Erroneous road signs

[hotdogPi]

And what is that no parking sign font???

And worse - the drug free school zone sign?

[Zeffy]

And worse - the drug free school zone sign?

That's a New Jersey standard in most towns and cities from what I can tell. My town has them. The NO PARKING sign looks to be off-font though.

[6a]

This button copy sign [street view link] has apparently been replaced recently.  The replacement has an OH 71 shield.  It can be seen from the freeway if you're looking at the right moment.

On the subject of things guiding you to I-71,

[Eth]

And worse - the drug free school zone sign?

That's a New Jersey standard in most towns and cities from what I can tell. My town has them.

As far as I'm aware it's a national standard. They're all over the place in Georgia and look exactly like that one.

[jakeroot]

This button copy sign [street view link] has apparently been replaced recently.  The replacement has an OH 71 shield.  It can be seen from the freeway if you're looking at the right moment.

On the subject of things guiding you to I-71,

I see America has adopted the British Motorway color scheme. How considerate of us.

Edit: Okay so it's a guide sign so the color is appropriate, but I've found a new annoying thing about that sign...that appears to be the Roadgeek font arrow, or a really squished version of the MUTCD-compliant directional arrow.

[doorknob60]

In Nampa, at the intersection of 16th Ave and 2nd St S, driving south on 16th, there is a One Way sign pointing right. East of 16th, 2nd is a two way street, and west of 16th, it's a 1 way street. So from that intersection, you can turn either right or left onto 2nd, so I would consider the one way sign erroneous, or at the very least, misleading. Street View: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.575331,-116.556403,3a,60.9y,238.95h,89.74t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI6AnTJWZipyaoVGGJT4nPw!2e0

[jakeroot]

In Nampa, at the intersection of 16th Ave and 2nd St S, driving south on 16th, there is a One Way sign pointing right. East of 16th, 2nd is a two way street, and west of 16th, it's a 1 way street. So form that intersection, you can turn either right or left onto 2nd, so I would consider the one way sign erroneous, or at the very least, misleading. Street View: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.575331,-116.556403,3a,60.9y,238.95h,89.74t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI6AnTJWZipyaoVGGJT4nPw!2e0

Putting a one-way sign somewhere in the intersection would be required, but I'm not sure I love the current location.

[roadfro]

In Nampa, at the intersection of 16th Ave and 2nd St S, driving south on 16th, there is a One Way sign pointing right. East of 16th, 2nd is a two way street, and west of 16th, it's a 1 way street. So form that intersection, you can turn either right or left onto 2nd, so I would consider the one way sign erroneous, or at the very least, misleading. Street View: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.575331,-116.556403,3a,60.9y,238.95h,89.74t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI6AnTJWZipyaoVGGJT4nPw!2e0

Putting a one-way sign somewhere in the intersection would be required, but I'm not sure I love the current location.

MUTCD placement would say the one way sign should be on the near right and far left corners, so in this instance you wouldn't put one on the far left.

However, since it is one way away from the intersection, you could almost argue not installing a one way sign at all, instead using a "begin one way" sign just beyond the intersection.

[1995hoo]

And worse - the drug free school zone sign?

That's a New Jersey standard in most towns and cities from what I can tell. My town has them.

As far as I'm aware it's a national standard. They're all over the place in Georgia and look exactly like that one.

The ones we have here are black on yellow and in a more legible font.

[getemngo]

And worse - the drug free school zone sign?

That's a New Jersey standard in most towns and cities from what I can tell. My town has them.

As far as I'm aware it's a national standard. They're all over the place in Georgia and look exactly like that one.

The ones we have here are black on yellow and in a more legible font.

In Michigan, I nearly always see this one:



...except it's in Helvetica and has a blank line at the bottom to put the district's name. (My district had a 17 letter hyphenated name and kept it blank.)

But the blue and white sign is apparently widespread enough that you can buy it on a hat, button, or shirt.

[JoePCool14]

Illinois had US-21 rolling by US-45 a while back. Since replaced.

[jbnv]

And worse - the drug free school zone sign?

I have the 1980s on the phone, ready to apologize for those signs.

[jakeroot]

And worse - the drug free school zone sign?

I have the 1980s on the phone, ready to apologize for those signs.

^^Pic directly above^^

[Thing 342]

VA 351 doesn't run through here, and AFAIK never has. Maybe it's to give some love to VA 351, as it is blown off by Westbound US 60 and I-64.

Also, the shields are just stretched versions of the 2 digit shield, as opposed to the standard wide shield (where the top corners would be perfectly circular)

[JoePCool14]

DOTs are really lazy sometimes... 

[gilpdawg]

I don't have pictures, but Ohio's been recently replacing a number of US signs (30 and 250 in particular, as that's where I'm at) with OH signs.  I know in Wilmot there's a US 250 intersection sign on 62 that's in an Ohio shield (it us US 30 and US 250), and the JCT 30/250 sign on OH 3 northbound near Wooster has both route in Ohio shields.

Same with US 50 at the Mehring Way intersection in downtown Cincinnati. But it may have been fixed, unless the GSV image is old.

[Mapmikey]

VA 351 doesn't run through here, and AFAIK never has. Maybe it's to give some love to VA 351, as it is blown off by Westbound US 60 and I-64.

Also, the shields are just stretched versions of the 2 digit shield, as opposed to the standard wide shield (where the top corners would be perfectly circular)

This error was a new one on me.  Hampton has a history of wrong route signs...

Here is one in Phoebus from 2007 (this is actually VA 143)
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.020048,-76.32272,3a,75y,246h,87.15t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI0dNBTQeWGpzaa5TUfzsbQ!2e0

Mapmikey

[6a]

I was working in western NY the past few days, ran across this on NY 60

[okroads]

DSC01657 by okroads, on Flickr

Interstate 275 East? Picture taken by me on 3-17-14.

[Zeffy]

New street sign... and looks like they reversed the 'D' and the 'R'... it's Amwell Rd! 



There is also one on the opposite side heading south with the same mistake. These signs are a new install because I just used this road a week ago and did not see these.

[FLRoads]

U.S. 93 apparently has been extended east from Phoenix to Texarkana!


Not only is the U.S. 93 shield wrong (suppose to be Texas 93) but the mileage is incorrect for the split of U.S. 59 and Texas 151 to U.S. 71. It really should be four miles, not two.

[thenetwork]

U.S. 93 apparently has been extended east from Phoenix to Texarkana!

EXIT 2 MILE ??? Either drop the LE or add an S.

[Road Hog]

That US 93 error has been there for at least four years. I know that's a recent photo because of the I-369 added patch.

[PurdueBill]

U.S. 93 apparently has been extended east from Phoenix to Texarkana!


Not only is the U.S. 93 shield wrong (suppose to be Texas 93) but the mileage is incorrect for the split of U.S. 59 and Texas 151 to U.S. 71. It really should be four miles, not two.

The right-hand sign could use an arrow, too.

[JoePCool14]

It can't be EXIT ONLY without an arrow, correct? Cause that sign is stupid.