The actual Worst of Road Signs

[hotdogPi]

Is anyone familiar with the game Baba Is You? That's what the first sign reminds me of.

[Big John]

An example of standard exit tabs on a NYSDOT guide sign

The squished text on Niagara Scenic Pkwy.
Should say 1 1/4 MILES.

[StogieGuy7]

An example of standard exit tabs on a NYSDOT guide sign

The squished text on Niagara Scenic Pkwy.
Should say 1 1/4 MILES.

Yes, signage on freeways in NY State is usually much better than this. A rare miss.

[andrepoiy]

Yeah I always wondered about that Helvetica sign on I-190... How did it get there? Who made it? Why has it stayed there for so long?

[kphoger]

Let's see if this musters kphoger's approval:

Honestly, it looks like it belongs in an airport or some sort of park.

[wanderer2575]

An example of standard exit tabs on a NYSDOT guide sign

The squished text on Niagara Scenic Pkwy.
Should say 1 1/4 MILES.

Yes, signage on freeways in NY State is usually much better than this. A rare miss.

This at least can be explained:  Looks like a patch on an existing sign; either it had to be squished to fit or replace the entire sign (and maybe also the Canada sign next to it so the arrows would still point correctly).

[machias]

An example of standard exit tabs on a NYSDOT guide sign

The squished text on Niagara Scenic Pkwy.
Should say 1 1/4 MILES.

Yes, signage on freeways in NY State is usually much better than this. A rare miss.

This at least can be explained:  Looks like a patch on an existing sign; either it had to be squished to fit or replace the entire sign (and maybe also the Canada sign next to it so the arrows would still point correctly).

It is a patch over R Moses Pkwy.

[odditude]

Let's see if this musters kphoger's approval:



Fonts all around
The rounded corners on exit tabs
Is instead of Island? Beaver Is Pick
"Niagara Falls 5 miles" looks like a prop for a show or movie

looks like old DRPA signage

[LilianaUwU]

Let's see if this musters kphoger's approval:



Fonts all around
The rounded corners on exit tabs
Is instead of Island? Beaver Is Pick
"Niagara Falls 5 miles" looks like a prop for a show or movie

It's been there for a while too (25 years iirc). Who smoked what in the sign shop in the late 90s?

[Max Rockatansky]

TO CA 99 along westbound Herndon Avenue in northern Fresno:

99CAa by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

[Brandon]

Let's see if this musters kphoger's approval:

Honestly, it looks like it belongs in an airport or some sort of park.

It's apparently still there on Google Street View (dated 2022), and even made it into an episode of "The Grand Tour" during a race from NYC to Niagara Falls.

[Ricw24]

The Beaver Island Parkway exit is actually closed due to bridge replacement work, so hopefully when they are done this sign can be replaced.

[Takumi]

This is a fresh installation. It replaced a correct VA 144 shield that had faded beyond recognition.


If you look off to the right, you can see what it's "supposed"  to look like.

[plain]

This is a fresh installation. It replaced a correct VA 144 shield that had faded beyond recognition.


If you look off to the right, you can see what it's "supposed"  to look like.

I guess they wanted it to match its buddy down the street smdh

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gQUAvNrCFGAPSL86A

[LilianaUwU]

I know that temporary signs are often reused between projects, but sometimes they shouldn't... or else they end up like this:

Ugly sign, Boul. René-Lévesque WB - 1 by Liliana Vess, on Flickr

Ugly sign, Boul. René-Lévesque - 2 by Liliana Vess, on Flickr

[Rothman]

I understand that NCDOT was trying to be decorative, or artsy, or whatever because of the location, but I really don't like the way this sign looks.

Wonder it it's actually an NPS sign, rather than NCDOT.

[Big John]

^^ NPS signs are usually brown.

[LilianaUwU]

Perhaps it was indeed put up by the NPS, because it mentions the National Military Park that's up the road (otherwise, it wouldn't be signed).

[CometTheMountainLion]

Nominating another Tulsa travesty.

• 64 is squished in the US shield.
• The 6 in 64 is not straight.
• The spacing between the letters of EAST is inconsistent.
• "Broken Arrow"  is written in an Arial-like font and the words are misaligned.

[SectorZ]

Nominating another Tulsa travesty.

• 64 is squished in the US shield.
• The 6 in 64 is not straight.
• The spacing between the letters of EAST is inconsistent.
• "Broken Arrow"  is written in an Arial-like font and the words are misaligned.

And the arrow isn't centered.

(I guess that makes it broken as well)

[Big John]

^^ Broken Arrow is in Helvetica.

[Scott5114]

Also, the top two corners are rounded and the bottom two are squared off.

A true ODOT Special™.

[LilianaUwU]

Can we add ODOT Specials to the Actual Worst of Road Signs banlist? I feel like they're cheating at this point.

[Scott5114]

Can we add ODOT Specials to the Actual Worst of Road Signs banlist? I feel like they're cheating at this point.

Then what would I have to look forward to posting? Good signs? Kansas is far away...

[LilianaUwU]

Can we add ODOT Specials to the Actual Worst of Road Signs banlist? I feel like they're cheating at this point.

Then what would I have to look forward to posting? Good signs? Kansas is far away...

Horrible signs don't just exist in Oklahoma. Here's two "signs" in a parking lot in Québec:

Maximum 5 km/hrs (sic) - 1 by Liliana Vess, on Flickr

Maximum 5 km/hrs (sic) - 2 by Liliana Vess, on Flickr