Erroneous road signs

[Central Avenue]

(Picture shamelessly swiped from here, since the signs, like New Rome, no longer exist)

First of all, that website still exists?

Second, don't use quote marks around the URL in the link code on this forum.  It doesn't work that way.

Whoops, my bad, I'm used to HTML. Thanks for the reminder. >_<

But yeah, I was surprised to see it exists too. I was totally gonna pull it up from the Wayback Machine but then I was like "wait, I wonder if it's actually still there" and it turned out it was.

[Ian]

A fresh error DE 202 shield for US 202 in northern Delaware...

[Kniwt]

Newly installed on Long Island:



The story here:
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/jonse-beach-misspelled-li-parkway-sign-directs-motorists-1.5858839

Long Islanders heading to the beach for some summer fun are doing double takes. A new sign on the Robert Moses Causeway is directing them to iconic . . . Jonse Beach?
The goof has become a social media sensation -- and an embarrassment for the state Department of Transportation.

[Central Avenue]

I can't help but be amused at how news articles always try to make sign typos out to be some kind of huge high-profile blunder.

Especially seeing as how misspelled words tend to be one of the most inconsequential sign errors. (You can almost always tell what it was meant to say, so it's not actively misleading like a bad route number or lane arrow or something.)

[NE2]

They are pretty damn high-profile by definition. I think you're trying to say that they're low-effect. Unlike, say, a typo on a vertical clearance sign that causes trucks to hit an overpass.

[Central Avenue]

I guess we have a different definition of high-profile. Something that will only be seen by drivers in a specific area who happen to pass through a specific stretch of road doesn't really strike me as high-profile, especially seeing as how a good number of people would likely not even notice it if others didn't draw their attention to it.

[Roadsguy]

I wonder if confusing DE 202 in Wilmington somehow contributed to this error?

Please tell me that Route 0 shield is an error...

[sammi]

Please tell me that Route 0 shield is an error...

You sure that's not an O for Ocean?

[deathtopumpkins]

It is an O for Ocean.

[Alex]

I wonder if confusing DE 202 in Wilmington somehow contributed to this error?

Not the first time US 202 was missigned as DE 202 along that stretch:



2004 photo

[bassoon1986]

Been meaning to snag this one for a while. Should be East LA 28, not 1. This is downtown Alexandria, LA underneath the US 167 expressway.

[SidS1045]

Please tell me that Route 0 shield is an error...

The standard shield for the Long Island parkways contains the first (and sometimes the second) letter of the parkway's name.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Diagrams_of_New_York_parkway_route_markers

[Signal]

The arrows need to be switched...

[ET21]

^^^ South is straight and North is Left?

[Billy F 1988]

I think that's the original layout of the trailblazer.

NORTH       SOUTH
[US 93]      [US 93]
[left arrow] [up arrow]

[Signal]

No, sorry for not being clear. The arrows are with the correct shields, but I though it was odd that the left arrow was on the right.

[Billy F 1988]

So it's more of a placement error, then? That would mean SB US 93 has to be left, NB US 93 on the right because as I read it, you appear to head northbound.

[amroad17]

Hey, Signal.  I like your I-64 "fisheye" avatar!  Excellent!

[xonhulu]

No, sorry for not being clear. The arrows are with the correct shields, but I though it was odd that the left arrow was on the right.

I see that a lot, and it irritates me, too.  Here's an example from near where I live:



But that's just pickiness on my part -- there's nothing erroneous with the assembly, as it communicates correctly that you turn right to take OR 223, and go straight to remain on US 20.  It might even be that they deliberately put the 223 shield on the left and nearer the main road, as that's the primary information the sign needs to convey.  In fact, the US 20 shield is really unnecessary.

[hotdogPi]

Didn't take a picture, and can't find this on Google Maps, but:

NY 13/NY 34, very close to NY 79, going south, has a US 34 sign once instead of a NY 34 sign. This is in Ithaca, NY.

[Alps]

Didn't take a picture, and can't find this on Google Maps, but:

NY 13/NY 34, very close to NY 79, going south, has a US 34 sign once instead of a NY 34 sign. This is in Ithaca, NY.

Same shield, different multiplex, same town.

[hotdogPi]

Maybe it was on 96, actually.

[djsinco]

Didn't take a picture, and can't find this on Google Maps, but:

NY 13/NY 34, very close to NY 79, going south, has a US 34 sign once instead of a NY 34 sign. This is in Ithaca, NY.

Same shield, different multiplex, same town.

Same shield, different day...

[Billy F 1988]

Man, that 96 looks fugly!

[roadman65]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Orient,+NY&hl=en&ll=41.155474,-72.242875&spn=0.014444,0.035791&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=17.343453,36.650391&oq=orient,+n&t=h&hnear=Orient,+Suffolk,+New+York&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.155553,-72.242657&panoid=oFbLKVF9DlDrqs9Xo79N9g&cbp=12,90,,0,0
NY 25 does not continue straight through after the road bends, but ends abruptly.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Orient,+NY&hl=en&ll=41.155199,-72.243583&spn=0.014444,0.035791&sll=27.698638,-83.804601&sspn=17.343453,36.650391&oq=orient,+n&t=h&hnear=Orient,+Suffolk,+New+York&layer=c&cbll=41.155276,-72.243382&panoid=gh6KFJ1o5jSzOSeR-lqjKA&cbp=12,80,,0,-0.08&z=16 Should be a yellow sign being of its nature.