Inconsistent or incorrectly labelled overpasses

[cappicard]

Has anyone encountered an overpass from underneath where the sign is different from the actual name for said overpass?

In Lenexa, Kansas, College Blvd crosses over I-35 without interchanging with it. However, from drivers on I-35, the overpass is signed as 111th Street.


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[catch22]

I-94 Exit 231 in Michigan.  The EB exit ramp to Gratiot Ave. goes over the WB lanes.  The bridge is signed "Gratiot Ave." even though it's nowhere close to Gratiot at that point.


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[jeffandnicole]

https://goo.gl/maps/piuJkHWS2e92

The NJ Turnpike under Rt. 70.  It's known as Marlton Pike in this area (and most addresses show Marlton Pike, not Rt. 70).  The rarely used John Rockerfeller Hwy street name would be much further east from this point.

[cappicard]

This may qualify as one.  Officially, US 69 throughout Overland Park is the Overland Parkway. Hardly anyone here outside of KDOT refers to 69 as its official name, save for traffic reporters on the radio and TV stations.

69 is labelled as such on interchanging streets and on I-35's southbound sign bridges, but not on 69 itself.


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[cappicard]

At one point or another, the Grandview Triangle had signs that said "Entering Triangle" on some of the side streets or on US 71 (prior to it being upgraded to I-49).

The name Three Trails Crossing Memorial Highway wasn't given to the Triangle officially until 2006.

I still, along most others, call it the Triangle.
This interchange complex had no official name prior to 2006.

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[vdeane]

There are a few rail overpasses over the Thruway still labeled "Conrail".  Hasn't been Conrail in a long time.

[freebrickproductions]

There are a few rail overpasses over the Thruway still labeled "Conrail".  Hasn't been Conrail in a long time.

Reminds me of a rail overpass in Attalla, AL that still has the Family Lines System/Seaboard Coast Line logos on the sides of it, even though the line is now owned by the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, and before that it was CSX.

Here in Huntsville, the overpasses along I-565 for Old Madison Pike and Bob Wallace Avenue both omit the first word of each road, making the signs say "Madison Pike" and "Wallace Avenue".

[epzik8]

Nobody can seem to agree whether the road prefixed "Cowenton" in the White Marsh-Perry Hall region of Baltimore County, Maryland is "Cowenton Road" or "Cowenton Avenue". I think before all the overpass label signs were replaced during the express lane construction, the I-95 Cowenton overpass was labeled Cowenton Avenue, but now it's Cowenton Road. Or it may be the other way around. It's different on maps depending on the map's publisher, too.

[AlexandriaVA]

There still is a corporate entity known as "Conrail Shared Assets Operations", which basically exists to provide shared terminal facilities to CSX and NS. However yes, the old Conrail mainlines have been sold off.

[Brandon]

There are a few rail overpasses over the Thruway still labeled "Conrail".  Hasn't been Conrail in a long time.

Usually the railroad is in charge of maintaining those signs.  It's very common around Chicago to see railroad overpasses (viaducts) with Illinois Central Gulf, Chicago & NorthWestern, Milwaukee Road, and many other now-defunct railroads.  The current railroads don't seem to update those signs much.

Examples:

Faded Santa Fe, now BNSF.
Uncertain marking (blank) RR.
ICRR, now CN.
Faded Chicago & NorthWestern.
Indiana Harbor Belt RY.  Still exists.
CSX Transportation, amazingly kept up to date.

[freebrickproductions]

CSX Transportation, amazingly kept up to date.

Not quite, as that logo is a few versions old. Here's the current one:

[FrCorySticha]

Uncertain marking (blank) RR.

If you flip to the other side, it looks like it was another Illinois Central RR overpass.