One day while we were driving around I was thinking how similar the US is to Canada and then there are ways we are MILES different. Their signs are by far the biggest way we can be both the same a different. First, they don’t have all the junkie signage up and down their highways, in fact they don’t have any advertising signs running up and down their highways – AT ALL. The moment we crossed back over into the US we were hit in the face with a cacophony of signage. It’s too much! It’s like having signage A.D.D.! You don’t know where to look. No wonder we are a more hyper society, in my opinion. We never have a down time. Even driving from point A to point B we are slammed with signs. We need a break!
On to the reason for this post. Some of their signs are exactly the same as ours-street signs, stop signs, yield signs and some of their signs are super funny, some are IN YOUR FACE! I think if you put up a sign it must have something to say or don’t put it up!
This next photo is a crack up! We were just driving around town in Annapolis Royal,NS and went down this street. If we went straight-there was a dead end- NO EXIT! There was NO RIGHT TURN and if we did try to turn right it was the WRONG WAY! There was no road on the left – it was a house. SO what do we do? Back up until we get to a street we can drive on! In all my years of driving I have never come across this before!
These signs are the extent of what we found for their billboard type advertising. We did stumble across a couple of billboards in all the provinces. It just looks so much nicer without all that kind of “noise.”