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

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9NEPDjiDq959y3Hi9
Exit 23 on US 27 in Florida. This route don't use exit numbers.

[Shedingtonian]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9NEPDjiDq959y3Hi9
Exit 23 on US 27 in Florida. This route don't use exit numbers.

Another interesting thing are the two round plaques right behind that exit number sign. "DRIVE SAFELY, IN MEMORY [unintelligible]"

[wanderer2575]

Stretching a trailblazer assembly horizontally on US-36 in Mt. Vernon, OH:

[roadman65]

The way PennDOT signs the PA Turnpike.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/V2THqz9JbvspmzgP7
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DL8Cw4YtwKJxnK336

Same road, but one direction uses a shield while the other uses text for the same Turnpike that the freeway indirectly connect to.

[wanderer2575]

^  That brings to mind the design of the advance signs on I-96 at US-23 in Brighton.  These were all in the same construction/signing project.

Westbound, the US-23 shields are to the left of the control cities, making the signs close enough in height that they're mounted on the gantries with the bottom edges lined up:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CT6hJ44LnUPKUuRQ9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/3y7kzokxr3VxiTPLA

Eastbound, the US-23 shields are above the control cities, making the signs so dissimilar in height that they're mounted unevenly on the gantries:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vdHQVKpHhnuMbP749
https://maps.app.goo.gl/STZPh7NdoCNr9TSK6

[Amaury]

This sign for Washington State Route 821 certainly seems unique. This is on the Interstate 82 westbound Exit 26 off-ramp: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xk2Fj5KKwUswdayb9

I'm using the 2007 capture with not as great quality because the other captures, including the latest for in 2019 for the off-ramp don't have it, but it was finally "recently" reinstalled in the field either in 2020 or 2021. (You can see it here from the freeway, it's just far away: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ycdLbQWycUqv98VF8) Anyway, just an SR 821 shield on a green background. No north directionality (since that's the southern terminus of the route, though I think technically the terminus is at the eastbound I-82 on and off ramps), no left arrow, no JCT, no TO. Just that.

Edit: It also seems like a redundant sign, given this one a little farther back: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HkTZdAuou1bKMAfs7

[vdeane]

The sign on I-87 south for the Village of Colonie has had a damaged V for years.  It got patched just a couple weeks ago and looked nice for two days before it was replaced with this.

[LilianaUwU]

The sign on I-87 south for the Village of Colonie has had a damaged V for years.  It got patched just a couple weeks ago and looked nice for two days before it was replaced with this.

Ah, so that's where the Illagers live.

[formulanone]

The sign on I-87 south for the Village of Colonie has had a damaged V for years.  It got patched just a couple weeks ago and looked nice for two days before it was replaced with this.

Ah, so that's where the Illagers live.

What about the Ilanders?

[Rothman]

The end of one avenue and the beginning of another...but which is which?  Squint to honor our veterans in Lyndhurst, NJ:

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/17onFnZZNCLf9BAR6
The shields on this guide at the north end of US 45E in South Fulton, TN have a lot to be desired for.

[Rothman]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/17onFnZZNCLf9BAR6
The shields on this guide at the north end of US 45E in South Fulton, TN have a lot to be desired for.

So, they're faded, or am I missing something?  There's a faded beyond all recognition thread.

[74/171FAN]

On I-64 WB approaching US 13 (and unsigned VA 166)  (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220040951694600&set=a.10220041282142861)

[formulanone]

Huge I-59 Detour sign; the northbound ramp from Alabama 117 was under construction, so the advice was to take US 11...



...since I couldn't pick up that section of US 11 a few years back, because one of its bridges was washed out; so now I am able to clinch it from New Orleans to Chattanooga.

[Amaury]

Not a sign, but still interesting, though I wonder if it's just something for them to use when they finally get around to reinstalling the milepost here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oFktCrWNSfDcHCah6 Although I don't know what 6400 stands for. The post was either crashed into or wood rot occurred and was last seen standing in an October 2019 capture: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9zyoUkDXjb5UAd8BA

This is on Interstate 82 westbound at milepost 88 in Washington.

