Strange Way to say "YIELD TO ONCOMING TRAFFIC"

[silverback1065]

O never mind then.  They do serve the same purpose for pedestrian safety though.

[signalman]

O never mind then.  They do serve the same purpose for pedestrian safety though.

That bump out in the steet view you posted has nothing to do with pedestrian safety.  It's there to keep drivers from parking too close to the intersection.

[kphoger]

now that's unusual.  here in the US, one-lane bridges tend to have a YIELD sign at each end.  namely, whoever gets there second yields to whomever gets there first.

Hmmm.  I do believe you're right, but the one closest to here (SR 9 over the Pilchuck Creek) only has a YIELD on one end.

Although I'm slightly confused, because apparently it's slated for replacement in the near future, and that page says there are signs on both ends and drivers should take turns.  But my memory and GSV say one end.

The one closest to me is set up so that one side has a yield sign with a placard underneath saying "To oncoming traffic"

That's the norm around here as well on the few one-lane bridges that remain in the area. I went over two of them twice each on Saturday night (both on Springvale Road in Fairfax County going to and from a restaurant) and they both had that style of sign on either end, together with a line indicating where you should stop and yield.

That's the style I seem to remember from H Hwy in Perry County, Missouri, between MO-51 and US-61 at a couple of one-lane bridges such as this one.  Unfortunately, there's no Google street view.  You can just barely make out the white plaque below the YIELD sign in the Bing Bird's Eye view here.

[1995hoo]

now that's unusual.  here in the US, one-lane bridges tend to have a YIELD sign at each end.  namely, whoever gets there second yields to whomever gets there first.

Hmmm.  I do believe you're right, but the one closest to here (SR 9 over the Pilchuck Creek) only has a YIELD on one end.

Although I'm slightly confused, because apparently it's slated for replacement in the near future, and that page says there are signs on both ends and drivers should take turns.  But my memory and GSV say one end.

The one closest to me is set up so that one side has a yield sign with a placard underneath saying "To oncoming traffic"

That's the norm around here as well on the few one-lane bridges that remain in the area. I went over two of them twice each on Saturday night (both on Springvale Road in Fairfax County going to and from a restaurant) and they both had that style of sign on either end, together with a line indicating where you should stop and yield.

That's the style I seem to remember from H Hwy in Perry County, Missouri, between MO-51 and US-61 at a couple of one-lane bridges such as this one.  Unfortunately, there's no Google street view.  You can just barely make out the white plaque below the YIELD sign in the Bing Bird's Eye view here.

Here's a Street View of one of the ones we traversed the other night. Virginia has started using lines of triangles to denote a yield line. Off the top of my head I don't recall whether this spot has been changed to that style because I wasn't really paying attention. Been that way often enough that I wasn't all that interested in the road.

[DSS5]

I can't remember where, but I distinctly remember seeing a white regulatory sign saying "Take Turns" at a one-lane bridge.

[PurdueBill]

When I saw the thread title I thought immediately of the one-lane bridge on PA 896 with the exact verbatim message like that in the Alabama and Virginia examples above--also facing both the directions of traffic.  Not sure who is supposed to yield to who in these places if there is a tie. 

[kphoger]

Not sure who is supposed to yield to whom in these places if there is a tie. 

Both.