Left-aligned exit tabs on signs for normal (right-hand) exits

Started by KCRoadFan, October 05, 2024, 06:18:12 PM

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KCRoadFan

Whenever there's a left exit, the sign will often have the exit tab aligned to the left as a visual cue - sometimes with the word "LEFT" added above the word "EXIT" for emphasis.

With that in mind, when I was driving north on I-35 from KC to Des Moines this past Wednesday, on the first leg of a trip to visit my brother in Madison, WI, I happened to notice that Exit 48 for US 69, just south of Cameron, has a sign with a left-aligned exit tab - however, the exit is just a normal right-hand exit. Throughout the country, where else have you seen that signage phenomenon, of right-hand exits with the tab on the left side of the sign?


vdeane

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-- US 175 --

Until a set of BGS updates north of I-635 on US 75 in the last few months, the NB exit to Legacy Drive in Plano, TX had a left tab for the exit.  A quick check of GSV history showed a BGS change there between January 2017 and August 2018.  In that change, a new Legacy Drive BGS appeared with the left tab on top.  The left-side tab in that assembly was never fixed.  Now with the new BGS assembly of the last several months, the tab is right/correct again.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7LQ2f2vbtYYU3Di18?g_st=ac

(AFAIK, I've not run across any other incorrectly-left exit tabs near me.)

1995hoo

When the I-495 HO/T lanes in Virginia opened about 12 years ago, there were a fair number of them when there were two exit signs on a gantry. The sign for the first exit ahead would have the tab on the right and then the sign for a further exit would have it on the left, so I suspect someone was trying to "balance" the tabs for appearance reasons. I reported them to VDOT as wrong and they changed them.

Edited to add: I searched my old e-mail and it was March 2012 when I reported them. They don't show up on Street View because the previous image is from before the signs were posted and the camera didn't go through again until after the signs were fixed.
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