Incorrectly removed cycling trail

At the request of the Dutch ambassador iFrankmans I want to appeal a removed wayspot.

Name: Fietsroute 37 & Maasroute
Location: 51.781476, 5.848728

Since the new witchhunt in the Netherlands (vs cycling and hiking trail markers) I decided to try and avoid any bans/warnings for my kids. I don’t care if I get any bans myself because I quit playing both Ingress and Pokemon Go after Niantic decimated several forest hiking trails last year. I requested the abuse team to review a list we compiled of our trail marker submissions. This wayspot got removed while it clearly contained a marker of the named cycling trail “Maasroute”.

Frankly, I don’t care if this wayspot gets restored since we don’t live in this area and we stopped helping smaller communities by wayfaring for them.

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Thanks for the appeal, @Tokekkebo We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire the Wayspot.

Yeah, this nonsense pisses me off too. They might as well remove trail markers from the list of eligible things since they’re treating them as if they aren’t even remotely eligible.

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I have to say the submission made me giggle. A cycling trail directional sign above a large sign that says no bikes allowed. You gotta see the humor in that.

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That’s not what that sign means. The sign means that the designated bike lane/path stops there and bikes will have to share the road with cars.

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Funny, it means no bikes allowed in most places.

Since we have so much cycling infrastructure you might not be used to the blue signage for cyclists, but they never indicate bikes are not allowed. Let me clear up any confusion your post creates by linking this: Traffic signs - Cycling In Wageningen

Thanks, really no need to get into a long explanation. The sign means no bikes allowed in most places.
The red circle with the line through it universally means not allowed and the thing that’s not allowed is in the picture underneath the red line. It might mean something different where you are, but that wasn’t really the point. It was just the juxtaposition of the two signs that was funny.

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Looks like we do since you are creating unwanted confusion with your post. The sign doesn’t indicate that in most places, since nearly everywhere around the world they use a red stroked-through circle on a white background.

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Again, just the juxtaposition of the two signs. It was funny, not a serious thing.

Even if it means that the bike path ends, that’s still just as funny.

We gave this another look and have reinstated the Wayspot and have renamed it to “Maasroute”.

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The last sentence :framed_picture: it is an work of art

Oh! I wonder if explaining to @Leedle95 about the slash through the bike is what made them take another another look!

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If so, great.

And seriously, how often do you get to use the word juxtaposition in a sentence??

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I prefer interposition, e.g. “That was an out-fekking-standing usage of juxtaposition!”

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