Talk:Road signs in Australia

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Tone issues[edit]

The article is written in the second person. For example, "As a road user, you must obey all instructions on regulatory signs or risk getting a fine and points deducted from your licence" is the wrong tone. It should be written along the lines of, "Road users must obey all instructions on regulatory signs or risk getting a fine and points deducted from their licences." Imzadi 1979 → 05:32, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! The signs look great. I actually made a lot of these tones updates, but I would revise just to make sure it makes sense. Definitely try to avoid "you." Nucomm23 (talk) 12:45, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The "Meaning" column[edit]

All of the signs' labels or names are listed in the column titled "Meaning." I wonder if this column should maybe be renamed to "Sign Name" or "Sign Title"? Unless there is a specific reason that it is called "Meaning"?

Additionally, in the "Meaning" column, some sign names are capitalized and others are not. I'm not sure which is correct, but I suggest sticking to one method -- either capitalize all of the sign names or none of them.

SamDiamond88 (talk) 22:00, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Image size[edit]

I have my preferences set to display image thumbnails at 300px wide; the default is 240px. Both are too big for use in a table. Normally road signs on Wikipedia are displayed no larger than about 70px in height (or x70px in the editing code), although slightly larger sizes are used in some places. Since some signs here are taller than wide, while the rest are roughly squares, I'd suggest that they all be limited to no more than 100 pixels in width. Imzadi 1979 → 23:46, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

State Standards Jordf32123 (talk)[edit]

I've seen a version of V103 used once in Queensland.

And V101. Jordf32123 (talk)

Possible error in a couple of signs?[edit]

THe W7-7 through W7-9 signs (railway crossings) are inconsistent with each other. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:E422:3C01:40DB:D814:23DB:BB8E (talk) 09:46, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yope - the wikimedia files' originals though do (- some -) carry correct desriptions - such as steam engine sign meaning "Uncontrolled railway crossing" . No explanation though on difference of meaning between steam engine going left-to-right and the one going right-to-left. Since I'm about 20.000 km away from all this I better not mess here. S.o. should though . One sign is missing alltogether: Australia_road_sign_W7-9-R.svg MistaPPPP (talk) 02:03, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I corrected to W7-9-R.svg MistaPPPP (talk) 02:20, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption of the global road traffic signage![edit]

OPINION;- That Australia move away from domestic road traffic control signage, created and held in AS1742.4 et al, - in turn usually managed by 'committees' under Standards Australia oversight, and instead move towards greater reliance on the International Road Traffic Sign system administered by the UN. (Vienna Convention). An example we need from the international system - "Bridge Height" - Symbolic versus our AUS english language domestic design! Safety Outcome; Global uniformity and removes language and comprehension issues.

NZ, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu etc and so on use the international system, its AUS that creates unique in the world signage, thus not used anywhere else. Example "END-START FREEWAY" language sign we created to replace the international symbolic version. Cheers, Jeremy H. Pritchard — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.180.43.131 (talk) 11:00, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Missing a type of warning sign[edit]

The sign missing is a percentage gradient sign which is a sign with a steep road and a percentage above it Foxydapirate12 (talk) 22:04, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Guide Signage[edit]

The following Signs are Missing (Images can be found from page 13 of AS 1742.13): G5-10 No Through Road. G9-40-1 Local Traffic Only. G9-41 Unsuitable for Large Vehicles. 103.36.5.100 (talk) 04:32, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]