This parody of "Let It Go" from the Disney movie "Frozen" about traffic conditions during the winter is hilarious. Well, if you put aside the fact that the traffic reporter really doesn't have the voice to do this song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTuwwZEAL-s
At 2:28, a SPEED LIMIT 31 sign?
Quote from: Big John on March 29, 2014, 12:28:40 PM
At 2:28, a SPEED LIMIT 31 sign?
Yes, apparently he has magical powers that can make speed limits drop to odd numbers.
That was entertaining.
He has done other parodies through a "Dance Party Friday" traffic report segment, for a few years now.
Quote from: dgolub on March 29, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Quote from: Big John on March 29, 2014, 12:28:40 PM
At 2:28, a SPEED LIMIT 31 sign?
Yes, apparently he has magical powers that can make speed limits drop to odd numbers.
35, a completely standard speed limit, is also odd.
Quote from: Big John on March 29, 2014, 12:28:40 PM
At 2:28, a SPEED LIMIT 31 sign?
There's a speed limit 23 sign about two miles from my house.
Yay, topic derailed! This has been done before, but only in metric (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=9704.0).
Fifth Third Ballpark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Third_Ballpark) (the Michigan one) used to have SPEED LIMIT 17 signs in its parking lot. And Michigan weigh stations have a posted speed limit of 3.
This is in my hometown of Cincinnati. I didn't have to look at the YouTube link to know who and what it was. Bob Herzog is hilarious in person as well, I have had opportunity to meet him and be on TV with him.
Odd-numbered speed limits never bothered me anyway!
Quote from: 1 on March 29, 2014, 09:38:30 PM
Quote from: dgolub on March 29, 2014, 07:00:04 PM
Quote from: Big John on March 29, 2014, 12:28:40 PM
At 2:28, a SPEED LIMIT 31 sign?
Yes, apparently he has magical powers that can make speed limits drop to odd numbers.
35, a completely standard speed limit, is also odd.
Sorry about the ambiguity. I meant odd in the sense of unusual, not in the sense of not divisible by 2.
This came up in another topic, and there don't seem to be any old threads on it except for one dealing with English/metric conversions.
Found this on Reddit:
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This is in Clinton, IN.
I don't have a picture of a sign, but during my years at Duke in the 1990s the speed limit on James Street in Durham (posted on standard signs) was 27 mph.
It seems like I've seen this topic on here before, but it's still an interesting topic. I think I saw a news story about a town lowering their speed limit from 35 to 34 to try to get driver's attentions and to attempt to slow down traffic.
Quote from: US 41 on March 30, 2014, 04:43:56 PM
It seems like I've seen this topic on here before, but it's still an interesting topic.
Yeah, I'm an idiot. It's at "Unusual speed limits" (https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=4146.0). Couldn't find it last night or before I made the topic, so of course I find it later.
I've seen Speed Limit 7 and Speed Limit 21 at casino complexes.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine spent summers at a lake community. All the roads within the community had a posted limit of 12. All of the signs were standard (size and font) speed limit signs too.
Speed limit on Ole Miss campus is 18 mph in honor of Archie Manning.
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The first post is not even about speed limits!
Quote from: 1 on March 31, 2014, 02:27:38 PM
The first post is not even about speed limits!
This topic was formed by two different topics that were merged.
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Some speed limits I found on google images that aren't divisible by 0 or 5.
Quote from: US 41 on March 31, 2014, 03:52:06 PM
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Quote from: US 41 on March 31, 2014, 03:52:06 PMaren't divisible by 0
please find me a speed limit that
is divisible by 0.
No GSVs available for the below:
At the GE Aviation plant facility in Lynn, MA; there were (not sure if they're still there) SPEED LIMIT 19 signs posted along the property and parking lots.
At the Hershey Mills Development in East Goshen, PA (Chester County); the posted speed limit (brown wooden signs w/red lettering) is 27 mph.
Quote from: US 41 on March 31, 2014, 03:52:06 PM
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Some speed limits I found on google images that aren't divisible by 0 or 5.
This looks fake.
Quote from: PHLBOS on March 31, 2014, 05:14:45 PM
At the Hershey Mills Development in East Goshen, PA (Chester County); the posted speed limit (brown wooden signs w/red lettering) is 27 mph.
Red lettering on a brown background? That sounds nasty.
Quote from: Zeffy on March 31, 2014, 07:46:45 PM
Quote from: US 41 on March 31, 2014, 03:52:06 PM
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This looks fake.
Arialveticverstesks always look fake. :pan:
infinity is not divisible by zero.
(okay, it's a lot more complex than that, in the Alanlandian sense of "infinity both is and is not divisible by zero, depending on your definition of infinity" - but, for the purposes of this discussion, no number that can be used as a speed limit is a number that is divisible by zero.)
