Construction and pedestrian detour signs Estonia vs Lithuania

I was wandering around Google Street View in Tallinn and noticed a few streets under construction. The signage there is so much better and more developed. The signs are bright orange so they stand out from regular road signs, which makes it instantly clear that there is construction and to be cautious. I also saw dedicated pedestrian detour signs, which felt super organized and very western.

Then I thought about a street near me in Klaipėda that has been under reconstruction for a while, with new asphalt, drainage, bike lanes, and a small junction turned into a cute little roundabout, plus LED street lights, you know, the whole package. But I have noticed we do not really have pedestrian detour signs here. From what I have seen, it is left up to the construction company to tell people where to walk, usually either a hard wooden board with text or just an A4 paper inside a plastic sleeve taped to a roadside construction barrier. So yeah, it feels pretty underdeveloped. Most of the construction signs look just like regular road signs, except for a few that show detour diagrams in bright orange.

While driving around the city, I even saw some construction signs stuck into cement filled tires, which honestly made me burst out laughing. It is kind of Krakozhia levels of bad. It also still bugs me that Lithuania uses the same road sign designs as Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. I remember someone from the conservative party suggesting we should create our own system to differentiate from the east, but it was dismissed as too expensive since it would mean replacing every sign in the country.

Anyway, I love you Lietuva, you are getting so pretty. Visiting Germany as a kid in the 90s, I used to wish Lithuania could look like that, and now it is finally starting to happen. But damn, we are still lagging when it comes to road signage.