Iconic Purple Directional Signs Being Replaced

[ToTBellHop]

Absolutely this. It's embarrassing that this thread started 10 months ago and they're still going.

It’s crazy. I struggle to believe they don’t have a sign shop on premises that could churn these signs out. Signs get damaged and need to be replaced. They couldn’t just make all of the new signs first and then install them in close succession?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Absolutely this. It's embarrassing that this thread started 10 months ago and they're still going.

…if I had a nickel…

 

[OG Runner]

Huge upgrade in my book. There's absolutely nothing special about them, and that's the point. They're friggin road signs. Clean, plain, and boring. That's how I want my bed sheets, my toilets, and my road signs.

Purple, red, and yellow together is a design nightmare. It looks like you're advertising a Going Out of Business Sale at a K-Mart in 1998.


The new ones are much clearer at night. It's hard to describe (or to photograph), but the reflective properties are much better.


That's the whole point. You don't eff with safety. Drivers should be given information in the way they're used to receiving information. Roadways are not the place to tinker with novel design choices.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and clearly a number of folks in this discussion have a different opinion than you do.
I am not saying your opinion is wrong, it just isn't shared by people used to the prior versions that they have had for years.

 

[OG Runner]

Meh, They're road signs. I have more important things to be angry about.

Honestly not angry. You are right they are road signs. It was something that was unique
to Disney World that is no longer unique.

 

[OG Runner]

Absolutely this. It's embarrassing that this thread started 10 months ago and they're still going.

Then don't respond if you are embarrassed.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and clearly a number of folks in this discussion have a different opinion than you do.
I am not saying your opinion is wrong, it just isn't shared by people used to the prior versions that they have had for years.

Honestly not angry. You are write they are road signs. It was something that was unique
to Disney World that is no longer unique.

Then don't respond if you are embarrassed.

 

[castlecake2.0]

Most of the street signs along western way have been replaced. The poles are now slimmer and start as dark blue with a yellow ring and then the rest in a lighter shade blue

 

[MisterPenguin]

With the blue background, WDW is adopting the European standard over the American. As long as they remain consistent.

 

[OG Runner]

Don't give me that look!

 

[mightynine]

I don’t much care about preserving the old signs (#nostalgia) but this does seem harder to read, at least in this picture. That’s a real issue.

Take the sunglasses off.

 

[Tony the Tigger]

Take the sunglasses off.

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[mightynine]

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"It's a joke, son"

 

[JoeCamel]

It’s crazy. I struggle to believe they don’t have a sign shop on premises that could churn these signs out. Signs get damaged and need to be replaced. They couldn’t just make all of the new signs first and then install them in close succession?

Nope, they have to put them up one at a time so we can check their spelling......
They value the public input you know.....

 

[Ayla]

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I can only speak for my sunglasses, but my polarized Ray Bans make any type blurry.

 

[Ayla]

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"It's a joke, son"

I'm totally serious. My sunglasses make type blurry.

 

[Chip Chipperson]

With the blue background, WDW is adopting the European standard over the American. As long as they remain consistent.

Aw crap, am I going to have to start driving on the left side of the road when I'm at WDW?

 

[Tony the Tigger]

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"It's a joke, son"

Well-played.

 

[HauntedPirate]

Huge upgrade in my book. There's absolutely nothing special about them, and that's the point. They're friggin road signs. Clean, plain, and boring. That's how I want my bed sheets, my toilets, and my road signs.

Purple, red, and yellow together is a design nightmare. It looks like you're advertising a Going Out of Business Sale at a K-Mart in 1998.


The new ones are much clearer at night. It's hard to describe (or to photograph), but the reflective properties are much better.


That's the whole point. You don't eff with safety. Drivers should be given information in the way they're used to receiving information. Roadways are not the place to tinker with novel design choices.

The old signs were designed for readability, and thus safety. That's the most important thing, and it worked. In a lot of people's minds these "clean, plain, and boring" signs have taken that a step backwards. I don't see that as an improvement.

 

[Disstevefan1]

The old signs were designed for readability, and thus safety. That's the most important thing, and it worked. In a lot of people's minds these "clean, plain, and boring" signs have taken that a step backwards. I don't see that as an improvement.

I bet this change was done for cost savings just like most things at WDW are done.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Nope, they have to put them up one at a time so we can check their spelling......
They value the public input you know.....

I IS IT!!

I can only speak for my sunglasses, but my polarized Ray Bans make any type blurry.

That’s funny because they do the exact opposite for me