This one is not really a redundancy or waste of time. The trick is to know what it really means instead of what it says. Not all warning signs are posted by the government and this lets you know which you need to obey.surprise_i'm_armed wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:53 pmBut I swear (can't be 100% sure) that TexDOT has decided to add a useless sign to our state's mix, to wit:
"State Law - Observe All Warning Signs."
I have always thought that if the state posts a sign, you obviously have to obey it. Why does TexDOT feel that they have to state the obvious? SMH.
Texas has a law that allows road construction crews to post temporary signs, in black lettering on an orange background, to control traffic in a construction zone. You might have seen these as temporary speed limits or lane closures, etc. Since these are posted by a company and not a government, there is no law backing them up and you don't really have to obey them. To give them some force, the legislature decided to add that if there is a proper warning posted, then they must be obeyed. The orange obey all warning signs is the sign the company must post to make their temporary signs enforceable by the police.
Another example of this is that 99% of the traffic laws do not apply while on private property. You can generally ignore the stop signs and lane direction markers in parking lots for example. Some cities use their authority to enact an ordinance that adopts these laws and makes them applicable in parking lots. To do this, they need to post a sign that state laws apply due to the ordinance (I don't remember the exact wording of the law, but if you shop at the Forum at 1604 and IH-35 in San Antonio, you will see the signs for the portion that is in either Selma or Schertz - I never paid attention to which city it was). So we have signs saying to obey state laws too.