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

[kkt]

Connecticut has had one with stop signs on each side, and signs noting that 3 vehicles at a time could go through in a cluster. Don't know if they still use it, as I saw it about a decade ago on US 44 somewhere between Hartford and I-395. It seemed like a recipe for disaster in that it expected way too much faith in the driving public to not screw it up.

Yes, judging by their behavior at 4-way stop signs, counting to 3 is way beyond the capability of most drivers.

[Truvelo]

What's all this about? The 56/412 shield doesn't look right.

[US 89]

What's all this about? The 56/412 shield doesn't look right.

New Mexico is well known for nonstandard and poor signage. On usends's web site usends.com, he has several pictures of these awful signs. Here are a couple more from his site:




(from usends.com)

[roadman65]

What's all this about? The 56/412 shield doesn't look right.

New Mexico is well known for nonstandard and poor signage. On usends's web site usends.com, he has several pictures of these awful signs. Here are a couple more from his site:




(from usends.com)

New Mexico's way of signing like NJ and their 1-9 or 1 & 9. 

Orlando has one for US 17 & 92 in the Simon Mall property of the Florida Mall.  Also Atlantic County has (or had one) inside the Egg Harbor Circle near ACY in NJ for US 40 and 322.

[roadman65]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/37265972874/in/dateposted-public/
Here is one that is odd.  The TO shield for US 41 South on the right.  Not only is it not going TO, but look at the assembly to the left.

Both signs installed as part of the same project, most likely by the same contractor too.

[Roadgeekteen]

What's all this about? The 56/412 shield doesn't look right.

New Mexico is well known for nonstandard and poor signage. On usends's web site usends.com, he has several pictures of these awful signs. Here are a couple more from his site:




(from usends.com)

Well, the 62 180 285 sign is efficient. 

[J N Winkler]

What's all this about? The 56/412 shield doesn't look right.

What it is all about is weird and wonderful New Mexico signing.  There should be (or at any rate used to be) at least one US route shield with all three designations (56, 64, 412) stacked on top of each other.

This creativity originates from the NMDOT sign shop since very little small signing is contracted.

[Truvelo]

It's not just the stacking but also the numbers in the top shield are rather small. With numbers that small there would be space for all three routes to appear in one shield.

[Roadgeekteen]

What's all this about? The 56/412 shield doesn't look right.

New Mexico is well known for nonstandard and poor signage. On usends's web site usends.com, he has several pictures of these awful signs. Here are a couple more from his site:




(from usends.com)

New Mexico's way of signing like NJ and their 1-9 or 1 & 9. 

Orlando has one for US 17 & 92 in the Simon Mall property of the Florida Mall.  Also Atlantic County has (or had one) inside the Egg Harbor Circle near ACY in NJ for US 40 and 322.

Wait, why does it look like 285 gets priority?

[KEVIN_224]

To update the Connecticut JCT 9/372 I posted a while back...Yes, a shop sticker on the sign's back side was punched as October 1990 in the lower left corner.



This sign is a few hundred feet south, at the corner of Worthington Ridge (unsigned CT Route 572) in Berlin, CT.


(The BGS that's way in the back reads CT 9 SOUTH - MIDDLETOWN - 1/2 MILE.)

[Roadgeekteen]

To update the Connecticut JCT 9/372 I posted a while back...Yes, a shop sticker on the sign's back side was punched as October 1990 in the lower left corner.



This sign is a few hundred feet south, at the corner of Worthington Ridge (unsigned CT Route 572) in Berlin, CT.


(The BGS that's way in the back reads CT 9 SOUTH - MIDDLETOWN - 1/2 MILE.)

What is weird about that second sign?

[KEVIN_224]

Nothing weird about it...just wondered if it was posted at the same time as the first one? I didn't think to check the back of that sign. I was just amazed the sticker wasn't 100% faded on the back of the JCT 9/372 sign, as it faces south.

[jakeroot]

What is weird about that second sign?

