What do you think is hidden inside this road cone? You’ll never guess!

We would like to thank our reader netcars for this great post. He describes it as follows:

This post is short and sweet but it should put a smile on your face. I stumbled across a funny road sign the other day and it got me thinking about what other funny road signs there could be in existence.

Here is my Top 5:

Bumpass Hell - Watch Your Backs!!

On the way with my bike through the Defereggental (Defereggen-valley) to the "Staller Sattel", an Alpine pass from Eastern Tyrol, a part from Austria to Southern Tyrol, a part from Italy. But lot of kind of this "traffic" is common there... ;-)

UPD: This icy road is known as the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road because it is only open to traffic in the wintertime. The reason for this is that in the summertime it is a river. It is only in the wintertime that the Mackenzie River Delta freezes which makes a road from parts of the Arctic Ocean and the river. This road connects the communities of Tuktoyaktuk and the Northwest Territories in Canada. In the summertime the village of Tuktoyaktuk can be reached only by boat or plane.

pedestrian crossing 

This is an impassable road that is located between the cities of Syktyvkar, Ukhta, and Pechora in the republic of Komi, Russia. In the beginning of the road, there are only some small pools of water but after a few miles the pools become so large and deep that they are impassable.

Tiger-Stone is a Dutch paver laying machine that can produce brick roads. This machine rolls out an amazing hardscape and creates an instant road anywhere it goes. The process looks magical and unbelievable.

Paving bricks are put onto the angled plain. As the electric crawler moves forward along a sand base layer, all the stones are packed together by gravity. The Tiger-Stone is able to lay out 400 square meters of road per day. You should watch the video to see this impressive machine in action.

These are road side "historical" markers that all start with "On this site stood." They are socially and politically provocative. They are the creation of artist Norm Magnusson who has been placing them on Interstate 75 for his I-75 Project.

Although it looks an awful lot like a road, it is not.

If you ever come to Haiti, avoid the street known as Route des Rails in Port-au-Prince. This place is horrific, as at least 1500 poor people live at this street with about 200 improvised tents. These scenes are very sad and shocking.

It seems to me that not only goods, but also roads can be “made in China”. This collection of pictures shows the road in Zhengzhou (central Chinas Henan Province) that paralyzed city traffic after geotextile entangled in a bus’ tire. This road doesn’t look like a high-standard all-season one now.

Hm… Just imagine that these cherries are gathered by shovels, after spending some time on the asphalt, and brought to the market. Yummy? I wouldn’t buy any now…

That’s how this woman charges everyone who drives on this road in China.

And if you don’t pay, then it’d be very difficult to drive, moreover, your car can get damaged.

I thought that this was the worst road in the world. I was wrong, here’s a Brazilian road called Transamazônica or The Trans-Amazonian Highway.

This information and some pictures were sent us by our visitor KallAngo. Thank you KallAngo for sharing with us.

Here’s some history of it.