The
street signs in
Portland, Oregon are not very well
designed. Most signs at
intersections have the street name on a very small
sign with printing on only one
side. My aunt
Shelley once managed to
broadside a large
Tri-met bus,
distracted by the
poor signage, desperately trying to figure out what
street she was on.
Further confusing are the various large signs in Portland that read like this:
NEXT SIGNAL
Hawthorne
The major problem with such signs is that they are located about one to three
blocks behind the actual
intersection. Notice that little "
next signal" bit? A lot of people, especially those new to the area,
don't. They thusly turn
prematurely, getting them
hopelessly lost.