The Worst of Road Signs

[national highway 1]

From the new Meadowville interchange. *insert political "far-left" pun here*

They could've abbreviated 'Meadowville Technology Pkwy' into 'Meadowville Tech Pkwy'...

[Takumi]

Or just "Meadowville Rd", since currently that's the only existing road there. The right of way for the Parkway has been cleared, but I don't know when it'll become an actual road.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Holy crap. What happened, VDOT?

[Takumi]

I almost made a Virginia Beach joke, but I realized they would have used a primary shield There are also Virginia Beach-esque oval shields on the ramps and the surface. I haven't posted them on here yet because I wanted to get other Virginia roadgeeks' opinions as to whether an oval secondary shield is an error or just ugly.

[Kniwt]

AZ 90 at I-10:

[Takumi]

Something tells me one day I'm going to stumble across one of those that says "Rockymount".

[agentsteel53]

AZ 90 at I-10:
["Elpaso" photo]

beats Clearview.

[hbelkins]

AZ 90 at I-10:
["Elpaso" photo]

Along those same lines...



When I saw this sign, and several others like it on I-87, I wondered what "Ausable" meant. Was it like "drinkable" or "useable" or something like that? Later I found out that it's supposed to be "Au Sable," not "Ausable."

[Takumi]

I had some allegedly ausable forks once, but I wasn't able to aus them, so I threw them away. False advertising.

[corco]

Finally processing photos from a May 2011 trip to Louisiana and stumbled across this on I-10 in Texas

[Central Avenue]

The best/worst part is the "g" being shifted up because the patch isn't actually tall enough for the descender.

[Takumi]

One set of ovals from the Meadowville Interchange. There are ten in total, 4 on each ramp and one reassurance marker in each direction. While perfectly fine for ovals, the problem is that they should be circles!

[PurdueBill]

When I saw this sign, and several others like it on I-87, I wondered what "Ausable" meant. Was it like "drinkable" or "useable" or something like that? Later I found out that it's supposed to be "Au Sable," not "Ausable."

Actually I remember when I was little going to Ausable Chasm there and it was one word.  Is Au Sable River in Michigan, while Ausable River is in New York?

If the main sign is so rounded at the corners, though, the exit tab would look better slightly further to the left so as not to have its sharp lower right corner hanging out over the empty space where the main sign is rounded.  Just my taste anyway. 

[Takumi]

FHWA BGS with a bad brown Clearview patch. This has been around for a couple years.



This is the Exit 52 that the previous picture's overhead referred to. The gore sign has apparently outgrown its corners. What's funny is that the extra green on the right is non-reflective, so at night it looks like a normal gore sign if you're not paying attention.

[SSOWorld]

this one is pretty bad, too.



one of only two '57 spec shields in Arizona.  the other one is on the opposite side of the gantry.  this one, facing south, would be much more ideal to photograph, but there's almost no way one can approach it successfully given the placement of the light post.

Arizona uses those specs as a standard

[Grzrd]

I don't follow this thread closely, but I just ran across a "Road Rant" column in Cleveland Plain Dealer about erroneous signs:
http://www.cleveland.com/roadrant/index.ssf/2011/12/signs_that_deliver_the_wrong_m.html

I'm intrigued by the "I-2" shield (unfortunately no photo of it with story).  Apologies if these signs are old news ...

[codyg1985]

From the new Meadowville interchange. *insert political "far-left" pun here*

They could've abbreviated 'Meadowville Technology Pkwy' into 'Meadowville Tech Pkwy'...

And then they could fit the route shield beside the words and got rid of all that space.

[codyg1985]

One set of ovals from the Meadowville Interchange. There are ten in total, 4 on each ramp and one reassurance marker in each direction. While perfectly fine for ovals, the problem is that they should be circles!

If one weren't paying attention you would think those signs were in Mississippi.

[hbelkins]

If one weren't paying attention you would think those signs were in Mississippi.

Or Kentucky. Or New Jersey. Or Delaware.

That being said, I've seen a few of the oval or ellipse signs for secondary routes in Virginia, both on guide signs and standalone markers.

[agentsteel53]

And then they could fit the route shield beside the words and got rid of all that space.

or, alternately, they could give it a less stupid name.  "Meadowville Pkwy" is sufficient and unpretentious.

[agentsteel53]

came across this one on my lunch break.  apparently, this guide sign is valid only when there are children present.

there were no children around.  I turned left onto Hidden Valley Road anyway.  don't tell anyone!

[Takumi]

or, alternately, they could give it a less stupid name.  "Meadowville Pkwy" is sufficient and unpretentious.

I have a map that shows it, proposed, as Meadowville Pkwy. However, right now there is no Parkway there at all. It's just Meadowville Road.

[ctsignguy]

errk!

[WillWeaverRVA]

Speaking of ovals in Virginia...

[Takumi]

came across this one on my lunch break.  apparently, this guide sign is valid only when there are children present.

there were no children around.  I turned left onto Hidden Valley Road anyway.  don't tell anyone!

Perhaps the valley is only hidden when children are present.