Recycled Road Signs

[KEK Inc.]

I wouldn't be surprised if most road signs are recycled; however, there are some instances where it's pretty obvious that the sign is recycled. 

In Seattle, I noticed a freeway-sized speed limit sign was turned into a mini-guide sign.  Both sides look pretty old.

Front of sign (current sign):
http://goo.gl/maps/vVv0t

Back of sign:
http://goo.gl/maps/U200i

[ctsignguy]

Here is a STOP sign recycled into a US 3 shield...

[NE2]

[agentsteel53]

I wouldn't be surprised if most road signs are recycled; however, there are some instances where it's pretty obvious that the sign is recycled. 

In Seattle, I noticed a freeway-sized speed limit sign was turned into a mini-guide sign.  Both sides look pretty old.

Front of sign (current sign):
http://goo.gl/maps/vVv0t

Back of sign:
http://goo.gl/maps/U200i

if the speed limit was patched from 60 to 50, it would predate the 1974 national speed limit.

the front of the sign features a '70 spec shield, but with the custom Washington font for number 5.

[vdeane]

So you're supposed to keep right of the barrier but still pretend you're in the UK when going around the circle?

[vtk]

Pre-existing topic: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=7203.msg161535#msg161535

[xcellntbuy]

So you're supposed to keep right of the barrier but still pretend you're in the UK when going around the circle?

That median needs to see the underside of a lawn mower, too.

[Ian]

Albany County, NY likes to reuse their old signs by creating a new one on the back of the former one. In most cases, they do a very poor job of cleaning the sheeting off of the old message. Here is an example of a CR 201 shield in Voorheesville. Front:


Back:

[kj3400]

Not going to lie, the old sign looks better than the new sign.

[Billy F 1988]

The South Hills region of Missoula has some white shoulder markers made by recycled street blades. You can see some of the lettering on them, too. They're right in front of the Lewis and Clark Square.

[Takumi]

[US71]

Lends whole new meaning to "Recycling"

[PurdueBill]

This pic of mine on Steve's web site shows a very recycled pair of signs on old US 24 between Peru and Logansport, Indiana.


The fronts of the signs look completely normal; only from the back can you tell they are recycled.

[NE2]

from http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/ma/us_44/

[Alps]

The former Triborough Road sign on NJ 24 WB for never-completed Exit 5 (built as a cloverleaf, overpasses now used as an ATV trail) was chopped up and brought over to NJ 3, as I only discovered a few years ago after despairing I was just barely too late to see it on 24:

[Mdcastle]

[US71]

http://www.cosmos-monitor.com/mo/main/kc-frontst.html

http://www.cosmos-monitor.com/mo/main/recycled-cutout-shield.html

[formulanone]

Wrong logo, wrong positioning, and wrong direction.

Perfect.

[Mapmikey]

Re-use of a VA 160 cutout...this was gone in GMSV



Mapmikey

[cu2010]

Need to weight-post your town roads to keep trucks off them during spring thaw? Don't have the right signs? Don't have signposts to put them on? Just improvise!







Plenty more like 'em around here, too...a lot of them could certainly qualify as "the worst of road signs"...fortunately they're only up for a few weeks of the year...

[sp_redelectric]

Tigard, Oregon frequently re-uses old signs with new retro-reflective sheeting for speed limit signs, as well as recycle signs for No Parking signs.  You can often see the old sign on the back of a No Parking sign, or underneath the new sheeting layer.

[getemngo]

At the Dubuque meet last weekend, we saw some shields (US 61, I think) that used to be Do Not Pass and Pass With Care signs.

[formulanone]

A "Push to Cross" / "No Parking" hybrid...located in Margate, Florida:

[hbelkins]

At the Dubuque meet last weekend, we saw some shields (US 61, I think) that used to be Do Not Pass and Pass With Care signs.

I went back after the meet tour and got photos. I plan to post them in the "Recycled Signs" thread.

Oh wait, this is that thread! 

These are on the old road that runs north of the WI 11/WI 35 intersection.

Looks like these used to be US 10 shields


IMG_2436 by hbelkins, on Flickr

This one is the top two-thirds of an old "Pass With Care" sign


IMG_2439 by hbelkins, on Flickr

Kinda hard to see, but this one is the top two-thirds of an old "Do Not Pass" sign


IMG_2440 by hbelkins, on Flickr

[Mr. Matté]

Also some things I've seen on my bike ride today but didn't get to photograph: I saw on the back of a road name plaque what was definitely once a diagrammatic "STOP AHEAD" sign and like this, Mercer County DOT loves to repurpose old county route shields by pasting over new numbers.