The Worst of Road Signs

[Scott5114]

Probably just bad application of vinyl stickers. It's easy to bend them if you don't give a shit what you're doing.

[cjk374]

I found this 4-digit parish route sign done by LaDOTD the other day. Parish roads by interstate interchanges are the only ones that DOTD ever provides signage for. This is not a worst of, just a comparison.

Webster Parish 1107 @ US 371 & I-20 by Jess Kilgore, on Flickr

[1995hoo]

Vermont Avenue in DC. The reason I put this in "Worst of"  is because if you look closely, you'll see the same error on the other sign to the left.

[Brian556]

Does his CR 5201 shield in Cullman County, AL qualify?
CR 5201 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

Yeah, Cullman County lays a few eggs, considering they layout many thousands of county shields...they probably just run out of small numerals, and cut up some larger ones, even though they don't fit.

Did they heat these up before applying them?  it looks like most of the numbers have been melted first.

They are probably made from normal sheeting, not the old kind that requires heat. That went away long ago. It is not easy at all to apply letters/numbers individually. Now take into consideration that the workers that make these probably don't give near as much of a shit about signs as we do, and they are probably lazy, low skilled workers to begin with, this is the result.

[Android]

arr, well, sheeting and shitting, it all seems like crap to me. 

[Scott5114]

Vermont Avenue in DC. The reason I put this in "Worst of"  is because if you look closely, you'll see the same error on the other sign to the left.

Not only that, it's stretched-out Series B, just like ODOT likes to do. Bad find!

[TBKS1]

Somewhere in Pulaski County, Arkansas. (You can't find this on Google Street View)

Very ugly stop ahead sign

by TBKS1, on Flickr

This looks like it was made in MS paint or something similar.

[freebrickproductions]

Somewhere in Pulaski County, Arkansas. (You can't find this on Google Street View)

Very ugly stop ahead sign

by TBKS1, on Flickr

This looks like it was made in MS paint or something similar.

[ThatTenneseeRoadgeek]

oh MY!

[ThatTenneseeRoadgeek]

Tennessee has a pretty good approach to its primary route markers. They all incorporate the state outline with the state name at the bottom of the sign, and Tennessee is wider than it is tall. their solution is to sign all primary state routes (1-, 2- or 3-digit) in a wide sign, generally 24x30".

I'd put the state outline and name at the top of the sign, but the current design may be a throwback to the days when all state routes were signed with a triangle with "TENN" below the route number.

And for illustrative purposes about state outline designs, I present:

[Brandon]

Post the worst, most ineptly put together pieces of crap in your state. Not just "oh, it's in Clearview", "wrong type of shield", or "it's a bubble shield" or anything like that. We're talking pure, unadulterated suck here. Stuff that makes you wonder what they were thinking. Stuff that should only result from a night of binge drinking at the sign shop. Like this!

Been there, saw that, it's even worse in person.  Whomever from ODOT made that abomination took the letters from two entirely different bins and slapped them together.  It's almost as if it were a dare to make the worst road sign one could come up with.  Reminds me of a bad ransom note you see on TV or in the movies.

[JMoses24]

The right panel is another ODOT special. The more you look at it the worse it gets.

I think I saw that one in January coming back from a quick trip to Dallas. Yikes.

[US71]

Flippin, AR

[jakeroot]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2259/2283115720_f6dd49d17d_z_d.jpg?zz=1

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3219/2283115760_b8ff7dd921_z_d.jpg?zz=1

Flippin, AR

Flippin' A!

[thenetwork]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2259/2283115720_f6dd49d17d_z_d.jpg?zz=1

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3219/2283115760_b8ff7dd921_z_d.jpg?zz=1

Flippin, AR

Flippin' A!

If you don't own any stores in AR, then it's NONE of your Flippin Business!

[cjk374]

Flippin is a nice town. Been through there on the old route.

[TBKS1]

Hot Springs, AR

A strange Do Not Enter sign by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr



So yeah, I finally got this yesterday. lol

[cl94]

I-87 SB in Colonie, NY. Yeah, I think NYSDOT's Albany County residency is trying to compete with ODOT for crappy signs.

[Jim]

I-87 SB in Colonie, NY. Yeah, I think NYSDOT's Albany County residency is trying to compete with ODOT for crappy signs.

I drive by that almost daily and have been meaning to get a good picture for months.  Any time I've had my camera with me it seems it's been dark, rainy, snowy, backlit, my windshield's dirty, or the traffic's too heavy for me to feel comfortable trying to get a picture.  Glad it's finally been shamed appropriately in this thread.

[formulanone]

I-87 SB in Colonie, NY. Yeah, I think NYSDOT's Albany County residency is trying to compete with ODOT for crappy signs.

I drive by that almost daily and have been meaning to get a good picture for months.  Any time I've had my camera with me it seems it's been dark, rainy, snowy, backlit, my windshield's dirty, or the traffic's too heavy for me to feel comfortable trying to get a picture.  Glad it's finally been shamed appropriately in this thread.

I was going to assume that sign was an April Fool's joke courtesy of MS Paint.

I can see how the wrong font might wind up on a last-second patch job, but the combination of two different font families takes the cake.

[cl94]

I-87 SB in Colonie, NY. Yeah, I think NYSDOT's Albany County residency is trying to compete with ODOT for crappy signs.

I drive by that almost daily and have been meaning to get a good picture for months.  Any time I've had my camera with me it seems it's been dark, rainy, snowy, backlit, my windshield's dirty, or the traffic's too heavy for me to feel comfortable trying to get a picture.  Glad it's finally been shamed appropriately in this thread.

I was going to assume that sign was an April Fool's joke courtesy of MS Paint.

I can see how the wrong font might wind up on a last-second patch job, but the combination of two different font families takes the cake.

If it's an April Fool's joke, it went up about 5 months too early. And it's three font families. Not a patch job, either.

[vdeane]

At least the new exit 4 SB gore sign the residency installed, just a couple miles north of there, looks fine.

Given some of the recent signs in Saratoga County and the infamous ones in Region 9, I don't think this is limited to the Albany County Residency.  I expect residency signs will get more common since many Regions have stopped doing sign rehab projects to save money.

(personal opinion)

[adventurernumber1]

Flippin, AR

It looks like someone didn't flippin' care to make the route shields correctly.   

[Brandon]

I-87 SB in Colonie, NY. Yeah, I think NYSDOT's Albany County residency is trying to compete with ODOT for crappy signs.

What a fugly POS.  I thought New York was usually better than that.

[UCFKnights]

I-4 in Orlando as part of the Ultimate redo project. I hope its temporary lol