The Worst of Road Signs

[US71]

On US-79/80 in downtown Shreveport. Look at the Louisiana 1 shield

That's nothing
This one is uglier (but gone):

[vtk]

To me, that one's not so bad.

We need a thread for signs that aren't the worst, but are awkward or have minor problems that should be easily avoidable.  And someone should bring back Frankensign to remind us all what the worst actually looks like.

PS, that LA 1 shield was featured on the first page of this thread.

[agentsteel53]

Frankensign

is that that green guide sign in Virginia which has half new legend and half old?

[agentsteel53]

the I-15 is a custom font that Nevada uses on occasion.



the Texas 5 looks almost like Series F...

[Takumi]

Frankensign

is that that green guide sign in Virginia which has half new legend and half old?

Yeah. I think it's been replaced, finally.

But, for reference, here it is again.

Behold...Frankensign!

[bulkyorled]

Found this, this morning in Gardena, CA. Some awkward bastardization of I-110... it was also awkwardly small too

It looks like a mushroom.  Where's Mario and Luigi?

HAHA thats funny it does kind of look like that doesnt it. Ive not been able to find another one of these either...

[txstateends]

As Scott said, see this post for the disastrous Boise City bypass

Others from the last few weeks:

Never seen Series E (?) on a Texas shield before- at US-380 and SH 5

The TX 5 shield style has been pretty much par for the course since TxDOT went to that dimension of state highway shield shape (about the same time as the last of the cutout US shields went to the black background type).  I do remember the "5" on the smaller shields back in the day, it wasn't so stretched, like now.

[route56]

A pair of ugly Ped Xing signs in Atchison..

[PurdueBill]

What are they doing--dancing?  Where are the school children's books/lunchboxes that they carry in the standard sign?  Madness!

[national highway 1]

A pair of ugly Ped Xing signs in Atchison..

Trespassing onto a light rail ROW?
That's potential suicide!

[PurdueBill]

A pair of ugly Ped Xing signs in Atchison..

Trespassing onto a light rail ROW?
That's potential suicide!

What is ONE stick figure doing inside the pentagon shape, anyway?  Pentagonal school sign gets two figures.  Diamond Ped Xing gets one.  Where do they get these?!?!?

[Brandon]

A pair of ugly Ped Xing signs in Atchison..

Trespassing onto a light rail ROW?
That's potential suicide!

Actually, the lines are for a crosswalk.

[national highway 1]

As Scott said, see this post for the disastrous Boise City bypass

Others from the last few weeks:

On I-15 north of Las Vegas...what IS that font, anyway?

That US 93 shield reminds me of this disasterous US 97 shield from the Northwest:

It has jowls!

[bulkyorled]

A pair of ugly Ped Xing signs in Atchison..

They look challenged by walking. Drunk walking perhaps

[thenetwork]

A pair of ugly Ped Xing signs in Atchison..

They look challenged by walking. Drunk walking perhaps

Comparing the two pix, it looks like Mr. Stickfigure got his right arm amputated just above the wrist, as did his "sticknificant other".

[Mapmikey]

There was one of these signs in each direction on US 29 in Woods Mill, VA when I drove through this morning.  Sorry about the pic quality...sun angle was not good.



I have seen rectangle signs with leading zeros which look off but not as hideous as a 006 in a Virginia State Route shield...




Mapmikey

[Jim]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but it's got enough problems that it's worth complaining about again.  I-190 North on Grand Island, NY.

[agentsteel53]

a 006 in a Virginia State Route shield...

do you have a photo of this?

Sonora really likes its leading zeros... padding Mexican federal routes to two digits (02, 08), and state routes to three (043, etc).

[agentsteel53]

what is that awful font used on everything but the route shields?  Helvetica Bold stretched horizontally by 20%?

the route shield font ain't great either...

[Mapmikey]

a 006 in a Virginia State Route shield...

do you have a photo of this?

It's the first photo in my post...

[route56]

I have seen rectangle signs with leading zeros which look off but not as hideous as a 006 in a Virginia State Route shield...

Any chance there is a 007 out there somewhere....

[Alex]

Spotted this sad excuse for a US shield in Cumberland two weeks ago. Looks sort of like an acorn...

[agentsteel53]

those shields are all over Pennsylvania.  I feel like I've seen them in Indiana as well.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

Which brings us to this ugly 101 shield in Salinas:

[thenetwork]

Spotted this sad excuse for a US shield in Cumberland two weeks ago. Looks sort of like an acorn...

Okay, I know what a white-on-blue "H" sign means HOSPITAL, white-on-blue "P" sign means POLICE and white-on-blue "?" means INFORMATION, but what the heck does the white-on-blue "Y" sign on the left side of that photo mean???