signs

[cellio]

(Longer posts still failing.)

There are signs, for a few miles of highway, for "[My street] detour". Must be some other part of the street; I haven't seen problems. I haven't been curious enough to follow the signs, but I think there are much more direct routes than what they're doing. Hmm: "detour" sounds kind of similar to "deter", as in "you didn't really want to go there, did you?".

Seen on a truck: a sign for Loafer's bread. Cute.

Seen in Regent Square, a shop called "legume". ??? Pretentious food? Pants? Does it amount to a hill of beans?

Comments

[kayre]

In most towns and cities, detours must take arterial routes as much as possible (just as state routes must detour onto other state routes), rather than double traffic on nearby residential streets. This means that detours are longer than truly necessary, and locals nearly always know a shorter way around the problem area.

[cellio]

Ah, that makes sense.