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

[JoePCool14]

Curious font on this Massachusetts Route 96 sign near MA 16:

Depending on who you ask, that may be classified as a "Best of" sign. That definitely looks like an older font.

[Jim]

No room for a space on line 3?  Add an extra one on line 5!

Temporary sign that was up for about a month during a truck detour during the ongoing reconstruction of New York 30 over the Mohawk River in Amsterdam.  Taken June 21, 2021.

[Big John]

^^ Ad shouldn't it be white?

[ClassicHasClass]

How about a curve sign that depicts a dog?

A dog named Arrow.

Well, it IS a double dog leg...

I thought it was a Pointer.

[tolbs17]

^^ Ad shouldn't it be white?

Or put a height restriction sign?

[kphoger]

tolbs17:  https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/html_index.htm

Another old school sign!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7786493,-77.5827599,3a,15y,319.25h,87.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shRvy2hEtDbtHCRbhIR2FIQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

^^ That is one of three acceptable keep right sight signs in the current MUTCD.

tolbs17:  Decided to still not look at the MUTCD before posting, huh?

[tolbs17]

tolbs17:  https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/html_index.htm

Another old school sign!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7786493,-77.5827599,3a,15y,319.25h,87.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shRvy2hEtDbtHCRbhIR2FIQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

^^ That is one of three acceptable keep right sight signs in the current MUTCD.

tolbs17:  Decided to still not look at the MUTCD before posting, huh?

Oh, I saw it. That was installed between 2002 and 2005 or they used the old sign when that intersection was realigned. That intersection used to be a Y where it would split off.

[kphoger]

tolbs17:  https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/html_index.htm

Another old school sign!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7786493,-77.5827599,3a,15y,319.25h,87.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shRvy2hEtDbtHCRbhIR2FIQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

^^ That is one of three acceptable keep right sight signs in the current MUTCD.

tolbs17:  Decided to still not look at the MUTCD before posting, huh?

Oh, I saw it. That was installed between 2002 and 2005 or they used the old sign when that intersection was realigned. That intersection used to be a Y where it would split off.

My point is that you called it an "old school sign", yet it's in the current edition of the MUTCD.

[tolbs17]

tolbs17:  https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/html_index.htm

Another old school sign!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7786493,-77.5827599,3a,15y,319.25h,87.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shRvy2hEtDbtHCRbhIR2FIQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

^^ That is one of three acceptable keep right sight signs in the current MUTCD.

tolbs17:  Decided to still not look at the MUTCD before posting, huh?

Oh, I saw it. That was installed between 2002 and 2005 or they used the old sign when that intersection was realigned. That intersection used to be a Y where it would split off.

My point is that you called it an "old school sign", yet it's in the current edition of the MUTCD.

http://www.andrewturnbull.net/signs-r.html

[hotdogPi]

I would expect an old school sign to be near a school or former school.

[tolbs17]

Different color.  Is it good, bad, or ugly?

But seems like DelDOT seems to like the old fashioned signs so they installed the old yellow-orange type.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6493732,-75.7477587,3a,25.8y,15.41h,89.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQxYziZgWCpGw1ViLWxRsWg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Edit: there's more!

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7766977,-75.5963465,3a,32.3y,19.5h,87.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sImSrNIuuHOxX19IZFOuB7w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[Jim]

Not something I recall seeing anywhere else:



This is on Florida 82 West on July 4, 2021.  A little before, I saw a similar "End" sign but didn't get a picture.  I think a "Leaving" and "Entering" would be more clear.

[ethanhopkin14]

Not something I recall seeing anywhere else:



This is on Florida 82 West on July 4, 2021.  A little before, I saw a similar "End" sign but didn't get a picture.  I think a "Leaving" and "Entering" would be more clear.

I always found "Leaving" and "Entering" odd.  Its because the sign says xxxxx city, City Limits.  The "Entering" says you are entering the city limits, when in reality you are entering the city, not the limits.  The city limits is a line around the city, so it is just a line where the city stops.  You can't enter a line, as geometry taught us. 

[J N Winkler]

I always found "Leaving" and "Entering" odd.  Its because the sign says xxxxx city, City Limits.  The "Entering" says you are entering the city limits, when in reality you are entering the city, not the limits.  The city limits is a line around the city, so it is just a line where the city stops.  You can't enter a line, as geometry taught us.

I'm not aware of any states that currently combine the verb with a line (as opposed to a polygon) description on their standard jurisdictional limit signs.  I also think there has been a movement away from using verbs in general.  Kansas, for example, used to have county line signs of the form "Entering Johnson County/Leaving Miami County," but now the standard format is "Johnson County Line" ("County Line" receiving the small caps treatment, and only the jurisdiction being entered being shown on the sign even though the line being crossed also delimits the one being left).  Among the states that still use verbs, I think the gerund form ("Entering") predominates, although Virginia uses the active/imperative form ("Enter").

