Roads Minister Mike Penning wants to encourage us to take more breaks while driving, so is now allowing motorway services to add 6 symbols of their choosing to the 1 mile & 1/2 mile signs.
The idea seems to be that the motorway services will be allowed to add logos and pretty much any other symbol to the signs rather than the rather bland if universally understood knife & fork, wheelchair symbol and similar.
Burger King, KFC, M&S are fairly likely to be widely understood, but at UKSeries HQ we’re thinking this will create a new game for long journeys, the – “What the heck does that symbol mean!?” game.
Of course this could be used by clever marketing people to encourage those on more leisurely travels to pop in and see what magical mystery ingredients a certain motorway services has to offer, but apart from a couple in the Lake District at Killington Services (M6 J36 – J35) and Tebay (J39 – J38) they all appear to be pretty much the same. The aforementioned could both include duck symbols for “We have a lake” perhaps.
The proposals are that the new signs could appear within the next couple of months, so if you’re travelling for Christmas, keep a look out for strange new symbols and remember to report back any sightings!
PS: Could we possibly have a credit card sign to mean “annoying credit card sales people operate here”, thus allowing us to avoid those particular service stations. :)
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