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

Started by mass_citizen, December 04, 2013, 10:46:35 PM

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TheGrassGuy

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ClassicHasClass

Looks like a 3du blank that they additionally used the wrong font size on.

roadman65

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6820352,-74.2142312,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjUdt0AM4vme0-WPMNJBSvw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Even though this sign on N. Broad Street in Elizabeth is been replaced several times, the post its attached to has not.  This is what many NJDOT sign assemblies once were like. 

Even the Goethals Bridge sign is still the same despite the green sign above it changed out.  I guess that is a PANYNJ sign and NJDOT will not touch it or even add it to their part of the sign.
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roadman65

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49426802348/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49424475583/in/dateposted-public/

Two sign assemblies along I-20 near Kilgore, TX.  Both for the same exit but laid out differently.  One gets the same info in less area, yet both chosen to do the same job.
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wanderer2575

Quote from: roadman65 on January 26, 2020, 09:59:47 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49426802348/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49424475583/in/dateposted-public/

Two sign assemblies along I-20 near Kilgore, TX.  Both for the same exit but laid out differently.  One gets the same info in less area, yet both chosen to do the same job.

Except that the control cities change from one sign to the next.  "Henderson" on the first sign becomes "Longview" on the second.  If one of these is an older sign that has been replaced by the other, fine.  But it's potentially very confusing when control destinations aren't the same for the entire series of signs for an exit.

-- US 175 --

Quote from: wanderer2575 on January 26, 2020, 10:28:35 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 26, 2020, 09:59:47 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49426802348/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49424475583/in/dateposted-public/

Two sign assemblies along I-20 near Kilgore, TX.  Both for the same exit but laid out differently.  One gets the same info in less area, yet both chosen to do the same job.

Except that the control cities change from one sign to the next.  "Henderson" on the first sign becomes "Longview" on the second.  If one of these is an older sign that has been replaced by the other, fine.  But it's potentially very confusing when control destinations aren't the same for the entire series of signs for an exit.

I think I heard/read this right a while back, that the US 259 south-TX 31 interchange is supposed to get redone to get rid of the left exits from I-20.

Also, IINM, backback in the day (maybe before the US 259 re-routing to along.I-20), the I-20 BGSes in both directions were much more complicated than they are now.

-- US 175 --

OK kids, you'll probably need your eye bleach for this one...


This is at the exit from a DART transit center-light rail station in Plano, TX.  More than a bit strange, as the Stop sign looking at the right-side corner is a regular we've-all-seen-it MUTCD kind, correct font and all.  I don't know why 1 Stop sign across all of DART's facilities is like the above, while the rest I've seen are the usual.  I don't even know where you'd get such a whacked-looking Stop sign from.  Anyway, hope your eyes recover...  :D :wow:

ipeters61

Quote from: -- US 175 -- on January 26, 2020, 02:44:47 PM
OK kids, you'll probably need your eye bleach for this one...

(photo snipped)
This is at the exit from a DART transit center-light rail station in Plano, TX.  More than a bit strange, as the Stop sign looking at the right-side corner is a regular we've-all-seen-it MUTCD kind, correct font and all.  I don't know why 1 Stop sign across all of DART's facilities is like the above, while the rest I've seen are the usual.  I don't even know where you'd get such a whacked-looking Stop sign from.  Anyway, hope your eyes recover...  :D :wow:
I guess the sign really wants you to STOP.
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roadman65

Quote from: wanderer2575 on January 26, 2020, 10:28:35 AM
Quote from: roadman65 on January 26, 2020, 09:59:47 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49426802348/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49424475583/in/dateposted-public/

Two sign assemblies along I-20 near Kilgore, TX.  Both for the same exit but laid out differently.  One gets the same info in less area, yet both chosen to do the same job.

Except that the control cities change from one sign to the next.  "Henderson" on the first sign becomes "Longview" on the second.  If one of these is an older sign that has been replaced by the other, fine.  But it's potentially very confusing when control destinations aren't the same for the entire series of signs for an exit.

Pretty common in signing practices.  Georgia would have it along I-75 & I-85 at their split where one used to read Columbus for I-85 south while another read Montgomery.    NJ Turnpike used to do that a lot where the 1 mile and 2 mile guides were much different.  I-95 in Fort Pierce, FL is another annoying one as the advanced guides show it in urban format with SR 70 as Okeechobee Road and the diverge uses control cites of Fort Pierce and Okeechobee for the state road.

