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1995hoo

#2350
June 17, 2013, 09:42:06 AM  
We went out to one of the wineries in Virginia on Saturday and on the way home Ms1995hoo suggested we go up to Harpers Ferry since neither of us had been there in many years (this proved to be a mistake due to horrendous traffic). En route I noted the sign seen below on US-340 in West Virginia between Charles Town and Harpers Ferry; the sign is about a mile west of the turn for the national historic park and there's another similar sign visible up that hill in the distance. It's erroneous because the road is not a "freeway" at all except insofar as the road's memorial name is Something-or-Other Freeway. Note the at-grade intersection up ahead. The road has a bunch of traffic lights in the Charles Town area, but the businesses are all on frontage roads so I guess the term "expressway" would be appropriate. I suppose, though, that this is an example how in this part of the country the word "expressway" is usually understood to mean the type of road the MUTCD calls a "freeway."

After the "freeway" ends, it narrows down to a two-lane road to descend to the bridge over the Shenandoah River and continues as a two-lane road through a tiny piece of Virginia.

(Picture is from AARoads.com. I was driving my wife's car and so didn't want to mess with a camera because she doesn't like it when I do that.)

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CentralCAroadgeek

#2351
June 17, 2013, 02:11:41 PM  
So going around town yesterday and I stumbled upon this sign error on the US-101 onramp from Laurel Road here in Salinas. I don't have a picture of it, so I'll just describe it using two other pictures of mine.

It is basically this sign:


Where this old gem once stood:


Yes, I typed that correctly, a CA-1 directional sign on a US-101 onramp. Fail.

agentsteel53

#2352
June 17, 2013, 02:17:39 PM  
does the freeway entrance gantry still have a US-101 shield?
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CentralCAroadgeek

#2353
June 17, 2013, 02:20:07 PM  
Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 17, 2013, 02:17:39 PM
does the freeway entrance gantry still have a US-101 shield?

Yes. Yes it does.

NE2

#2354
June 17, 2013, 02:33:39 PM  
Er... that first photo is on Del Monte at SR 1 in (?) Monterey.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.603557,-121.863055&spn=0.01571,0.033023&gl=us&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=36.603606,-121.862963&panoid=_N1sAePg0h5OKP5weWCVjQ&cbp=12,52.28,,0,-0.06
Oops. I missed the part about it being a different location.
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Thing 342

#2355
June 17, 2013, 09:50:09 PM  
This one has been wrong for at least ten years (It should say VA 171). First it was a circular secondary shield, but a few years ago, a car ran into it and they replaced it with this:

vtk

#2356
June 18, 2013, 03:43:22 AM  
At least they followed the 70-spec US route design correctly.
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

KEK Inc.

#2357
June 18, 2013, 08:50:38 AM  
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on June 17, 2013, 02:11:41 PM
So going around town yesterday and I stumbled upon this sign error on the US-101 onramp from Laurel Road here in Salinas. I don't have a picture of it, so I'll just describe it using two other pictures of mine.

It is basically this sign:


Where this old gem once stood:


Yes, I typed that correctly, a CA-1 directional sign on a US-101 onramp. Fail.

The county must have been lazy.   Do you think it's a recycled sign?  Perhaps an accident caused the sign to need a quick replace, and the county or CalTrans didn't pay attention? 
Take the road less traveled.

elsmere241

#2358
June 18, 2013, 10:05:58 AM  
Quote from: 1995hoo on June 17, 2013, 09:42:06 AM
We went out to one of the wineries in Virginia on Saturday and on the way home Ms1995hoo suggested we go up to Harpers Ferry since neither of us had been there in many years (this proved to be a mistake due to horrendous traffic). En route I noted the sign seen below on US-340 in West Virginia between Charles Town and Harpers Ferry; the sign is about a mile west of the turn for the national historic park and there's another similar sign visible up that hill in the distance. It's erroneous because the road is not a "freeway" at all except insofar as the road's memorial name is Something-or-Other Freeway. Note the at-grade intersection up ahead. The road has a bunch of traffic lights in the Charles Town area, but the businesses are all on frontage roads so I guess the term "expressway" would be appropriate. I suppose, though, that this is an example how in this part of the country the word "expressway" is usually understood to mean the type of road the MUTCD calls a "freeway."

After the "freeway" ends, it narrows down to a two-lane road to descend to the bridge over the Shenandoah River and continues as a two-lane road through a tiny piece of Virginia.

(Picture is from AARoads.com. I was driving my wife's car and so didn't want to mess with a camera because she doesn't like it when I do that.)


Quote from: 1995hoo on June 17, 2013, 09:42:06 AM
We went out to one of the wineries in Virginia on Saturday and on the way home Ms1995hoo suggested we go up to Harpers Ferry since neither of us had been there in many years (this proved to be a mistake due to horrendous traffic). En route I noted the sign seen below on US-340 in West Virginia between Charles Town and Harpers Ferry; the sign is about a mile west of the turn for the national historic park and there's another similar sign visible up that hill in the distance. It's erroneous because the road is not a "freeway" at all except insofar as the road's memorial name is Something-or-Other Freeway. Note the at-grade intersection up ahead. The road has a bunch of traffic lights in the Charles Town area, but the businesses are all on frontage roads so I guess the term "expressway" would be appropriate. I suppose, though, that this is an example how in this part of the country the word "expressway" is usually understood to mean the type of road the MUTCD calls a "freeway."

After the "freeway" ends, it narrows down to a two-lane road to descend to the bridge over the Shenandoah River and continues as a two-lane road through a tiny piece of Virginia.

(Picture is from AARoads.com. I was driving my wife's car and so didn't want to mess with a camera because she doesn't like it when I do that.)



