US/State mixup shield error signs

[cockroachking]

This assembly in Ossining sums up NYSDOT Region 8 pretty well.

As does this one in Croton.

[formulanone]

US 77 received a downgrade at NE 35:

[hbelkins]

Don't always assume that state DOTs are incompetent when it comes to making errors by posting US routes as state routes. Sometimes they need to replace a missing sign but they don't have the needed sign blank, so they compromise by posting a state route sign with the correct route marker.

This was the case along US 641 in western Kentucky recently.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/trafficsignals/posts/10158697042717344/

[formulanone]

Don't always assume that state DOTs are incompetent when it comes to making errors by posting US routes as state routes.

Unless it's a rare case of two different route types with the same number, or the wrong direction/number, it's really not a big deal and I delight in finding them. After all, it's better to have a sign in place than none at all.

But I think that Fredonia example has been there since at least May of 2020...

[highwaytuna]

US 9 and US 30 got a bit lost and ended up in MA:
(Photos from the Natick Report)





Maybe the contractors could've, I dunno, looked up a bit while they were painting the shields.
But here's the kicker: the shields used to be correct before being removed and repainted sometime between Nov 2019 and June 2022. I know a lot could've happened in that timeframe but they were fairly new, first appearing on GSV in Nov 2017.

[kirbykart]

US 62 got downgraded in Gowanda, NY
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MgsCm5GE7yaHW1zp6

[Albert]

Anyway, signs get wrong, even HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... (x Infinity) So, ODOT put a US 42 sign in Oregon on OR 42. US 42 was supposed to run from Kentucky to Ohio. ODOT also pot an error OR-101 sign on US 101 at Johnson when the improvements were complete.

[jtespi]

I found this on GSV, NM-146 got a promotion for a construction detour sign last year to US-146. At least the sign was just a temporary detour one.

Texas Loop 375 in El Paso got upgraded to US-375 according to some pavement shield markers north of the "Spaghetti Bowl" interchange.
I can't believe the contractors who installed the pavement markings made this major mistake. The US highway shield is a lot more complex to cut out compared to the rectangular Texas route marker shield.
At least they installed the correct one on another ramp in the interchange.

[roadman65]

https://goo.gl/maps/eYUwVtiQmoA43pUKA
NJ 1 & 9 in Jersey City.

[paulthemapguy]

US44 got downgraded in Poughkeepsie:

https://goo.gl/maps/B45jdS9wELz54m4n6

[kirbykart]

US 421 got a downgrade in Moral Township, Indiana.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gybUUavd6q5oeASz9

[ethanhopkin14]

I just saw this one this weekend.  SH-87 got upgraded, but a bit more confusing, unlike some of these errors where the US highway depicted belongs on the opposite side of the country, US-87 actually exists in Texas. 

[MATraveler128]

Saw this on my most recent trip where US 13 in Olney, VA was downgraded to VA 13.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6977414,-75.7170916,3a,75y,77.57h,74.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD1OI0T4EdzfVvpP3VWRDrA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[formulanone]

US 1 gets the Connecticut treatment in Westerly, Rhode Island. Maybe it was a compromise for being near the state line?

[74/171FAN]

Some Philly US/PA mix-ups on the street-blades: (from April 2022)

PA 611:  https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10217477892979734&set=a.10216218268569911
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10217477893699752&set=a.10216218268569911

PA 73: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10217477893299742&set=a.10216218268569911

Also the design plans for a future project along PA 29 show an error US 476 shield on the Location Map on Page 1.

[plain]

Petersburg isn't the only one trying to upgrade VA 36. Apparently Hopewell wants to try its hand, and raised them a US 10!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bqgNUCpVbDDu4HuU8


EDIT: Might as well throw in a US 156 while they're at it

https://maps.app.goo.gl/2bFWwiUN8B1FQT7SA

[tsmatt13]

From the other thread:

https://flic.kr/p/2nHXwxh
Near WTC in Manhattan: Someone made an oopsies on a detour sign and used a "US-9A" shield instead of a NY-9A one.

[74/171FAN]

From Mileage Mike:

US 50 becomes VA 50 at I-66 now apparently.

[Alex]

U.S. 31 downgraded in Montgomery, Alabama:



U.S. 31 downgraded again to Alabama State Route 31 southbound at Pintlala Park:

[cockroachking]

Found this gem in Hershey, PA on Wednesday:

The correct PA-743 shield is in the background.

[74/171FAN]

Those US 743 shields have been there since at least 2016.

[kirbykart]

I couldn't find this one on GSV, but in Salamanca, NY on I-86, at the western end of the US 219 concurrency heading east, there is an erroneous NY 219 shield.

[Alex]

I couldn't find this one on GSV, but in Salamanca, NY on I-86, at the western end of the US 219 concurrency heading east, there is an erroneous NY 219 shield.

Drove Interstate 86 across the Southern Tier last year and shot a pic of it:

[kirbykart]

I couldn't find this one on GSV, but in Salamanca, NY on I-86, at the western end of the US 219 concurrency heading east, there is an erroneous NY 219 shield.

Drove Interstate 86 across the Southern Tier last year and shot a pic of it:

Hey, thanks. That's an awesome picture.

[74/171FAN]

Found this gem in Hershey, PA on Wednesday:

The correct PA-743 shield is in the background.

Found this gem in Hershey, PA on Wednesday:

The correct PA-743 shield is in the background.

I found my photo here from 2016:  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10217586661778886&set=pcb.10217586662658908