This thread is all-encompassing. Unless there's an error with the design or information, and assuming some part of the sign is unique (or "weird"), it goes here. Good, bad, and ugly. Everything.

There's another thread for best-of, as well as worst-of, but those threads are only for the extremes. Everything else that might be somewhere else on the best-to-worst spectrum should go here.

[Right on Red]

Apparently from Nebraska. Probably a joke or marketing campaign. Though the font makes me think whoever designed this thing clearly knew what they were doing.

[formulanone]

Apparently from Nebraska. Probably a joke or marketing campaign. Though the font makes me think whoever designed this thing clearly knew what they were doing.

Looks like something by Signs From the Near Future.

[RobbieL2415]

Nothing weird about it...just wondered if it was posted at the same time as the first one? I didn't think to check the back of that sign. I was just amazed the sticker wasn't 100% faded on the back of the JCT 9/372 sign, as it faces south.

The first one dates to the extension of CT 9 to CT 72, completed in and around 1990-1993.  New Britain is a haven for old signs.  So is Middletown.

[hbelkins]

[JJBers]

There's no real problem, but the exit tab has been replaced by "DOWNTOWN"

CT 2 by JJBers, on Flickr

[Roadgeekteen]

There's no real problem, but the exit tab has been replaced by "DOWNTOWN"

CT 2 by JJBers, on Flickr

What does the downtown word mean?

[jakeroot]

There's no real problem, but the exit tab has been replaced by "DOWNTOWN"

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4545/38348456901_907ae9683f_z.jpg

What does the downtown word mean?

I think it's safe to assume that it means "Downtown -- use Governor St".

[jakeroot]

https://goo.gl/vSar1Z -- all three left turns at this intersection have this same sign. I have driven through this intersection to visit the nearby A&W more times than I can count. I never noticed the sign before. Vancouver doesn't post many supplementary signs about what to do at left turn yield situations, but when they do, it's usually the same sign as the one in the US ("LEFT TURN YIELD ON GREEN").

[GenExpwy]

https://goo.gl/vSar1Z -- all three left turns at this intersection have this same sign. I have driven through this intersection to visit the nearby A&W more times than I can count. I never noticed the sign before. Vancouver doesn't post many supplementary signs about what to do at left turn yield situations, but when they do, it's usually the same sign as the one in the US ("LEFT TURN YIELD ON GREEN").

Couldn't someone interpret that as yield (then go), even when the signal is red?   

[kkt]

https://goo.gl/vSar1Z -- all three left turns at this intersection have this same sign. I have driven through this intersection to visit the nearby A&W more times than I can count. I never noticed the sign before. Vancouver doesn't post many supplementary signs about what to do at left turn yield situations, but when they do, it's usually the same sign as the one in the US ("LEFT TURN YIELD ON GREEN").

Couldn't someone interpret that as yield (then go), even when the signal is red?   

Try that out on the judge and let us know how it goes.

[freebrickproductions]

https://goo.gl/vSar1Z -- all three left turns at this intersection have this same sign. I have driven through this intersection to visit the nearby A&W more times than I can count. I never noticed the sign before. Vancouver doesn't post many supplementary signs about what to do at left turn yield situations, but when they do, it's usually the same sign as the one in the US ("LEFT TURN YIELD ON GREEN").

Couldn’t someone interpret that as yield (then go), even when the signal is red?   

Try that out on the judge and let us know how it goes.

Well, if you have a good enough lawyer...

[jakeroot]

https://goo.gl/vSar1Z -- all three left turns at this intersection have this same sign. I have driven through this intersection to visit the nearby A&W more times than I can count. I never noticed the sign before. Vancouver doesn't post many supplementary signs about what to do at left turn yield situations, but when they do, it's usually the same sign as the one in the US ("LEFT TURN YIELD ON GREEN").

Couldn't someone interpret that as yield (then go), even when the signal is red?   

Try that out on the judge and let us know how it goes.

Well, if you have a good enough lawyer...

Not any more ambiguous than "LEFT TURN MUST YIELD".