I love it when posts to this blog get comments like, "Well, it's OBVIOUS that the sign means xxx." The point, my dears, is that nothing is obvious at all when the grammar in signs is ambiguous, particularly for non-native English speakers trying to navigate around our fair lands in search of addresses, locations, food and so on.
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