There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool

On the way to collect zandev for work this morning I noticed a sign near the Original Swan which read:

"Holloway Closed
Use Ring Road"

Now, to the best of my knowledge Holloway is (a) perfectly open and (b) part of the London Borough of Islington.

On the other hand, Hollow Way in Oxford is currently closed and using the ring road is a sensible alternative.

I'm not seriously suggesting that anyone is likely to confuse the two, I just think it's really rather uncceptable to have errors like that on road signs. Even temporary road signs.

Although if wikipedia is to be believed, Holloway got its name from a sunken cattle track, and is thus presumably a contraction of Hollow Way anyway. I'm not sure etymology is really an excuse for producing inaccurate road signs, though.

Can anyone who's been closer to Hollow Way than I have confirm or deny my suspicions that there aren't diversion signs in place ? "Use ring road" is a fair enough instruction for a local, but no use at all to a visitor.

( And while I'm grumbling about the ring road )