Unique, Odd, or Interesting Signs aka The good, the bad, and the ugly

[FredAkbar]

Saw a couple of signs coming up I-5 or thereabouts with an odd font on one of the numbers. Here's one of them: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8031443,-120.7413148,3a,75y,352.39h,78.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbJ1tKvQwXDrqnwYdDgQxSw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1

(Can't remember where the other one was.)

[wanderer2575]

The northernmost 56 miles of I-75 are getting new signs, including bilingual weight limit signing for the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie:

Something else I just noticed on the sign plans:  I think this is Michigan's first use of the word "toll" instead of "fare" on BGSs.  New standard?

[J N Winkler]

Something else I just noticed on the sign plans:  I think this is Michigan's first use of the word "toll" instead of "fare" on BGSs.  New standard?

I don't know.  Practitioners do occasionally look at this forum, and I think past comments about the "fare" verbiage might have prompted a rethink.  I don't think we ever discovered why the signs say "fare" when the enabling legislation for, e.g., the Mackinac Bridge authority uses the term "toll."

[roadman65]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52168825081_4c28cc12b2_k.jpg



The TO GA 216 is an oddity.

[zachary_amaryllis]

Saw a couple of signs coming up I-5 or thereabouts with an odd font on one of the numbers. Here's one of them: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8031443,-120.7413148,3a,75y,352.39h,78.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbJ1tKvQwXDrqnwYdDgQxSw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1

(Can't remember where the other one was.)

Unless my Spanish is way off, doesn't that sign say it's 20 miles to the bathrooms?

[JayhawkCO]

Unless my Spanish is way off, doesn't that sign say it's 20 miles to the bathrooms?

It could be translated that way. In this case, it's "the baths".

[JayhawkCO]

Found this super old CO state shield the other day. I don't know that I've seen one that old still up anywhere in the state (and I've been damn near everywhere).



Location

[mrsman]

Unless my Spanish is way off, doesn't that sign say it's 20 miles to the bathrooms?

It could be translated that way. In this case, it's "the baths".

Happens to be the name of the town, but given the barren nature of I-5 along this stretch, it may literally be your first opportunity to use the bathroom.

[thenetwork]

Found this super old CO state shield the other day. I don't know that I've seen one that old still up anywhere in the state (and I've been damn near everywhere).



Location

Meh, it's the current design...Unless there is a really old installation sticker on it, there's nothing spectacular about it that I can see.

[Dirt Roads]

Found this super old CO state shield the other day. I don't know that I've seen one that old still up anywhere in the state (and I've been damn near everywhere).



Location

Meh, it's the current design...Unless there is a really old installation sticker on it, there's nothing spectacular about it that I can see.

Isn't it the font that is the issue here?  Here's the current CDOT font (courtesy of our friends at AARoads sign gallery):

[Big John]

^^No yellow circle inside the 'C"?

[roadman65]

Typical GDOT, but circumventing the Cuthbert Square, it can be hard to comprehend.


Plus the TO inside the GA 216 shield is rather unique.

[thenetwork]

^^No yellow circle inside the 'C"?

On a lot of the Colorado shields, the yellow circle is usually the first color to fade on the sign.

[JayhawkCO]

Isn't it the font that is the issue here?  Here's the current CDOT font (courtesy of our friends at AARoads sign gallery):

Yep, old font and different color blue on the top. I remember these a lot when I moved here in 1992.

[roadman65]

https://goo.gl/maps/A3xVTF6LiAeEhi8Y6
Need I say more.


Edit: Yes I can.
https://goo.gl/maps/bPCeTgvocu5eYP74A


NCDOT, although not contradictory, is cheap instead.   Why not replace the guide sign and add US 258 South to it.

Maybe once I-587 takes over and US 264 reverts back to its old alignment we may see the shields here go as I imagine US 258 will revert back to Main Street in Farmville as well.

[roadman65]

This advisory speed tab on the EXIT gore sign is a bit unusual. 

[Big John]

^^

1. I's supposed to be yellow.

2. The advisory speed does not match the sign to the right.

[Ted$8roadFan]

Saw a couple of signs coming up I-5 or thereabouts with an odd font on one of the numbers. Here's one of them: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8031443,-120.7413148,3a,75y,352.39h,78.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbJ1tKvQwXDrqnwYdDgQxSw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1

(Can't remember where the other one was.)

Unless my Spanish is way off, doesn't that sign say it's 20 miles to the bathrooms?

Indeed it is. 

[kphoger]

I mean, the whole sign is in Spanish, so...  It's apparently also 136 miles to receive Holy Communion.

(Pedro Múñoz wrote that, upon arrival to the valley in 1808, officer/explorer Gabriel Moraga compared the air to champagne, and inhaling it to receiving the sacrament.  Thus the river and the valley were originally named "The Most Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ", and the city that was later established there was named after the river:  Sacramento.)

[LilianaUwU]

While the English part of this assembly assumes PE 2 doesn't exist with TCH 1 ("TO"), the French part assumes it does ("ET", "and"):

To/Et 2 by Liliana Vess, on Flickr

[jay8g]

Weird to see WSDOT making a mistake like this... the letters in "Bothell" on this sign aren't even close to the same size! I drove by here today, and it looks even worse in person than in Street View. It starts out looking like the standard 3/4 error, but then the h and e seem to be the same size as the capital B.

[Scott5114]

Bot hell.

[LilianaUwU]

Bot hell.

I think the name you're looking for is Twitter. 

[hotdogPi]

Portal, a game made by Valve, has a room described as "android hell" (referring to robots, not smartphones). Valve's headquarters is only 8 miles from Bothell.

[jakeroot]

Portal, a game made by Valve, has a room described as "android hell" (referring to robots, not smartphones). Valve's headquarters is only 8 miles from Bothell.

I'm not much further than Valve's headquarters, and I have never seen heard anyone make that "Bot Hell" joke.

In fact, I've only seen it referenced once before. And it was by Scott:

Bothell

I'm sure that it's incorrect, but, not ever having been to Washington, I can't help but mentally pronounce this as Bot Hell every time I see it somewhere. Where evil robots go to die.