Erroneous road signs

[Billy F 1988]

Check out what Kniwt dug up:

Introducing US highway 200:


Erroneous I-90 shield. Supposed be the green BL-90 shield.

[Truvelo]

How about this one.

[Big John]

How about this one.

That one is much easier to fix.  It was just installed upside-down.

[Truvelo]

It makes you wonder how such simple mistakes can happen and whether it will be rectified.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

"State" Highway 101?

Found on Avila Beach Road in San Luis Obispo.

[NE2]

It's a state highway numbered US 101. Nothing to see here.

[Big John]

 Or a sign telling you to "state 'Highway 101' "   

[Quillz]

"State" Highway 101?

Found on Avila Beach Road in San Luis Obispo.

That's not technically incorrect. California, and other states, technically maintain all numbered highways, regardless of class, as "State Routes." I-5 is State Route 5, for example, so saying "State Route 101" or "State Highway 101" is not wrong.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

"State" Highway 101?

Found on Avila Beach Road in San Luis Obispo.

That's not technically incorrect. California, and other states, technically maintain all numbered highways, regardless of class, as "State Routes." I-5 is State Route 5, for example, so saying "State Route 101" or "State Highway 101" is not wrong.

I am aware of that, but I'm sure it'd be much less confusing to some if it were simply "TO HWY 101."

[Brandon]

Capitalization helps.



Been trying to get this one for months.  Finally got a photo of it today.

[NE2]

Watch out. Some cockbag will capitalize it KanKaKee.

[hbelkins]

Capitalization helps.



Been trying to get this one for months.  Finally got a photo of it today.

If I'm not mistaken, that's new from when I was at Joliet last year, and it replaced button copy. Is that northbound or southbound?

[Brandon]

Capitalization helps.

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Been trying to get this one for months.  Finally got a photo of it today.

If I'm not mistaken, that's new from when I was at Joliet last year, and it replaced button copy. Is that northbound or southbound?

Southbound.  All of the signs have been replaced with Clearview.  If that's the case, then IDOT District 1 has been letting this one sit there for over a year with the error.  All of the other signs have a capital "K".

[thenetwork]

Capitalization helps.



Been trying to get this one for months.  Finally got a photo of it today.

Ahhhhh... So THAT'S where k.d. lang is from!!! 

[hbelkins]

^^^^

And e.e. cummings.

[NE2]

And airline food.

[Alps]

^^^^

And e e cummings

FTFY. (I hate the number of FTFY posts I've done lately, but come on, this one's obvious)

[route56]

http://goo.gl/maps/Lc4F3

Follow this sign to get to Olathe, and you'll wind up stuck on the railroad tracks.... or in the Kansas River.

EDIT: Got a pic of the sign.


47316 by richiekennedy56, on Flickr

[Scott5114]

^^^^

And e e cummings

FTFY. (I hate the number of FTFY posts I've done lately, but come on, this one's obvious)

E.E. Cummings actually preferred his name to be written with standard capitalization and punctuation, and usually signed his name as such. It was publishers that wrote it as e e cummings on covers to echo his usual style.

[Jim]

An ongoing annoyance for me is when a decimal point is combined with a cents symbol, such as what I saw all over the western part of the Indiana Toll Road earlier this summer.  One example:

[agentsteel53]

lemme get out my hacksaw and start whaling away on ol' Abe.

[Billy F 1988]

Maybe they believe that people may perceive the decimals as something else and not the amount of the toll you pay as you pass by the toll gates. I mean, if they are less than $1, just do $0.30 for the IPass and EZPass lanes and $0.70 for the cash lanes. How hard is that? Maybe it's because InDOT, or whoever this is, is mathematically challenged? I mean, that could very well be the case here.

[Jim]

In my experience, it's almost always someone who's mathematically challenged.  But you'd think that somewhere along the way, someone would have told the people who run the Indiana Toll Road that this just isn't right.  I'll give them some credit, though: they were consistently incorrect in their usage on every sign I saw indicating a toll under $1.

[1995hoo]

At least somebody still knows what the cent sign is. The Route 417 partial beltway around Orlando has signs reading "PAY TOLL $.50" at various exit ramps on the southern portion (off the top of my head I don't remember whether that's OOCEA's or the Turnpike's bailiwick). Aside from the fact that "$0.50" is technically the correct form, I've always wondered why they couldn't just say "PAY TOLL 50¢." It's easier to read and, for the unobservant driver, it's clearer what it means because the decimal point isn't an issue. You'd have to be pretty darn stupid to think the ramp toll is a fifty-dollar toll, but I wouldn't put it past some of the people out there!

The sign in Jim's picture looks like it uses a Clearview cent sign, incidentally (not that I'd ever seen one before!).

[TEG24601]

An ongoing annoyance for me is when a decimal point is combined with a cents symbol, such as what I saw all over the western part of the Indiana Toll Road earlier this summer.

This reminds me of the story relating to data roaming with Verizon Wireless, where they quoted the rates at 0.002¢/KB, but charged $0.002/KB.  Apparently no one at Verizon Wireless could be made to understand that those two values are not equal.