Side note: The wrong color was used for the directionality banner.

[74/171FAN]

On I-264 WB in Norfolk approaching unsigned VA 405 (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220042510453568&set=a.10220042611176086)



And approaching I-464 (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220042519773801&set=a.10220042611176086)

[chrisg69911]

A TO would be useful here. This is NJ 3, which will soon split up into NJ 495 and US 1-9.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/wUCG8SwyrEs8xorX6
They did use TO here tho
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gkE3zMXJQ1YFLy9Z9

[74/171FAN]

On VA 168 SB north of US 460 in Norfolk (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220042605615947&set=a.10220042611176086)

[freebrickproductions]

Huge I-59 Detour sign; the northbound ramp from Alabama 117 was under construction, so the advice was to take US 11...



...since I couldn't pick up that section of US 11 a few years back, because one of its bridges was washed out; so now I am able to clinch it from New Orleans to Chattanooga.

Non-cutout too. Seems whatever contractor that is likes to use them.

[thenetwork]

On VA 168 SB north of US 460 in Norfolk (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220042605615947&set=a.10220042611176086)

So the main idea the city wants to convey is that the ROAD is COLD!!!

[Rothman]

On VA 168 SB north of US 460 in Norfolk (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220042605615947&set=a.10220042611176086)

So the main idea the city wants to convey is that the ROAD is COLD!!!

Don't forget its booties.

[roadfro]

Not a sign, but still interesting, though I wonder if it's just something for them to use when they finally get around to reinstalling the milepost here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oFktCrWNSfDcHCah6 Although I don't know what 6400 stands for. The post was either crashed into or wood rot occurred and was last seen standing in an October 2019 capture: https://maps.app.goo.gl/9zyoUkDXjb5UAd8BA

This is on Interstate 82 westbound at milepost 88 in Washington.

Side note: The wrong color was used for the directionality banner.

Most likely, 6400 is a engineer's station or control point reference, typically used in engineering drawings to denote the location of highway objects based on a reference line on plans.

Surveyors use the station to identify the location of all things on a roadway based on a reference line (sometimes, but not always the centerline of the overall highway or center of the carriageway for divided highways), such as the begin/end points of curves, locations of culverts, and signs. Typically there's a line reference and a decimal point—something like "L" 450+00 or "R1" 1425+36—and a reference to the distance left or right of the line, but some of that can be omitted if some of that information is implied by context.

[wanderer2575]

Talk of the former McDonald's off I-44 in Wellston, OK (in the Former McDonald's Stands thread) made me look at Google Maps to see what that area looks like now.  And I saw this:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/edP43LZDoPTjvCEz6

Okay, I've seen NO RE-ENTRY and PAY TOLL yellow banners on toll road exit signs, but I've never before seen NO REFUNDS.

[Sani]

I happened across this one in Tulsa the other day.

In 2011, this was a perfectly good sign gantry: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xgStboN6Uw5KZpZt5

Some construction in 2014 replaced the signs with temporary orange ones: https://maps.app.goo.gl/m2ujr4hqxgcxr5aAA

Once construction ended, we got... whatever the hell this is: https://maps.app.goo.gl/KjmrNNBDeAL4vv5Y8

I assume it was "Take Your Kid to Work Day" and someone let their seven-year-old play around in FlexiSign.

[LilianaUwU]

I happened across this one in Tulsa the other day.

In 2011, this was a perfectly good sign gantry: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xgStboN6Uw5KZpZt5

Some construction in 2014 replaced the signs with temporary orange ones: https://maps.app.goo.gl/m2ujr4hqxgcxr5aAA

Once construction ended, we got... whatever the hell this is: https://maps.app.goo.gl/KjmrNNBDeAL4vv5Y8

I assume it was "Take Your Kid to Work Day" and someone let their seven-year-old play around in FlexiSign.

This is par for the course for Oklahoma.