Going south on US 340 in that area I remember seeing several signs like that: "Freeway Ends 1 Mile" and a mile later there would be a light; right away, "Freeway Ends 2 Miles" and then there would be a light after two miles, etc.

formulanone

#2359
June 18, 2013, 01:20:17 PM  
Quote from: Thing 342 on June 17, 2013, 09:50:09 PM
This one has been wrong for at least ten years (It should say VA 171). First it was a circular secondary shield, but a few years ago, a car ran into it and they replaced it...

Downgraded, then upgraded, cosmic balance has been achieved.

It had better be a good sign in this iteration, or it will be humbled to Frontage road status. :)

CentralCAroadgeek

#2360
June 18, 2013, 01:49:06 PM  
Quote from: KEK Inc. on June 18, 2013, 08:50:38 AM
Quote from: CentralCAroadgeek on June 17, 2013, 02:11:41 PM
So going around town yesterday and I stumbled upon this sign error on the US-101 onramp from Laurel Road here in Salinas. I don't have a picture of it, so I'll just describe it using two other pictures of mine.

It is basically this sign:


Where this old gem once stood:


Yes, I typed that correctly, a CA-1 directional sign on a US-101 onramp. Fail.

The county must have been lazy.   Do you think it's a recycled sign?  Perhaps an accident caused the sign to need a quick replace, and the county or CalTrans didn't pay attention? 

I am not entirely sure how the old sign disappeared. That thing's been gone for months and it was only recently (just this Sunday) that I was surprised to see the erroneous sign.

roadman65

#2361
June 22, 2013, 05:35:33 PM  
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sp_redelectric

#2362
June 23, 2013, 11:56:32 AM  
Quote from: 1995hoo on June 17, 2013, 09:42:06 AM

At least there is a sign.  At the western end of the "freeway" of U.S. 26 between North Plains and Banks, there is an exit for Dersham Road, then the road splits for Oregon 6 and U.S. 26 (both of which continue west as two-lane, undivided highways).  Just before the split is an at-grade intersection for Mountaindale Road.  At no point is there an "Freeway Ends" sign

On Oregon 217, there is a "Freeway Ends" sign northbound at the U.S. 26 split, even though two of the four routes (the two main routes, mind you) both are freeway-to-freeway ramps from 217 to U.S. 26.  But at the southbound end, where the mainline goes to a traffic light for the I-5 southbound off-ramp, there is no "Freeway Ends" sign - the light is even located behind an overpass structure and is difficult to see, especially at 55 MPH to come to a complete stop.

sp_redelectric

#2363
June 25, 2013, 04:00:25 PM  
One of my favorite "error" signs...

The sign is located on S.W. Barbur Boulevard/Oregon 99W...but it's well over a mile outside of Tigard city limits, and definitely more than a mile from Tigard city center.

NE2

#2364
June 25, 2013, 04:06:53 PM  
Quote from: sp_redelectric on June 25, 2013, 04:00:25 PM
One of my favorite "error" signs...

The sign is located on S.W. Barbur Boulevard/Oregon 99W...but it's well over a mile outside of Tigard city limits, and definitely more than a mile from Tigard city center.
1.4 miles to the entering Tigard sign just past 65th.
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formulanone

#2365
July 01, 2013, 10:01:30 PM   Last Edit: December 06, 2018, 04:42:30 PM by formulanone
US Route 120? I guess if NY 120A and CT 120A are nearby...make something up.



Hangard.


roadfro

#2366
July 01, 2013, 11:00:37 PM  
Awful fonts on those first two, as well as horrible Interstate shields... "Worst of" candidates...
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PHLBOS

#2367
July 02, 2013, 01:14:49 PM  
Quote from: roadfro on July 01, 2013, 11:00:37 PM
Awful fonts on those first two, as well as horrible Interstate shields... "Worst of" candidates...
The fonts aren't so bad; it's just that the letters are needlessly squeezed together.

I agree that the I-684 shields on the first two pics are horrid IMHO; the on on the 3rd pic. isn't too bad.
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Zeffy

#2368
July 02, 2013, 01:37:36 PM  
Quote from: formulanone on July 01, 2013, 10:01:30 PM
US Route 120? I guess if NY 120A and CT 120A are nearby...make something up.


How do Interstate shields get mutilated so bad...
Life would be boring if we didn't take an offramp every once in a while

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ET21

#2369
July 02, 2013, 03:09:29 PM  
Quote from: Zeffy on July 02, 2013, 01:37:36 PM
Quote from: formulanone on July 01, 2013, 10:01:30 PM
US Route 120? I guess if NY 120A and CT 120A are nearby...make something up.


How do Interstate shields get mutilated so bad...

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MI: I-94, I-196
MN: I-90

Molandfreak

#2370
July 02, 2013, 10:09:48 PM  
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92333578@N06/9197424410/

U.S. 87 in South Dakota. Taken on SD 87 at the south junction with U.S. 385.
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Scott5114

#2371
July 03, 2013, 05:03:33 AM  
Also, note the horrible arrows and "Hangard", whatever that is.
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SidS1045

#2372
July 03, 2013, 10:12:56 AM  
Quote from: Scott5114 on July 03, 2013, 05:03:33 AM
Also, note the horrible arrows and "Hangard", whatever that is.

Go back to the first sign in that series, and you'll see what they did.  It was supposed to be "Hangar D."
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Zeffy

#2373
July 03, 2013, 02:10:15 PM  


I blame Clearview for this. While you're making the sign just seeing the font makes one lose their mind, and suddenly they forget how to spell.

Source: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/Oops_Road_sign_gaffe_is_a_laugher.html
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agentsteel53

#2374
July 03, 2013, 02:14:43 PM  
the use of Clearview isn't nearly as bad as what appears to be an extra-bloated '70 spec shield.  WTF?
live from sunny San Diego.

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