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Started by FLRoads, January 20, 2009, 04:01:44 PM

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shoptb1



shoptb1

Also, does anyone know what the original Ohio shield was that was covered up (and not very well) by the US-33 shield in this picture?


WNYroadgeek

I would assume it was an OH-33 shield.

agentsteel53

Quote from: Crewdawg on June 20, 2010, 12:46:18 AM
Didn't get a photo but saw a US 89 off of US 93 southbound the other day.

is that in Arizona?  If so, is that an error, or - could it be? - a remnant of old US-89?
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Crewdawg

Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 21, 2010, 12:47:32 AM
Quote from: Crewdawg on June 20, 2010, 12:46:18 AM
Didn't get a photo but saw a US 89 off of US 93 southbound the other day.

is that in Arizona?  If so, is that an error, or - could it be? - a remnant of old US-89?

yes that is in Arizona. No it isn't a remnant it is a new sign have driven on that stretch of US93 a lot and haven't seen it before.

froggie

Here's a recent one.  It'll be fixed by tomorrow, so no photo opportunity.

agentsteel53

Quote from: froggie on June 22, 2010, 04:47:40 PM
Here's a recent one.  It'll be fixed by tomorrow, so no photo opportunity.


damn Maryland neutering its shields; I'd have rather liked to add a Maryland I-85 sign to the shield gallery.
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cu2010

The I-85 shield doesn't appear to be the only error on that sign...I spot at least two more...
This is cu2010, reminding you, help control the ugly sign population, don't have your shields spayed or neutered.

agentsteel53

Quote from: cu2010 on June 22, 2010, 05:10:45 PM
The I-85 shield doesn't appear to be the only error on that sign...I spot at least two more...

I note the problematic "K" at the end of Patrick, but cannot tell if that is really uppercase, or just an artifact of the small image.

what is the third?
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froggie

The lowercase "k" at the end of Frederick.

Scott5114

Looks like the "PatricK" K and the "FREDERICk" K's need to be swapped.
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#636
One of the TollRoadsNews people found the sign for I-85 on I-70 in Frederick, MD http://tollroadsnews.com/node/4806

EDIT: Sorry Froggie, I didn't realize when I posted this that you already had until today.
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agentsteel53

yep, this photo is much better quality.  I wonder if they'll let us use it on the shield gallery.

indeed, the two K's need to be swapped!  Wonder how that happens on a retroreflective sign - a button copy sign I could understand, if one person selects the set of letters that need to be applied to a given sign, and another actually rivets them in place.
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rawmustard

Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 23, 2010, 10:28:50 AM
yep, this photo is much better quality.  I wonder if they'll let us use it on the shield gallery.

The photo belongs to the Frederick News-Post, which was also used (albeit in reduced form) in the WTOP article Froggie tweeted yesterday.

froggie

I didn't (and won't) have a chance to get up there, but I believe Michael Pruett (of mdroads.com) got a photo of it...

Scott5114

Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 23, 2010, 10:28:50 AM
yep, this photo is much better quality.  I wonder if they'll let us use it on the shield gallery.

indeed, the two K's need to be swapped!  Wonder how that happens on a retroreflective sign - a button copy sign I could understand, if one person selects the set of letters that need to be applied to a given sign, and another actually rivets them in place.

I believe Maryland uses demountable copy. Certainly seemed that way whenever I was there in 2007.
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agentsteel53

Quote from: Scott5114 on June 23, 2010, 02:33:05 PM

I believe Maryland uses demountable copy. Certainly seemed that way whenever I was there in 2007.

here I thought many states had switched over to monolithic signs because they are less expensive to make using computers.
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florida

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So many roads...so little time.

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Quote from: shoptb1 on June 20, 2010, 11:47:24 PM
Also, does anyone know what the original Ohio shield was that was covered up (and not very well) by the US-33 shield in this picture?
This (as of January 2004)
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shoptb1

Quote from: osu-lsu on June 23, 2010, 09:19:24 PM
This (as of January 2004)

Thanks!  I'm surprised that they did such a crappy job of correcting it, and that they haven't done the opposite correction down on the following sign with "US-32". 

D-Dey65

Anybody remember that erroneous US 27 sign placed on Sunrise Highway several years ago? Well somebody who made this bumper sticker stuck to that error despite the correction by NYSDOT #10.



florida

That's cool! I would buy one.
So many roads...so little time.

US71

Quote from: florida on June 25, 2010, 12:55:00 PM
That's cool! I would buy one.

Design it and sell it on Cafe Press ;)
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InterstateNG

No photo, but both the 1-mile and 1/2-mile BGS's eastbound on the new US-24 expressway have OH-127 shields instead of US-127.
I demand an apology.

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