It gets kind of trippy when you cross a state line on a highway next to a railroad and the highway sign has the name of the state you are entering while the railroad monument has the name of the state you are leaving (the apparent convention among railroads is to place a locality's name on the side that belongs to that locality).

[roadfro]

Different color.  Is it good, bad, or ugly?

But seems like DelDOT seems to like the old fashioned signs so they installed the old yellow-orange type.

The standard color of warning signs for pedestrian/bicycle traffic & crossings is standard yellow. The MUTCD provides the option for agencies to use fluorescent yellow-green background color for these signs instead, and many agencies have made this option a (somewhat) standard practice.

As of the 2009 MUTCD, the only signs required to use the fluorescent yellow-green color are school zone signs. Even then, such signs using regular yellow installed before this standard was adopted may remain in use until the end of their useful service life.

[SidS1045]

Curious font on this Massachusetts Route 96 sign near MA 16:

Depending on who you ask, that may be classified as a "Best of" sign. That definitely looks like an older font.

Before Massachusetts started using the FHWA fonts, they had their own font, and this is a good example.  It was definitely different than the Maine LeHay font.

[kphoger]

tolbs17:  https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/html_index.htm

Another old school sign!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7786493,-77.5827599,3a,15y,319.25h,87.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shRvy2hEtDbtHCRbhIR2FIQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

^^ That is one of three acceptable keep right sight signs in the current MUTCD.

tolbs17:  Decided to still not look at the MUTCD before posting, huh?

Oh, I saw it. That was installed between 2002 and 2005 or they used the old sign when that intersection was realigned. That intersection used to be a Y where it would split off.

My point is that you called it an "old school sign", yet it's in the current edition of the MUTCD.

http://www.andrewturnbull.net/signs-r.html

By that argument, standard speed limit signs are "old school" as well, because the two have the same date on that webpage.  And stop signs are dinosaurs, because they predate both by seven years.

[JoePCool14]

This one hasn't stood for over 7 years, but I only just noticed on this old Street View that the gantry post on the left is literally rusting away. There's actual gaps in one of the posts. You can see in the next (future) view, the gantry is gone. Kinda scary this is!

I-290 and I-90/I-94 in Chicago, IL
https://goo.gl/maps/pyTipj9RbXQTK66g8

[roadfro]

This one hasn't stood for over 7 years, but I only just noticed on this old Street View that the gantry post on the left is literally rusting away. There's actual gaps in one of the posts. You can see in the next (future) view, the gantry is gone. Kinda scary this is!

I-290 and I-90/I-94 in Chicago, IL
https://goo.gl/maps/pyTipj9RbXQTK66g8

That's really scary! Looking through older street views, it looks like it got that way in less than a year...although that forward post appears to have been rusty or corroded for quite a while before that. I don't think steel poles used in overhead traffic signs should rust away like that, and I'd assume there was a manufacturing defect or something.

[roadman65]

https://goo.gl/maps/zHzb1QoooUtmuZyG8

A very short concurrency along US 322 in Williamstown, NJ suggested by the signage. Because of the reverse jug handle this anomaly only exists here.  NJ 42 officially starts at the intersection, but US 322 turns left here but has to use part of NJ 42 to accomplish it.

[kphoger]

Not just mounted low, but also not quite pattern-accurate.  A local job?
https://goo.gl/maps/aJHWjLjYMVStGq6f9

And more!
https://goo.gl/maps/AesSdodbg8cDnfL2A

[formulanone]

Curious font on this Massachusetts Route 96 sign near MA 16:

Depending on who you ask, that may be classified as a "Best of" sign. That definitely looks like an older font.

Before Massachusetts started using the FHWA fonts, they had their own font, and this is a good example.  It was definitely different than the Maine LeHay font.

I wasn't quite sure; it didn't look like an old sign, and didn't seem to match the font for the limited number of old DPW (?) signs I saw online.

[JoePCool14]

Not just mounted low, but also not quite pattern-accurate.  A local job?
https://goo.gl/maps/aJHWjLjYMVStGq6f9

And more!
https://goo.gl/maps/AesSdodbg8cDnfL2A

Those signs match a lot of what you see all around O'Hare. I'm not entirely sure who maintains those. It's probably not CDOT, because CDOT signs generally use the correct fonts at the very least. Des Plaines has some issues with signs, but the issues with O'Hare signage doesn't match. Not to mention, Des Plaines doesn't have jurisdiction over O'Hare, Chicago does. So I'm guessing it's some type of O'Hare internal DOT who installed those.

[roadman65]

I like this street sign in Seaview, WA.
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[D-Dey65]

How about a curve sign that depicts a dog?

A dog named Arrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNJ-WY4J4KI