Erroneous road signs

[kphoger]

I can barely stand listening to more than one minuet.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

IIRC there is one forumer who writes 'minuet' instead of minute, like that sign.

[hotdogPi]

IIRC there is one forumer who writes 'minuet' instead of minute, like that sign.

roadman65

[US 81]

I kinda like the One Minuet Waltz, by Chop-in.....

[SD Mapman]

Contractor stupidity or new signage pattern for business routes?

What do you think?

Look, there's a standalone one too!

[JMoses24]

I think this has been posted here, but here's a double error. This is US 27/US 127. It's on Central Parkway just north of the point where that road turns from east-west to north-south.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

If we removed all the "right number, wrong shield blank" posts from this thread, how short would it be?  These signs correctly convey the number of the highway they point to.  To me, they're more correct than incorrect.

In this part of the world since all 'shields' are rectangles with different colors, it would be the wrong color. There are quite a few in my area (including a second-tier regional road (green) upgraded to a national one (red)).

However, I remember there was once at the start of a freeway a couple of 'new lane on the left' signs and then the lane appeared on the right. The freeway has since been extended, so the signs are gone.

[J N Winkler]

If we removed all the "right number, wrong shield blank" posts from this thread, how short would it be?  These signs correctly convey the number of the highway they point to.  To me, they're more correct than incorrect.

Signing construction plan sheets come with this exclusion already applied since, in the vast majority of states (Utah being one exception), route marker signs are not considered designable.  On a similar basis it is reasonable to exclude sizing errors (capital letters too high in relation to lowercase loop height) because these are mistakes of formatting rather than content.  Even after this, I still see a few plan sheets with spelling errors:  "Pratice" rather than "Practice," "Churchdownd" instead of "Churchdown," etc.  I think the infamous "Elimitante thru trtaffic" (?) has its origins in a plan sheet as well.

[peterj920]

Wrong lake.  Should be Lake Michigan.  Lake Superior isn't anywhere close to Manitowoc

[Rothman]

Wrong lake.  Should be Lake Michigan.  Lake Superior isn't anywhere close to Manitowoc

That's truly bizarre.

[paulthemapguy]

Wrong lake.  Should be Lake Michigan.  Lake Superior isn't anywhere close to Manitowoc

That's truly bizarre.

I was going to theorize that the signs came from a shop/yard where signs for both circle tours are commingled...but there aren't any WISDOT districts that include shorelines on both lakes...so maybe someone at the sign supplier messed up 

[Big John]

Worse yet is a sign buried somewhere in this thread showing a Lake Erie sign in Sheboygan WI. (This location but hard to read: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.71776,-87.760545,3a,75y,318.55h,79.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZM8nuNjNv9JOlu9PbNxYUw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

[jbnv]

Worse yet is a sign buried somewhere in this thread showing a Lake Erie sign in Sheboygan WI. (This location but hard to read: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.71776,-87.760545,3a,75y,318.55h,79.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZM8nuNjNv9JOlu9PbNxYUw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

I take it the sign in question isn't the one on the unisign with I-43. That one looks like LAKE MICHIGAN to me.

[peterj920]

Worse yet is a sign buried somewhere in this thread showing a Lake Erie sign in Sheboygan WI. (This location but hard to read: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.71776,-87.760545,3a,75y,318.55h,79.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZM8nuNjNv9JOlu9PbNxYUw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)

I take it the sign in question isn't the one on the unisign with I-43. That one looks like LAKE MICHIGAN to me.

It says Lake Michigan, but the graphic in the sign is of Lake Erie.  Lake Erie is no where near Wisconsin so it would be interesting to see how that graphic made it onto the sign.  Here's a closeup that someone posted on flickr. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew-turnbull/4429625013 

[tckma]

Saw a US-34 this weekend in Gettysburg; thought there might actually be a US-34, but then discovered about a block later they meant PA-34.  But I see these kinds of sign errors all the time.  In fact, just this morning I saw an MD-29 shield posted on US-29 (granted, it was on one of those "thanks for your patience during construction" signs, but still)...

[kphoger]

This intersection is 350 km away from Mexican federal highway 40.  Thinking the crossroad might be state route 40 instead, I checked the SCT website and the road is not listed as a state highway either.

[tckma]

Here ya go.  This sign should say To PA-34, not To US-34.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8299606,-77.2311001,3a,75y,353.02h,86.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2PKDjHtfrp7gDPDgmD6ipg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[tckma]

One of a seemingly interminable number of US-27 reassurance markers on NY-27 on Eastern Long Island:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8909295,-72.4888868,3a,75y,50.28h,91.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdoUTFf0zuESKQRg9Jdk7Xw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[freebrickproductions]

One of a seemingly interminable number of US-27 reassurance markers on NY-27 on Eastern Long Island:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8909295,-72.4888868,3a,75y,50.28h,91.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdoUTFf0zuESKQRg9Jdk7Xw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

For a state that has (had?) such a distaste for the US Route system, they sure do love to put up US Route shields.

[US71]

In the preview for the new movie "Founder" there's a US 17 in Arizona

[paulthemapguy]

Here ya go.  This sign should say To PA-34, not To US-34.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8299606,-77.2311001,3a,75y,353.02h,86.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2PKDjHtfrp7gDPDgmD6ipg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Oh my god.
As a guy who grew up in Oswego, IL (home of the ACTUAL junction of US30-34), I find this sign assembly AMAZING. 
https://goo.gl/maps/hNLoCawiJb42

[amroad17]

Here ya go.  This sign should say To PA-34, not To US-34.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8299606,-77.2311001,3a,75y,353.02h,86.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2PKDjHtfrp7gDPDgmD6ipg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Only 689 miles to go!

[amroad17]

One of a seemingly interminable number of US-27 reassurance markers on NY-27 on Eastern Long Island:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8909295,-72.4888868,3a,75y,50.28h,91.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdoUTFf0zuESKQRg9Jdk7Xw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Could Cincinnati borrow a few of those?

[briantroutman]

I noticed this "US 15"  shield around the corner from the hotel where I stayed last night in Norwalk, CT. The shield obviously refers to CT 15 (The Merritt Parkway). What surprised me was the fact it has lasted so long–I would guess it to be a survivor from the '70s.

[shadyjay]

And up in Meriden, CT, on US 5 just north of I-691, you have another US 15...

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5441353,-72.7848341,3a,41.1y,46.78h,75.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sz-6LfPscWDAd-zGBiTnywA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


And then there's these, on CT 68 East a few miles south in Wallingford, CT:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.485644,-72.8089413,3a,21.5y,121.44h,80.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sm7b_jChfYt6hgjiwdxay8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The CT 5 shield should be US 5.  And the same occurs in the other direction (CT 68 West), where there used to be a CT 5 and US 15 shield, before the US 15 shield was corrected with a CT 15 shield.