before we forget that they used to be novel.
Lidt over en uge siden, Max og jeg kørte alene i bilen, og snakkede om alt vi har troede var anderledes om Danmarks arkitektur, daglig liv, og mad, når vi bemærkede vor almindelig det alle er nu. jeg synes det var en overraskelse til os begge to. På denne tidpunkt har vi besluttet at vi skulle set det eksempel ind i vores Danmark Blog før vi glemmer at det var forskellige lige after vores flytte.
Today's topic : Stop signs
Idags Emne : Stop Skiltes
Idags Emne : Stop Skiltes
Fact is although they do have stop signs here, we don't see much of them in our daily commute to and from school. What do we see then? The equivalent of a "Yield" sign. We see them at the ends of streets, and in front of round-about's.
Men Fakta er et når de virkelig har stop vej skilte, vi se dem ikke så tit i vores hver dag pendle til og frem skole. Så hvad er det et vi se? Det skilte som behøve mand skal holde tilbage. Vi se dem på vejens ende, og før mand køre ind til rundkørsel.
Many examples of Danish road signs can be found here, but funny enough I haven't found the sign we see most. I will actually have to go out and take a picture and paste it in!
Nogen eksempel af Dansk vejskilte kan mand finde her, men sjovt nok, jeg har ikke fundet skilte vi se mest! Jeg skal faktiskt behøve tar et billede og set den her i!
4 comments:
You mean the triangle sign "ubetinget vigepligt"?
http://www.selectkoreskole.dk/ube20tavle20200%5B1%5D.jpg
Yeps! Classic move on my part! LOL -especially with the direct name translation of FULL STOP! (I will have to have a talk with my sources!) Sooo, can you explain the round-about merge into traffic? OR the absence of drivers making complete stops at these junctions? And the difference btwn those signs and the actual Stop signs? HELP! :) Thanks!
With the triangle sign "ubetinget vigepligt" you have to stop for all crossing traffic coming from both left and right. But if there's no traffic you don't have to make a full stop, which is the difference to a full stop sign.
With the full stop sign, you always have to make a full stop where the car stnads completely still before crossing, regardless if there's any oncoming crossing traffic or not. Full stop signs are usually only used in dangerous crossings where there's low visability to the sides and/or high speed traffic. It's considered a very serious traffic offence if the car is not put to a stand still before crossing at a full stop sign and I think you can loose your drives license if you don't make a full stop.
But Denmark is implementing more and more roundsabouts, especially where there's dangerous crossings.
Roundabouts have proved to be much safer than regular crosssings and recudes the number of serious traffic accidents a lot.
Roundabouts can also make it easier to enter very high traffic roads where there's constant traffic. But the main reason for implementing roundabaouts is traffic safety.
Thanks so much for the clarification Pete!
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