Re: Directional arrows

Andrew Barker wrote:
> Which way should an arrow meaning 'ahead' point?
> The intuitive answer seems to be that an 'ahead' arrow should point
> upwards, but what about a suspended sign that one passes beneath - an
> upwards pointing arrow seems wrong unless people are being instructed to
> vault over the sign (unlikely and probably inadvisable).

Such signs are commonplace in the UK, and I don't see dents on the ceiling.

Ultimately, it's whatever is conventional where the signs will be used;
I'm confident you won't find one universally-applicable answer, because
I've seen contradictory conventions in different places.

For example, UK overhead road signs have upward-pointing arrows for
direction, but downward-pointing ones for lane designations.  In
France, I've seen arrows on either side of the road, one pointing
left, and one right, and you're meant to realize that they're to
be taken together as pointing to the horizonal (sic) dot between them.
-- 
Frank Wales [[email protected]]
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