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Shoulder / Verge Traffic Signs. Variations on texts
If you intend to drive in France, all traffic signs below indicate a problem on the verge !
Don't forget your dictionnary and take this page in your car !
Narrow road and shoulder |
No verge
It's qualified on other places : "narrow" or "reduced" !
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 Not any text ! |
A few weeks later, after road works. But a misspelling appears : ( "LL" instead of "L")
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 A lot of text to read ! |
Concise |
Dangerous side ? |
Dangerous roadsides : It's simple and everyone knows what it means |
Lowered ?
More technical ! |
White background : problem will remain a long time
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 Narrow
It should be used on a lot of roads ! |
Difference in height
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 Not consolidated
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 Soft |
 Non standard : (White and yellow background mixed) |
Very often, temporary indication
It seems that all these words can be mixed !
Most current text
 Not consolidated
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Soft |
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Like in Belgium ?
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 Impassable |
 Uneven |
Unstable |
 Difference in height |
With flashes (Ardennes)
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Redondant |
 Removed |
 Misspelling : accent |
 Made of wood, fixed on a tree !
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Standalone complementary signs !
 Complementary small sign without AK14 sign |
Photo Gilles Baudlet |
Soft shoulder for a long time ?
Belgium frontier |
In current language, the word rive is used for river bank.On these signs rive is used for roadside
Photo Ronan Guillot |
 Big "small sign" |
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Rives or Rive : Plural or Singular ?"
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 Very high sign indicating a very low danger ! |
Variations at a short distance : (Ardennes)
1 km between these 2 handmade wood roadsigns
Quite the same :
Less than 1 km between these 2 signs
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