wh500special 2,073 #1 Posted October 29, 2023 I saw this today by my daughter’s high school in St. Louis. As if this isn’t enough, there is another instructing 29 mph around the bend from this one. I thought perhaps they correspond to some nice round number in kilometers per hour, but nope. Weird. Steve 4 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
c-series don 7,902 #2 Posted October 29, 2023 I think what that did was serve its intended purpose of getting your attention! 10 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wallfish 16,038 #3 Posted October 29, 2023 (edited) There was an old beat up sign years back I saw. 19 MPH and thought the same thing. How oddly specific but it looked old enough for model Ts. It was on a small pot hole ridden road behind the A&P supermarket down on Long Island. Oddly remember that because I wanted to take it but didn't. Edited October 29, 2023 by wallfish 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 24,302 #4 Posted October 29, 2023 8 hours ago, c-series don said: I think what that did was serve its intended purpose of getting your attention! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ebinmaine 63,532 #6 Posted October 29, 2023 10 hours ago, c-series don said: I think what that did was serve its intended purpose of getting your attention! Exactly. I've seen a good many of that type sign on private property like a campground while delivering local here. Never on a Public Way though. I like it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 60,184 #7 Posted October 29, 2023 The local casino (that I don’t gamble at, or any of them for that matter), has 21 mph speed limits. That’s gambling age… 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 52,229 #8 Posted October 29, 2023 12 hours ago, wh500special said: saw this today FIXED IT FOR YOU! 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 10,757 #9 Posted October 29, 2023 8 hours ago, Ed Kennell said: Subtle. The sign just before this maybe read “Route 9¾”? 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C-85 654 #10 Posted October 29, 2023 Adrian Monk would be outraged by this, should have at least been even numbers! C-85 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wh500special 2,073 #11 Posted October 30, 2023 5 hours ago, Handy Don said: Subtle. The sign just before this maybe read “Route 9¾”? No, I think it’s the road to the Harry Potter train station… 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handy Don 10,757 #12 Posted October 30, 2023 15 hours ago, wh500special said: No, I think it’s the road to the Harry Potter train station… Yep, I knew there was at least one person who’d catch that! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EB-80/8inPA 1,527 #13 Posted October 30, 2023 On 10/29/2023 at 7:15 AM, Ed Kennell said: “BEWARE OF SIGNS” lolz 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dcrage 621 #14 Posted November 3, 2023 Were you on the old Monsanto campus? They changed all of their speed limit signs to things like that in the early 2000s. There also installed a radar measured speed sign that became a drag strip for people leaving after hours! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wh500special 2,073 #15 Posted November 3, 2023 Indeed, this was by the Bayer (nee Monsanto) Creve Coeur campus. There is probably something symbolic about these numbers, and they are certainly out of the ordinary. Your old stomping grounds, I presume? I'm one of those people in the minority that unfailingly drives the speed limit. I'm fundamentally cheap and I get better fuel economy that way, plus we're trying to live in a society here... But 17 mph might be a hard one to comply with even for me. Steve 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 52,229 #16 Posted November 3, 2023 16 hours ago, dcrage said: a radar measured speed sign that became a drag strip Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dcrage 621 #17 Posted November 6, 2023 (edited) On 11/3/2023 at 7:32 AM, wh500special said: Indeed, this was by the Bayer (nee Monsanto) Creve Coeur campus. There is probably something symbolic about these numbers, and they are certainly out of the ordinary. Your old stomping grounds, I presume? I'm one of those people in the minority that unfailingly drives the speed limit. I'm fundamentally cheap and I get better fuel economy that way, plus we're trying to live in a society here... But 17 mph might be a hard one to comply with even for me. Steve 34 yrs on that campus. The only reasons we ever heard for the odd speed limits (seemed like there was a 29 mph limit there also) was to get our attention. It did do that for a while. I just reread your original post and see you encountered the 29 mph sign. Edited November 6, 2023 by dcrage Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