Quote from: Zeffy on March 31, 2014, 07:46:45 PMQuote from: PHLBOS on March 31, 2014, 05:14:45 PM
At the Hershey Mills Development in East Goshen, PA (Chester County); the posted speed limit (brown wooden signs w/red lettering) is 27 mph.
Red lettering on a brown background? That sounds nasty.
The main reason they can get away w/such there is because the development is a gated community and the interior roads (where the signs are located) are private.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on April 01, 2014, 12:09:11 PM
infinity is not divisible by zero.
(okay, it's a lot more complex than that, in the Alanlandian sense of "infinity both is and is not divisible by zero, depending on your definition of infinity" - but, for the purposes of this discussion, no number that can be used as a speed limit is a number that is divisible by zero.)
Fair enough. Any number divided by zero will give a quotient of infinity. Howzat.
Quote from: Road Hog on April 04, 2014, 08:34:00 AM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on April 01, 2014, 12:09:11 PM
infinity is not divisible by zero.
(okay, it's a lot more complex than that, in the Alanlandian sense of "infinity both is and is not divisible by zero, depending on your definition of infinity" - but, for the purposes of this discussion, no number that can be used as a speed limit is a number that is divisible by zero.)
Fair enough. Any number divided by zero will give a quotient of infinity. Howzat.
Hence, the Isle of Man and German Autobahn speed limits.
The speed limit in the Walmart DC in Raymond, NH is 9½ MPH. I don't have pics. At some other reciever, I saw signs for 8⅞ MPH.
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Hotel outside Carlsbad, CA.
Here's a Speed Limit 17 sign in Port St. Joe, FL:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=port+st.+joe+florida&ll=29.862306,-85.33823&spn=0.000002,0.002064&hnear=Port+St+Joe,+Gulf+County,+Florida&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=29.862306,-85.33823&panoid=zWjEou6xRDmIWH7vb2eOVA&cbp=12,285.83,,3,2.02
I believe I have a photo of it too, I'll have to find it first though.
I also recall seeing a Speed Limit 23 sign in that area as well, but it looks like it was removed according to Google Street View.
Not really a speed limit sign, but I saw this sign at my university's parkade last winter and took a picture.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FM3nR3BL.jpg%3F1%3F2299&hash=e22ff9acd434e15cb146c9d30c4ba105a00b5a0f)
The Rockefeller University in NYC had a "Speed Limit [Pi]" sign in one of their parking decks. That's slow!
The City of Albuquerque has reduced speed limits that are not divisible by 5 on its designated Bicycle Boulevard streets. I presume this is for people can pay attention to their speedometers.
Quote from: mtantillo on September 26, 2014, 12:14:29 AM
The Rockefeller University in NYC had a "Speed Limit [Pi]" sign in one of their parking decks. That's slow!
Maybe intended for walking?
My brother's apartment complex has a speed limit of 9.
299,792,458 metres per second
fastest speed there is.
Here in Dalton there is actually a Speed Limit 13 sign on a road in a condo-neighborhood off of the North Bypass (saw it when I was visiting someone there).
I really wish I could've gotten a picture of it (I couldn't because I was actually driving myself), and unfortunately it is not available on Google Street View.
A FB friend of mine (not a roadgeek) posted a pic of a brown parking lot sign that lists a speed limit of 9 mph. Unfortunately, he didn't give its location but I'm assuming it's at a mall somewhere in Greater Philadelphia.
I think I saw 12.5 somewhere (half of 25)
My parents had a timeshare near Birch Bay, WA for a few years, and they had "Speed Limit 7", and another sign that said "7 = One Foot On Brake".
Quote from: TEG24601 on December 29, 2014, 04:04:16 PM
My parents had a timeshare near Birch Bay, WA for a few years, and they had "Speed Limit 7", and another sign that said "7 = One Foot On Brake".
One foot? I can only interpret that two ways, neither of which makes any sense. Either there are cases where you would have both feet on the break or the other foot goes somewhere else. Gas?
This past July-Nov., I lived in Playa del Rey and biked to Redondo Beach and back every day. This passed through The Strand in Hermosa Beach which is posted at 8 MPH. An LA Times article (http://articles.latimes.com/1987-03-26/news/cb-294_1_speed-limit) from 1987 shows that the limit was 10 when posted 27 years ago, and why they decided to reduce the limit by 2 miles is beyond me. Ever try biking at 8 MPH? It's a challenge to maintain a speed that low.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-pTBQI0-S8r8/TwS27KRHgcI/AAAAAAAAEm0/lQKh78YuZA0/s512/DSC_0055.JPG)
Quote from: bzakharin on December 29, 2014, 04:39:55 PM
Quote from: TEG24601 on December 29, 2014, 04:04:16 PM
My parents had a timeshare near Birch Bay, WA for a few years, and they had "Speed Limit 7", and another sign that said "7 = One Foot On Brake".
