Erroneous road signs

[jwolfer]

A couple of FL 90 shields I spotted on US 90 in Gretna, FL and near Quincy, FL last week. New installs too.
Erroneous FL 90 Shield by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Erroneous FL 90 Shield by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Erroneous FL 90 Shield by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Erroneous FL 90 Shield by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

Back in 1991 when Beach Blvd (US 90 from downtown  Jacksonville to the beach) in Jacksonville was resurfaced the signs were replaced. There were SR90 signs for a few weeks. 

I assumed it was because they did not have blue US 90 shields available
But the black and white us shields should not be a problem.

[WillWeaverRVA]

Credit to Angelfire.com



Your font is too bold. Please stop. It's getting to me. Just stop messing around with the bold feature.

Angelfire has long disallowed hotlinking of images. You're gonna need to download the image and host it somewhere else.

[noelbotevera]

Credit to Angelfire.com



Your font is too bold. Please stop. It's getting to me. Just stop messing around with the bold feature.

Angelfire has long disallowed hotlinking of images. You're gonna need to download the image and host it somewhere else.

Right. It's supposed to be another sign from Oklahoma, but I'll try my best with another picture. Hope this works.

Courtesy of billburmaster.com

[PHLBOS]

Courtesy of billburmaster.com

Control-city fonts looks to be Series EE (maybe even Series F) with inadequate spacing.

[texaskdog]

The Business I-363 is still in Temple on I-35.  With construction there is nowhere to pull over to get a good picture and I can't find it on streetview.  It is on NB I-35 just before the exit ramp to Bucees.

[Mapmikey]

The Business I-363 is still in Temple on I-35.  With construction there is nowhere to pull over to get a good picture and I can't find it on streetview.  It is on NB I-35 just before the exit ramp to Bucees.

Here it is in GMSV:

https://goo.gl/maps/GqPMZMTMC842

[WNYroadgeek]

Sryacuse Airport?



http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/07/sign_on_i-481_near_syracuse_misspells_citys_name.html

Seems to be a fairly new installation, since the signage in the most recent GSV imagery of the interchange (taken last October) is correct.

EDIT: It was installed last week, according to a comment in the linked article.

[kphoger]

Because our brains are so good unscrambling words as long as the initial and final letters are in place, I didn't catch the error the first three times I looked at the picture.

[7/8]

Yep, I'll admit I didn't see anything wrong until I read the URL title 

[mass_citizen]

looks like some excessive spacing between words as well?

[cl94]

I was a bit startled when I saw this sign today in the City of Saratoga Springs on WB NY 29. Even thought the city maintains this stretch, it's on Z-bars, leading me to believe that NYSDOT installed the sign. Ironically, one of the only "city speed limit" signs in the city is a few blocks west of here, also on WB NY 29 (Saratoga Springs usually uses "area speed limit").

Of course, Saratoga is an oddity in many ways, as it's also one of the only cities where reference markers do not reset at the city line (I-87, NY 9L, and NY 50 confirmed, likely others as well) and it includes quite a bit of undeveloped land.

[machias]

looks like some excessive spacing between words as well?

The plans for contract D263008 showed small representations of the signs for placement location but I couldn't find any full scale sign layouts. This leads me to believe that the contractor (Elderlee, Inc.) designed (or redesigned) the signs, leading to the misspelling and the huge amount of space between "Sryacuse" and "Airport".  The signs on D263008 for the airport are all correct (the NY 11 shields is another matter).

Mistakes happen. I get that. But someone on the installation crew must have noticed that the sign was incorrect and they chose to install it anyway. I don't know how anyone with any sort of pride in their work can do that. A sign of the current state of the United States: quick, cheap and "it ain't my job".

[7/8]

I believe the sign on the left on Victoria St/Hwy 7 in Kitchener is technically not correct.



The Hwy 7 shield here is a junction shield, but I think it should instead be like this shield below.


^ Photo credit: AsphaltPlanet

[odditude]

I believe the sign on the left on Victoria St/Hwy 7 in Kitchener is technically not correct.

for the purposes of these threads, this one belongs in "Design Errors" - while they definitely screwed up, it's not in a way that makes the information presented incorrect.

that being said, good find!

[chays]

This sign is at the top of a T-intersection (see here at Wilson and Lakeview: https://www.google.com/maps/@28.7580818,-81.3357706,18.28z).  It seems to indicated to driver that both directions end at a dead end, which isn't the case at all.  This is the wrong use of a dead end sign.

[US71]

Defiance, Missouri

[kphoger]

Defiance, Missouri

I didn't notice it at first.
Well, technically, it is a state highway, so......... nope, still wrong.

[TravelingBethelite]

So I guess that sign is in "Defiance" of the state MUTCD? 

Anyway I saw this about a week ago about 2 miles south of Patterson, NY:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.49295,-73.5788794,3a,25y,252.54h,83.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sflOSdDsVI8lIEcbvw0dFYQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DflOSdDsVI8lIEcbvw0dFYQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D86.094238%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[US71]

Along the KATY Trail, should be MO 94

[7/8]

Signs on the 401 and 407 for Hurontario St call it "Highway 10", even though Highway 10 was decommissioned in Brampton and Mississauga for two decades now. Here's a picture I took for the 407 exit for Hurontario St. I know a lot of people still call it highway 10, but it's still incorrect.

[Quillz]

Not quite...



A bit closer, but still wrong...

[noelbotevera]

A bit closer, but still wrong...

Shouldn't it be Cabrillo Freeway?

[formulanone]

VA 89 gets a downgrade to secondary at the Blue Ridge Parkway:



VA 639 gets a temporary upgrade for this detour sign:

[mass_citizen]

Fresh install on I-93 SB, Medford, MA just after the MA-38 exit. It is part of the RTTM statewide project, the time displays are not active yet. Based on my odometer, the Zakim bridge should read "3 MI"

As usual, the contractor that put this sign in did not stop and wonder how the Mass Ave exit which is on the complete opposite end of the artery tunnel could be the same distance as the Zakim. 

[bob7374]

Fresh install on I-93 SB, Medford, MA just after the MA-38 exit. It is part of the RTTM statewide project, the time displays are not active yet. Based on my odometer, the Zakim bridge should read "3 MI"

As usual, the contractor that put this sign in did not stop and wonder how the Mass Ave exit which is on the complete opposite end of the artery tunnel could be the same distance as the Zakim. 

This is a contractor error, not MassDOT's, the original sign plan lists 5 miles to the Mass Ave exit. Here's the sign drawing: