People are only just realising what little-known pedestrian crossing sign means – The Mirror
People are only just realising what a pedestrian crossing sign with a second glasses sign underneath it means after an image of it was recently shared on Reddit
A pedestrian crossing sign spotted on a street has baffled members of the public, who are only just realising what it means.
The image was recently shared to the r/roadsigns forum on Reddit and shows a fairly bog-standard pedestrian crossing sign above another sign with an image of glasses. People on Reddit were left speculating as to where the sign was from, with some suggesting it was either Russian or from a former Soviet nation. The original poster explained it was Ukraine.
Still, that didn't leave them any closer to finding out what the sign was for. Some users commented with more humorous suggestions, including one who had made a link between the glasses and The Beatles star John Lennon.
Their comment read: "Watch out for John Lennon lookalikes trying to recreate the Abbey Road cover." Rather unsurprisingly however, this wasn't the sign's purpose. And thankfully, someone eventually chimed in with the correct answer.
The top rated comment on the post read: "Pedestrian crossing. Warning, they may be blind." Another added: "Top sign pedestrians crossing and the plate with the sunglasses means blind people so meaning blind pedestrians are crossing the road."
Other variations of the sign can be be found across the world, with some people describing what it looks like in their countries.
One user replied: "The formal sign in the US was a diamond yellow shape with a blind person walking with a cane. Now it's a blue rectangular sign where the blind person is walking with a guide dog."
Another commented: "In NZ, we use the standard 'pedestrian ahead' diamond with an additional plate saying 'BLIND'.
This surprised the person who originally posted the image. They added: "I thought those signs are same everywhere, turns out they aren't." For those wondering… in the UK we use a triangle showing elderly people crossing, with a sign beneath that reads "Blind People".
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