One foot? I can only interpret that two ways, neither of which makes any sense. Either there are cases where you would have both feet on the break or the other foot goes somewhere else. Gas?
Another nitwit who doesn't know that some cars don't have PRNDLs.
Onondaga Lake Park in Liverpool, New York has a Speed Limit 17 sign. The Parks Department says it's "to get people's attention" per http://www.localsyr.com/story/d/story/why-is-the-speed-limit-17-miles-per-hour-at-ononda/33265/tS1kXiJ6KU6XuuJT9IDHaA.
Quote from: bzakharin on December 29, 2014, 04:39:55 PM
Either there are cases where you would have both feet on the break or the other foot goes somewhere else. Gas?
Sammy Hagar had that problem (http://www.lyricsbox.com/sammy-hagar-lyrics-i-cant-drive-55-5fhw3kv.html).
Does this count?
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Quote from: bzakharin on December 29, 2014, 04:39:55 PM
Quote from: TEG24601 on December 29, 2014, 04:04:16 PM
My parents had a timeshare near Birch Bay, WA for a few years, and they had "Speed Limit 7", and another sign that said "7 = One Foot On Brake".
One foot? I can only interpret that two ways, neither of which makes any sense. Either there are cases where you would have both feet on the break or the other foot goes somewhere else. Gas?
Putting both feet on the brake is too difficult. The clutch gets in the way of the left foot.
The one time I ever had both feet on the brake was when a guy ran a red light at an intersection ahead coming from the left, causing a several-car collision, with one car spinning around and coming head-on into my direction of 45-mph traffic. Nothing but grass to the right but still an inane tall concrete curb so running off the road not an option; I veered as far to the right as possible, braced for an offset collision and braked with both feet basically in panic. Somehow the spun out car stopped parallel to mine and another traveling my direction, facing us and six inches off the fenders of each of us, such that had we collided, it woulda been a nice offset head-on crash. (It took a minute to unwrap my fingers from the steering wheel and get out to see who was OK and find that the guy who ran the red light and his passenger were still in their car, which was running, leaking fluids, both unconscious...apparently the driver was trying to rush the passenger to the nearby hospital. Nurses on lunch break from the nearby hospital, including one from a car involved in the collateral collisions, descended on his car moments after I turned off his ignition.) Never braked with both feet before or since then.
I'm guessing that the "one foot on brake" thing on the sign means that to keep it down to 7 mph you have to ride your brake. If you let it coast in drive you may pick up enough to be "speeding" based on the posted speed limit of 7.
Came across this one at a local library a few days ago:
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You can even sorta see it in GSV (http://goo.gl/maps/51Ayx).
Quote from: MikeTheActuary on January 27, 2015, 11:14:00 PM
Came across this one at a local library a few days ago:
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You can even sorta see it in GSV (http://goo.gl/maps/51Ayx).
A Harry Potter reference of course. But why the series B?! :-o
Think I've posted this on another thread, but the speed limit within Disneyland is 14.
I think it has something to do with a limit > 15 means Anaheim would have to patrol it (but don't quote me on that)
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In Bolingbrook there is a company (or was) off of Remington Blvd that had a non-official speed limit sign of 17 1/2 mph.
I'd like to revive. Found this on Reddit, apparently it's in Chicago. Picture is massive, so here's the link:
http://i.imgur.com/7U0GMnG.jpg
Bonus for Clearview! :cool: :D
Not a public way, but I've passed the Harvard Square bus tunnel hundreds of times before noticing this:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/746/19922636344_c7d12c4666.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wmuHG5)
Quote from: Pete from Boston on August 27, 2015, 10:28:29 PM
Not a public way, but I've passed the Harvard Square bus tunnel hundreds of times before noticing this:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/746/19922636344_c7d12c4666.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wmuHG5)
I seem to recall the South Station bus entrance having a similar speed limit sign up as well.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on August 27, 2015, 10:28:29 PM
Not a public way, but I've passed the Harvard Square bus tunnel hundreds of times before noticing this:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/746/19922636344_c7d12c4666.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wmuHG5)
Too ugly.
The Chambersburg Hospital has 16 MPH signs - one near the 7th St. entrance, one at a former speedbump near N. Coldbrook Avenue.
Fort Mitchell, KY. This is the Drees Homes corporate office on Grandview Blvd.. If you look close, you'll see a Speed Limit 14.
https://goo.gl/maps/yibgQ
Seen at a business in Birmingham, AL:
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5678/21036173692_5e7e90c695.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/y3TTxS)Speed Limit 3 (https://flic.kr/p/y3TTxS) by freebrickproductions (https://www.flickr.com/photos/96431468@N06/), on Flickr