Not exactly for the same interchange, but SR 570 in Polk County, FL has inconsistencies among signing all the Lakeland exits.  US 98 (Exit 10) is signed for Bartow- Lakeland yet nearby Exit 7 for State Road 37 is signed by street name "S. Florida Ave." when it is also a suburban arterial like US 98 nearby serving the area's local concerns.  Either sign SR 37 with Lakeland and Mulberry or sign US 98 as Bartow Road!  US 92 in Auburndale is another and is signed for Lakeland- Auburndale, but its far out and not near the other two in Lakeland proper.   However, the Exit 17 guides on SR 570 are like those of US 27 from I-75 in Broward where Hialeah is used as SB US 27 control point as I-75 just came from there if you are heading NB on the freeway or going SB its really premature to mention it despite the city of Hialeah is the first city SB on US 27.   
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1995hoo

A comment vdeane made in another thread about stop signs prompted me to look at Street View of New Brunswick Route 95 approaching the US border, and when I did so, I found the following wonderful sign about carrying weed across the border:

https://goo.gl/maps/AJ5iNpbrJNhxPTpF7
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TheGrassGuy

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Rothman

Quote from: TheGrassGuy on February 11, 2020, 09:00:59 AM

Umm, what route am I on?
Well, you are on US 54/70, but the missing number is 82.

More interesting is making the R in Ruidoso so special.

And...not sure this sign qualifies for this thread.
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PHLBOS

Quote from: kphoger on February 11, 2020, 03:22:58 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on February 11, 2020, 03:18:04 PM
When there's a shortage of Ns

but backwards ones are in flush supply?
If one looks closely; it's actually a cut-off W.  It's tough to get a GSV of the above-SECANE RD. sign; but such has a similar cut-off W for the N.

IMHO, whoever fabricated this sign could've at least cut the Ws at the opposite ends if Ns weren't available.  These particular signs have been there since at least 2012 based on older GSVs.
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ozarkman417

Quote from: TheGrassGuy on February 11, 2020, 09:00:59 AM
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Umm, what route am I on?
GSV tends to blur the numbers in the route shields sometimes, and I thought that was the case at first.
The oldest of the three images available (2013) shows the correct route number, but the other ones do as well. The image shown isn't at the best angle, but "82" is shown in white text, if you look closely enough.

J N Winkler

Quote from: 1995hoo on February 06, 2020, 11:37:26 AMA comment vdeane made in another thread about stop signs prompted me to look at Street View of New Brunswick Route 95 approaching the US border, and when I did so, I found the following wonderful sign about carrying weed across the border:

https://goo.gl/maps/AJ5iNpbrJNhxPTpF7

In Québec, the MTQ has added a similar design (including crossed-out cannabis leaf silhouette) to its standard sign catalog (code P-335), only with the text legend simplified to "Frontière/Border Crossings."  It is available in heights of 1.8 m and 2.4 m.
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ErmineNotyours

Quote from: J N Winkler on February 17, 2020, 11:28:14 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 06, 2020, 11:37:26 AMA comment vdeane made in another thread about stop signs prompted me to look at Street View of New Brunswick Route 95 approaching the US border, and when I did so, I found the following wonderful sign about carrying weed across the border:

https://goo.gl/maps/AJ5iNpbrJNhxPTpF7

In Québec, the MTQ has added a similar design (including crossed-out cannabis leaf silhouette) to its standard sign catalog (code P-335), only with the text legend simplified to "Frontière/Border Crossings."  It is available in heights of 1.8 m and 2.4 m.

Also seen in BC.

1995hoo

Quote from: J N Winkler on February 17, 2020, 11:28:14 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 06, 2020, 11:37:26 AMA comment vdeane made in another thread about stop signs prompted me to look at Street View of New Brunswick Route 95 approaching the US border, and when I did so, I found the following wonderful sign about carrying weed across the border:

https://goo.gl/maps/AJ5iNpbrJNhxPTpF7

In Québec, the MTQ has added a similar design (including crossed-out cannabis leaf silhouette) to its standard sign catalog (code P-335), only with the text legend simplified to "Frontière/Border Crossings."  It is available in heights of 1.8 m and 2.4 m.

I see one near Derby Line: https://goo.gl/maps/CuinKC2vsisEYDJK7
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.

"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"
—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.

roadman65

Every day is a winding road, you just got to get used to it.

Sheryl Crowe

silveradoman298

Here's an odd one from Detroit. Not sure by the meaning of "Second Two-Way"...

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Eth

Quote from: silveradoman298 on February 18, 2020, 06:27:30 PM
Here's an odd one from Detroit. Not sure by the meaning of "Second Two-Way"...

I think "Second" is being used as a street name here, and the sign is telling you that Second (Street? Avenue?) is a two-way street here.

Pete from Boston

I really wish I was on some kind of forum for OCD designers, who lose their lunch over things like this, but it fits just fine here too.


stevashe

Quote from: Pete from Boston on February 19, 2020, 05:10:43 PM
I really wish I was on some kind of forum for OCD designers, who lose their lunch over things like this, but it fits just fine here too.

I am a bit OCD when it comes to sign designs, though I'm usually not one to "lose my lunch" as you say. However your picture does dis please me greatly as there are at least 5 major things wrong displayed within it, which is pretty ridiculous!



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