Altered, Repurposed, Recycled, Reused

[Jim]

This "END" began life as "EXEMPT".  Murray, Utah.  November 13, 2016.

[Eth]

These signs in Lawrenceville, GA look like they may have had a previous life in Cumming. (3/26/2017)

[US 89]

County sign with a ghost of former (or possibly mistaken) usage:

I saw this sign today.

Wow, that would have been a 5 character sign (2254A, maybe?).

[Big John]

Wow, that would have been a 5 character sign (2254A, maybe?).

looks like 225-A

[jwolfer]

Wow, that would have been a 5 character sign (2254A, maybe?).

looks like 225-A

It is 225-A.. Bradford Cou ty doesnr have 4 digit CRs

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[mefailenglish]

Meant to post this a couple of months ago...Repurposed kodachrome US1 shield

[US71]

http://www.cosmos-monitor.com/mo/main/recycled-cutout-shield.html

Recycled MO State cut-out

[csw]

There are chopped-up signs used for parking delegation all over downtown New Orleans. Didn't get any photos but here is an GSV example.

Royal St https://goo.gl/maps/7bhySiAxndF2

[Max Rockatansky]

A have recycled Stop sign that was cut into a US 4 shield in my sign collection.  I'll post a copy of the picture from my sign galley when I get a chance, my phone app doesn't want to work.  I got the sign from New Hampshire where recycling signs into US Routes is apparently a common practice. 

[kphoger]

Cross-posting from the "worst of" thread.

Best worst US 101 shield ever along the Nacimiento-Fergusson Road in Big Sur:

IMG_0440 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Not only is it a shittily-made stencil, it's in friggin' Calibri, the default MS Office font.

It is actually a recycled sign from when the Nacimiento-Fergusson Road was the only access to Gorda down in Big Sur along CA 1. 

IMG_0442 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

I suspect that Los Padres National Forest just did what they could over at Nacimiento Station with a stencil.  Really though out to order a G14, US 101, and CA 1 shield at the junction to direct traffic the correct way.

[Hurricane Rex]

There was a do not pass sign turned into a Speed 30 sign in a construction zone, couldn't get a good picture.

[formulanone]

Is Birmingham the leader in re-using old signage?

[US 89]

^^That US 59 sign looks like they filled in the numbers and arrows with permanent marker.

[Jim]

It seems the Texas 255 connector from I-35 to the Colombia Solidarity International Bridge used to be a toll road, but is not anymore.  As of last November, the 4th to be exact, the signs from I-35 still use the toll-style markers but the word "toll" is taped over.   And you can still read "Toll" through the yellow tape on the BGS.

[jay8g]

This sign may look like it was vandalized, but I'm pretty sure the hand-written part was actually done as a correction -- WSDOT typically uses the P suffix for pedestrian bridges, and this is one. However, very strangely, WSDOT's bridge list doesn't show a bridge 99-582 at all, with or without the P suffix.

[ErmineNotyours]

I was just reading this thread for the first time, then went through old photos and found this:

Reused sign, 2009, W Fort St. & 32nd Ave W, Seattle by Arthur Allen, on Flickr

They have since replaced the top sign.  It's a dead end for cars, but a through route for bikes and pedestrians.  Google Street View.

[kphoger]

Cross-posting from another thread, because it also belongs here...

Cattle Xing near Ft Smith, AR

[kphoger]

It seems the Texas 255 connector from I-35 to the Colombia Solidarity International Bridge used to be a toll road, but is not anymore.  As of last November, the 4th to be exact, the signs from I-35 still use the toll-style markers but the word "toll" is taped over.   And you can still read "Toll" through the yellow tape on the BGS.

Tolls on TX-255 stopped being collected in May 2017 and were later prohibited by order of SB 312, effective 09/01/2017. 

Texas Rep. Richard Peña Raymond ... said the Texas Department of Transportation will take down the signs that say "Camino Colombia Toll Road" any day now.

[Buck87]

After a railroad bridge was removed north of Norwalk, Ohio, Huron County repurposed this distant low clearance sign...



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[US71]

I saw this in Kansas City a few years ago. It's apparently a contractor sign that has been overlayed several times.

[chays]

At local ballfields, an old sign was chopped up and used to help secure a new sign to the fence.

[stevashe]

This one way sign in Seattle used to be a rather large parking sign, it's now slated for replacement though so it won't be around much longer.

[JUHSD-rvalencia]

Daly City in my area especially John Daly Blvd, one of the signs in Univers Condensed text as supposed to the Caltrans "no right turn on red" one, reused a really old one by flipping it over. Absurd! 

[kphoger]

I noticed this while my family was walking back from the convenience store on Thursday.

Neighborhood Watch sign, repurposed as a Neighborhood Watch sign.

[ErmineNotyours]

Reused speed limit sign, Yakima.