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

[vdeane]

Not "state speed limit 55".  Not "end 30 mph limit". "End speed limit 30", complete with an end banner for route shields.

[plain]

Not "state speed limit 55".  Not "end 30 mph limit". "End speed limit 30", complete with an end banner for route shields.

Virginia does a similar thing on many of its Secondary Routes, but all on one sign, and it says MILE SPEED.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rHhw2L6jKm6BfXTh6

[D-Dey65]

I suppose signs and signposts like this are more common in the Northern Rockies:
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8273584,-111.2432992,3a,15y,179.11h,93.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stjA6xCgaTaC_sZrXsGQlpg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu

But anyway, all I was really looking for was the location of this sign;

It would be helpful in order to give the image a better name.

[D-Dey65]

Unrelated to the above, but the "New Towns Every Hour" Twitter account recently posted this tweet showcasing Chunky, MS.
https://twitter.com/TownsUsa/status/1723199867793608754
What my eye was immediately drawn to was this exit sign for the town, which I feel sucks:

Not much better eastbound on I-20, in 2018:

It would almost be funnier if that tanker truck in front of you was hauling some chunky liquid.

[roadman65]

Not "state speed limit 55".  Not "end 30 mph limit". "End speed limit 30", complete with an end banner for route shields.

PA on US 1 in Chester County, PA also signs an END Speed Limit 45 sign rather than post the speed limit is 55 mph. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/53325321104
This is interesting. On another note, all signs but the pull through have EXIT ONLY arrows on US 71 at the Alphabet Loop interchange.

[DSS5]

I was looking through posts from when I was last active on this forum years upon years ago, and apparently at the time this sign (which hadn't been put up yet, I'd posted an article that a rendering of it) was controversial for unclear wording.

NC-194 in Vilas, NC

[kirbykart]

Not "state speed limit 55".  Not "end 30 mph limit". "End speed limit 30", complete with an end banner for route shields.

Virginia does a similar thing on many of its Secondary Routes, but all on one sign, and it says MILE SPEED.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rHhw2L6jKm6BfXTh6

New York has one of those too, in Cherry Creek.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/xfFiTq2EibaDLnLu9

[CovalenceSTU]

Not "state speed limit 55".  Not "end 30 mph limit". "End speed limit 30", complete with an end banner for route shields.

Virginia does a similar thing on many of its Secondary Routes, but all on one sign, and it says MILE SPEED.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rHhw2L6jKm6BfXTh6

New York has one of those too, in Cherry Creek.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/xfFiTq2EibaDLnLu9

It's an old standard that went away with the 1971 MUTCD, Oregon used to have a bunch but the only survivor I know of isn't on GSV:


Recently they've been using "END SPEED ZONE", here's one that replaced an "END 30 M.P.H. SPEED ZONE" (plus another with wide spacing):

[DRMan]

I was looking through posts from when I was last active on this forum years upon years ago, and apparently at the time this sign (which hadn't been put up yet, I'd posted an article that a rendering of it) was controversial for unclear wording.

NC-194 in Vilas, NC

The message is OK but it's basically a run-on sentence. They could make the sign wider and make the bottom part two lines instead of three.

THRU TRACTOR-TRAILERS PROHIBITED
TURN AROUND AND FOLLOW TRUCK ROUTE

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hEm5uJZEKajRHoPZ7
The guide signs at Exit 2 of the Atlantic City Expressway in New Jersey.

[Rothman]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hEm5uJZEKajRHoPZ7
The guide signs at Exit 2 of the Atlantic City Expressway in New Jersey.

I'm going to $1 Million Grand Prize.

[Big John]

Allowing advertising on freeway right-of-way?

[D-Dey65]

That said, you could make a case for L as in Lake George, but I don't believe that was the original intention.

Case in point, the argument I always had not only for reviving NY 27A east of the Oakdale Merge, but upgrading Suffolk CR 36 into NY 27B for Bellport, and upgrading Suffolk CR 98 into NY 27C, for Center Moriches.

[JoePCool14]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hEm5uJZEKajRHoPZ7
The guide signs at Exit 2 of the Atlantic City Expressway in New Jersey.

There is a surprisingly large amount of garbage going on here.

[D-Dey65]

Just in case anybody is still interested, I used SignMaker to create new versions of signs along I-10 in Florida at Exits 217 and 233 with control cities. If anyone wants me to post them, let me know.

[ClassicHasClass]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/hEm5uJZEKajRHoPZ7
The guide signs at Exit 2 of the Atlantic City Expressway in New Jersey.

