Why are these old illuminated traffic signs still here? We’re not renovating them or taking them out. I only see them on R0.

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1. Because the people whose job it is to put up the new signs, are not tasked with removing the old signs. And removing things also costs money. Money the people in charge of the signs apparently don’t want to spend.

   As long as it doesn’t fall over, pose a danger to public safety, or has wrong information there’s no real need to remove it, beyond aesthetics.

2. R0 has been littered with all kinds of abandoned road signalling for as long as I remember. It’s part of dat Brusselse Ring experience.

3. My wild guess would be that it’d make it necessary to stop a maintenance car on the road for some time.
   And God knows this is something that’ll automatically create a 20km long jam on le Ring, so I’d say they see no positive outcome yet in taking them out.

4. At least they’re pointing in the same direction.

5. Eventually they will come down by themselves.

   It has already started with Namen

6. It’s for dwarfs and giants people. In Belgium, we don’t judge easily. 👌

7. Maybe they could put a sign “Gratis af te halen” outside.

8. The mast is anchored in Flemish ground! The panels are showing Walloons cities but are above Brussels ground due to the border being just under and their height makes them under Eurocontrol management!

   Basically, no ones wants to touch them!!!

9. Its for the tall people

10. I like how the new sign is alphabetically correct while the old sign doesn’t make too much sense.

11. When the nuclear power plants were still young and generated a far larger percentage of the total nations power, energy was dirt cheap. So cheap that it became a bit of a meme to just put lights in everything and everywhere. Belgium has some of the most illuminated highways because of that. Now the powerplants aged, no new nuclear ones are built to keep up with demand and the power needs grew offsetting their very cheap energy price with far more expensive energy production (gas, wind, ect), causing the price of power to be (relatively) high to what it was, so they just don’t turn on those lights anymore to save money. They just keep them as ‘static’ signs until they become a problem.

12. [Glenn Janssens](https://www.hln.be/showbizz/nu-ook-keizer-van-de-nummerplaatcamera-glenn-janssens-ex-van-ilse-demeulemeester-haalt-contract-binnen-voor-1-000-toestellen~a91da984/): “Hihihi..”

13. Asked myself that question every time I drive by this..

    A19 above E403 (direction Ypres)

    https://www.google.be/maps/@50.8299858,3.1889548,3a,75y,284.13h,81.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s67_j4F1b1Bu9mGkArH-Jww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=nl

14. Sluipverbruik! 🤣

15. I drive past those signs everyday, hello fellow RO driver.

16. 4 Armen?

17. Welcome to the museum of Belgian road signs. Admission: free
    Follow the indicated route R0 to discover more. Watch out, it can get crowded at times when people just stop on the road to admire these pieces of art

18. Because of Belgium

19. It’s on Brussels territory, no money, they don’t care

20. Did you take this picture in Tervuren? Before you can turn onto the highway?

21. They should sell them, I think these would make for great garden ornaments!

22. Cultureel erfgoed