The Best of Road Signs

[CoreySamson]

An ODOT miracle. I didn't think it was possible. A good-looking, modern sign with no Clearview.

https://goo.gl/maps/J9XJiTTAGPpRUEkd7

I like the black border around the US 62 shield. One of the few good things ODOT does.

[Scott5114]

An ODOT miracle. I didn't think it was possible. A good-looking, modern sign with no Clearview.

https://goo.gl/maps/J9XJiTTAGPpRUEkd7

It's like a unicorn, isn't it?

Of course, they manage to whiff it by putting the wrong type of arrow on the exit direction sign ½ mile later, but at least the advance signage is nice.

[US 89]

An ODOT miracle. I didn't think it was possible. A good-looking, modern sign with no Clearview.

https://goo.gl/maps/J9XJiTTAGPpRUEkd7

I like the black border around the US 62 shield. One of the few good things ODOT does.

Utah used to do that all the time with a slightly thicker border. I want to say a black border directly on a green sign is banned now though, which is why they stopped doing that about 10 years ago.

[LilianaUwU]

This sign was erected by a private entity, but as of 2019, this sign still stood, making it one of the only button copy signs in Canada.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@46.7880936,-71.3188895,3a,15y,284.55h,91.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7e-7lqtRwktP8aUOYxj1VQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[ClassicHasClass]

Someone tell Stephen Colbert. Might make it on the show. 

[csw]

An old LeHay-ish US 6 in New Bedford, MA.

[kphoger]

An old LeHay-ish US 6 in New Bedford, MA.

That sign in the background...  I don't know what it's saying...

To request green, skateboarders wait on cyclists.

Does that really make the light turn green?

[Big John]

^^ there probably is a sensitive detector around that area.

[someperson]

This must be one of the only button copy signs in Houston. Also note the very faded 610 shield:
https://goo.gl/maps/fjMafCiLt4unJzYQA

Might not be around much longer because this piece of road is about to get a major reconfiguration.

[kphoger]

^^ there probably is a sensitive detector around that area.

If that's the case, then... I still don't know what it means.

[Scott5114]

^^ there probably is a sensitive detector around that area.

If that's the case, then... I still don't know what it means.

The skateboarding guy isn't part of the original sign. Some random person stuck it there later on.

It means, if you are riding a bike, to position your bicycle on the matching bicyclist symbol painted on the street, because there's a bike-sensitive detector installed in the pavement there, and it will cycle the signal for you. If you wait elsewhere, the sensor is calibrated to detect cars and won't pick up a bike, so it won't cycle the signal.

[CoreySamson]

This must be one of the only button copy signs in Houston. Also note the very faded 610 shield:
https://goo.gl/maps/fjMafCiLt4unJzYQA

Might not be around much longer because this piece of road is about to get a major reconfiguration.

Man I'll have to check this out! Not too many old signs left in Texas.

[Scott5114]

Here's a button copy relic.  This is on Redondo, just south of Rosecrans, in north Manhattan Beach, CA.  That is a movie/TV studio in the right distance "Welcome To What's Next").

[csw]

A few fantastic signs still linger in the White River Junction, VT, area.

[formulanone]

Found an old US 11 sign near Slidell, Louisiana (photo taken in June):

[US 89]

Nothing better than a classic button copy in good condition. I-585 in Spartanburg SC, taken January 2021.

[Skye]

In Dayton, OH

[Skye]

Another one I captured, from 2006 in Portsmouth, OH.

[ClassicHasClass]

That tilted i just gives it character.

[Mergingtraffic]

I got some new goodies recently...

NJ:



Philly PA:


CT:
Last state-named state route shield


and MD for the never completed I-170

[Mergingtraffic]

Annnnnnnnnnnnd the last standing button copy sign in NYC's Staten Island.  It doesn't even serve traffic anymore.  When the toll booths were removed, they narrowed I-278 but left this sign.

[roadfro]

I got some new goodies recently...

NJ:

This one is a real beaut! It's real cool how they clipped the corners of the main BGS to match the turnpike shield. I'm also liking the different tones of green.

[plain]

I got some new goodies recently...

NJ:

Is this the one on NJ 32? (There's 2 of them but I believe this is the EB one)

[LilianaUwU]

A QC-360 shield that was recycled from Route 38 (or 33, but I'm 80% sure it's 38).

[LilianaUwU]

An old one (from 2009!): Route 8A behind a QC-197 shield in Rivière-au-Renard. Sadly, it has been gone for a while now. Since I had a cheap digital camera at the time and it was nighttime, the quality of the pictures is less than ideal, but you can click on them to enlarge them.