I'm going to $1 Million Grand Prize.

That's my kind of control city.

[Rothman]

Just in case anybody is still interested, I used SignMaker to create new versions of signs along I-10 in Florida at Exits 217 and 233 with control cities. If anyone wants me to post them, let me know.

Weird thread to post this in.

[JoePCool14]

Just in case anybody is still interested, I used SignMaker to create new versions of signs along I-10 in Florida at Exits 217 and 233 with control cities. If anyone wants me to post them, let me know.

Post them in Redesign this! in Road-related Illustrations.

[74/171FAN]

On St. Charles Pkwy in Waldorf, MD.  (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10219659491998346&set=a.10219659690883318)



Farther south on the same road in White Plains, MD.  (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10219659494158400&set=a.10219659690883318)





On I-64 EB/I-95 SB in Richmond (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10219659597760990&set=a.10219659690883318)



(https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10219659671802841&set=a.10219659690883318)


Providence Rd west of US 460 in Suffolk, VA (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10219660505663687&set=a.10219660683028121)

[Dirt Roads]

(https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10219659671802841&set=a.10219659690883318)

Ooh!  This is a carryover from the old Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike.  I-64/I-95 eastbound comes down a fairly steep grade around the back side of downtown where it hit the "last mainline tollbooth" at the Belvidere Street exit on the RPT (when you are going this direction, it was actually the first tollbooth heading southbound on the RPT).  There were several signs in approach to this RPT tollbooth for truckers to check their brakes, as well as this no-so-perfectly placed Emergency Pulloff.

[74/171FAN]

Ooh!  This is a carryover from the old Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike.  I-64/I-95 eastbound comes down a fairly steep grade around the back side of downtown where it hit the "last mainline tollbooth" at the Belvidere Street exit on the RPT (when you are going this direction, it was actually the first tollbooth heading southbound on the RPT).  There were several signs in approach to this RPT tollbooth for truckers to check their brakes, as well as this no-so-perfectly placed Emergency Pulloff.

I posted it specifically because the sign is green, but yes you are correct.

[steviep24]

When your stop sign is faded so you mount a smaller one under it

This is at a Lowes in Webster, NY

[74/171FAN]

On US 64 WB approaching NC 32 in Plymouth.  (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10219660544904668&set=a.10219660683028121)



On US 64 WB between Jamesville and Williamston  (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/edit/a.10219660683028121)

[Amaury]

Odd spacing between the numbers in this exit gore point for Exit 25 in both directions on Interstate 90 in Washington:

Westbound: https://maps.app.goo.gl/EPa8mUbTG942e8Rx5
Eastbound: https://maps.app.goo.gl/WLQ8pVFVeCP31b5A8

Additionally, at the same location, for the westbound entrance ramp, there used to be an exit ramp off of that entrance ramp that just looped back to Snoqualmie Parkway, which is weird, because you would have just gotten there by just taking Exit 25, so I don't know why they had that: https://maps.app.goo.gl/NvVAQ52fjhanFtH48

It's still there, but is not officially used, with the guide sign and everything taken down: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mqCs4Y89G3Sr9cFP7 And in 2022, it was barricaded: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gRPJzzgmzefuXYzN7

Here it is on the Snoqualmie Parkway end when it was active: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bwEgYsasTV2CCK3R9 And currently: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Gg8XLLvk1v8tYpH96 It also used to be barricaded, as seen by the 2021 and 2022 captures: https://maps.app.goo.gl/KAZFvhAEicYM9TFb7

This is like this on Exit 22 as well, also in Washington: https://maps.app.goo.gl/s8sk3CfDZ1yUd6jn6

On this one, however, it's only on the westbound side, unlike Exit 25. Eastbound is normal: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Z9ryzCT1keDzRayq9

[Amaury]

A cone protecting an exit gore point sign on I-90 westbound in Washington: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GYUvucDZkJBa2WbA9

There are a couple others like this, just can't remember which ones off the top of my head.

I know that mileposts and exit numbers are independent of each other, at least here in the US, or at least here in Washington, and an Exit 3, for example, isn't based on milepost 3. Although I did read something that said exits are based on the nearest milepost, which I know sounds contradictory, but I'm not too sure.

In any case, I still find this interesting.

When exits and mile markers don't match, I-90 westbound Exit 85 in Washington: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kFKsGz9dc9pfi8bs7
When exits and mile markers match, I-90 eastbound Exit 20 in Washington: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zHfvxAxrXssgERd27

There's at least one other example of those matching, but I can't remember which one.