Traffic signs or traffic text?

So back in planet Europe, we have decided to use traffic signs to let us know what is expected of us while behind the wheel. No parking has a sign (blue and red with one line over a cicle for no parking but stopping allowed and two lines over a circle if stopping is prohibited, hate those ones, buuu), dead end has a sign, careful deer/frogs/cows/what-ever has a sign, ditto for no U-turn, no entry, no left/right turn etc. No matter what language you speak you have no excuse to break the rule. You can read a sign.

Now, the population of US is pretty diverse.You would think that they want to play it safe here and use signs also. We´ll guess again. Maybe someone said, hey, we get people from all around the world coming here, maybe they are not used to the signs. So they solved the problem by having little metallic plates of text instead of a symbol. That works fine, except for the poor souls who do not speak English.

Well, the blog is called US in pics, so I might as well show you what I am talking about.

I especially like this last one, where there is the international traffic sign AND the text plate. Something for everyone. Catering to all. Now THAT I do like.