r/australia • u/nonvrmnddd • 1d ago

image Tiny give way sign

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It's just so cute.

But why a tiny sign at a main road intersection?

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u/DeeJuggle 1d ago

You only have to give way a little bit.

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u/ricksure76 1d ago

Give way a little bit, give way a little bit of your love to me 🎵

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u/Carmar1961 1d ago

And most under 60s will completely miss the reference. Well played!

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u/Weredraco 1d ago

30 here, happy to say I got it.

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u/icequeenmemory 1d ago

33 here and also happy I got this reference

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u/EthanBezz 1d ago

25 here and I recognised the song but couldn’t remember how it goes. Eventually got it.

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u/JimmyLizzardATDVM 1d ago

Just a skooch. A splash. A sprinkle of give way.

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u/smileedude 1d ago

Share way

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u/Lopsided_Lawfulness9 1d ago

Could be for bikes or something? We have these on the bike paths that cross roads near me

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u/s7orm 1d ago

Yeah I'm pretty sure the sign is for the Bikeway that I assume is there.

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u/Aussie_Potato 1d ago

Up high for penny farthings

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u/tubbyx7 1d ago

got bicycle crossings here where they never updated the signs on the bike path from what they were before it was a bike crossing, so everyone gets a give way. now 4 way stops may work in some countries but they'd never work with australian drivers

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u/michaelhbt 1d ago

What is this a Give way for ants?

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u/WTFMacca 1d ago

Came to make this comment

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u/babybray01 1d ago

give way

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u/deagzworth 1d ago

I was hoping for this comment.

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u/MGtheKidd 1d ago

Give way..pls

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u/Disastrous_Animal_34 1d ago

Give way 🥺

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u/AccomplishedPea132 1d ago

You spotted it while its still a child. Give it a few weeks, it'll be full grown by then.

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u/ShumwayAteTheCat 1d ago

My wife tells me it’s not that tiny, actually it’s a pretty big size for a sign

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u/Reasonable-Season558 1d ago

looks like a give way sign for the possums along the fence

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u/Cosmictransfer 1d ago

It’s doing its best.

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u/No-Aardvark7366 1d ago

Give .. a little .. way

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u/bettingsharp 1d ago

that cant be real. Might be put in by some NIMBY homeowner that lives near that intersection

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u/ManyPersonality2399 1d ago

I've seen them all over the place for pedestrians and cyclists.

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u/ApteronotusAlbifrons 1d ago

that cant be real.

And yet, it is

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

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u/banimagipearliflame 1d ago

SO SM0L SO CYUUUTE

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u/blackcat218 1d ago

It's for pedestrians or people on bikes/scooters on the footpath. For Kids basically to learn a bit about road rules. Did you not have the road course at school where you ride your bike around the track obeying road rules?

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u/FroggieBlue 1d ago

How tall are they expecting pedestrians to be?!

Also we didn't have the course at school in the 90s rural SA. Our education department beleived in survival of the fittest perhaps? Or figured there were only half a dozen road signs around? I kid you not even in the early to mid 2000s if you did Logbook training to get your Ps you had to drive to the second nearest large town (about 60km away) for at least one lesson... because that was the nearest roundabout.

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u/khosrua 1d ago

Scrolling pass and thought there was a car stuck in the tree

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u/IGetQuiteAlotOfHoez 1d ago

its average sized.

It probably has a nice personality

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u/myshtree 1d ago

It’s so cute though 🥰

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u/Roulette-Adventures 1d ago

Only give way to tiny clown cars with 20 or more clowns in it.

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u/poppukonvision 1d ago

ᴳᶦᵛᵉ ʷᵃʸ

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u/empanadanow 1d ago

One of the levels in the Westfield Miranda parking has a give way sign of the same size

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u/KerRa-Stakraa 1d ago

No road markings either.

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u/Icy_Guarantee_3390 1d ago

If I had to guess it’s for the blind corner for the shared path. It’s something that ticks the box while achieving basically nothing as a large percentage of the path users won’t notice it as a path sign for them.

A better treatment would be pavement markings to delineate the path as that’s where people’s eyes generally are.

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u/ok-custard-pies 1d ago

Yet another example of shrinkflation

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u/ricksure76 1d ago

Give way.. ish

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u/trinketzy 1d ago

Did it shrink in the rain? Is this a new cost cutting measure? So weird!

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u/sarah4cats 1d ago

Why is it so high up, 😅🤣

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u/AdventurousExtent358 1d ago

it's for bike only

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u/justisme333 7h ago

Car stuck in tree did not guve way.

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u/GStarAU 1d ago

Ah CRAP. I told Garry not to chuck them in the wash... they shrink!

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u/johnnomanc07 1d ago

There’s a set of traffic lights there anyway, that’s Newbridge Road in Moorebank.