The Worst of Road Signs

[Ian]

[generic Maryland guide sign]

Huh?

My thoughts exactly.  I didn't exactly go, Holy crap, that's the worst of road signs, when I saw it....

The only thing that jumps out at me is the tiny text in the gargantuan exit tab. But that's just Maryland being Maryland.

[Duke87]

Or the fact that it's Clearview, but that's also just Maryland being Maryland.

[Scott5114]

Or the arrow halfway between centered and right aligned, but that's...

[national highway 1]

[generic Maryland guide sign]

Huh?

My thoughts exactly.  I didn't exactly go, Holy crap, that's the worst of road signs, when I saw it....

The only thing that jumps out at me is the tiny text in the gargantuan exit tab. But that's just Maryland being Maryland.

Actually it's the excessive spacing between 'EXIT' and '74'.

[vtk]

Mis-centered arrow, huge gap between EXIT and its number, overuse of Clearview, questionable BGS-variant design for state route marker; definitely "signs with design errors" territory, but probably not "worst of".  (Especially if most Maryland guide signs have the same problems...)

[kj3400]

I should think they don't....just the new ones...

[Eth]

Yeah, that's just a perfectly average Maryland BGS.  You become numb to them after a while.

[hbelkins]

Sorry, but this old US 202 sign has to go here:

[vtk]

What's the deal with that 7 in the Interstate shield?

[Ian]

What's the deal with that 7 in the Interstate shield?

Looks to be the old NYSDOT font.

[agentsteel53]

NY had some varieties

[national highway 1]

The US 6 shield has jowls!

[hbelkins]

There are a few of those "jowly" US shields in the Roanoke, Va. area, I think. I know I've seen them somewhere before but can't remember where.

[zorb58]

Alright, so I'm sitting here going though this post, listening to music, minding my own business, and I glance up to the Ole Miss and Texas game on tv only to catch a glimpse of a green guide sign style speed limit regulatory sign that was in the background of an interview.

[hbelkins]

Found 'em. They're from my Michael Summa collection. Adam Prince calls 'em "chipmunk shields."

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

I'm sorry but I don't like diamond signs with the "suggested" speed stuck onto the sign as an after-thought.
In this instance, this is along Morrow County (Ohio) Road 15, about a mile west from my house. I had to crank the zoom on my camera all the way up to show the '35'


In this next instance, there is nothing wrong, style wise, with either sign. It's just that the county decided to use both numbers and names on seperate signs at an intersection. Maybe just an one time anomally.

(somewhere NE of Marietta, Ohio)

[Takumi]

I'm sorry but I don't like diamond signs with the "suggested" speed stuck onto the sign as an after-thought.

There's a whole topic about those here, although that one is definitely the worst specimen I've ever seen.

[WillWeaverRVA]

More Hopewell horrors...





And some awkward-looking new stuff on VA 195.

[Sanctimoniously]

Diagrammatical patch?

[agentsteel53]

what's wrong with the first 156 shield?  apart from it being narrow, which implies it just conforms to an older standard.

[WillWeaverRVA]

what's wrong with the first 156 shield?  apart from it being narrow, which implies it just conforms to an older standard.

The points are way too sharp, especially the top corners. Then again, it does look better than the triangular VA 36 shields in Petersburg.

[agentsteel53]

here I thought that was 1970 standard instead of 1961.  as I'm not a VA expert, I'll take your word on it that it sucks.

not a cutout.  it sucks. 

[Takumi]

There were three cutouts left in Hopewell as recently as 2006, as well as a white border unisign. Now it's down to the cutout in front of the bowling alley.

[Alps]

More Hopewell horrors...

That sure wasn't there last time I was. Is that on 156 or 10?

EDIT: I figured out the shape.

[WillWeaverRVA]

It's on VA 156 northbound, near VA 10.