Some top notch work here from the Irvine Department of Public Works.
This is actually even weirder than it looks. These signs are placed outside a street that exits a neighborhood and dead ends. You always have to turn either left or right regardless of what's going on. Also, nothing is closed down. There's no need to detour in the first place. And if you turn right you head straight into the roadwork that presumably motivated these signs.
So . . . wtf?
As a fellow Irvine resident - that photo is hilarious. I have found Irvine to be pretty on top of things in general!
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1384
That's an irl shitpost.
The multiverse has converged. https://i.redd.it/bekphnqftcb41.jpg
Maybe you're supposed to bushwack through the trees there. It does indicate "foot or bicycle". Just don't try to drive some kind of motor vehicle.
Perhaps you have a neighborhood prankster…
Forget it Kevin. It’s Irvine.
With apologies to Lawrence Walsh
I'm reminded of a situation in Cincinnati some years ago. River Road, as you might expect, runs along the Ohio River. Just west of downtown there's an area where a few short side streets run uphill 50 yards and dead end into the base of the bluff. There was road construction on River Road, and apparently there are rules about putting up "End Construction Zone" signs on the road being worked on and cross streets, presumably to define the construction speed limit boundaries. So the little stub streets had "End Construction Zone" signs ten yards from the dead end.
That's for people who are following bicycles who get to the intersection and feel like they should go one way while the bicycle goes the other but the signs inform them they should not do that but should follow whichever bike is nearest to being in front of them.
Well, as the Scarecrow said, "Of course, people do go both ways."
Reminded of the Stephen Leacock sentence, “He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”
Did they run out of these? https://www.trafficsafetywarehouse.com/Images/W1-7-Double-Arrow-Z.png
I have always thought that "It was a one way street going both directions" would be an awesome country song title.