Signs With Design Errors

[jakeroot]

A and a switched; O and o switched::

I'm usually not phased by small errors, but this is pretty bad.

[hbelkins]

That gets pretty close to Craig County.

[cl94]

That gets pretty close to Craig County.

I was thinking that

[thenetwork]

Not the first time I've seen this:

https://goo.gl/maps/pxX1YihzeM92

What is the error here?

Looks at the 'S' in SOUTH and Pittsburgh. They've been swapped.

Good eye on that on. Totally missed that.  Now that I look at the sign again, the letter P looks a little off as well.

[roadfro]

Not the first time I've seen this:

https://goo.gl/maps/pxX1YihzeM92

What is the error here?

Looks at the 'S' in SOUTH and Pittsburgh. They've been swapped.

Good eye on that on. Totally missed that.  Now that I look at the sign again, the letter P looks a little off as well.

First thing I noticed on that one was that the fraction rectangle looks too tall...

[jbnv]

The real loser is the signage for I-80 on I-79.  This kind of thing is why Clearview had to die.  This didn't happen rampantly until Clearview came along.

Right. because nobody ever made the lowercase letters too small until they started doing it in Clearview. 

[CobaltYoshi27]

This was viral a while ago, but it fits the thread so well. It was located somewhere on the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.

[jbnv]

This was viral a while ago, but it fits the thread so well. It was located somewhere on the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.

Where's the design error?

[Big John]

This was viral a while ago, but it fits the thread so well. It was located somewhere on the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.

[CobaltYoshi27]

This was viral a while ago, but it fits the thread so well. It was located somewhere on the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.

Where's the design error?

It's supposed to say "Blizzard Warning 4AM Saturday to <insert time here> on Sunday" but they kind of missed it. It's more of a display error than a design error.

[Pete from Boston]

It still made me just about spit my drink out.

"Lizzard" sounds like a heavy metal band.

[PurdueBill]

The real loser is the signage for I-80 on I-79.  This kind of thing is why Clearview had to die.  This didn't happen rampantly until Clearview came along.

Right. because nobody ever made the lowercase letters too small until they started doing it in Clearview. 

Not literally never, but it became rampant after.  The recindment of the interim approval mentioned all the design problems that started to happen after Clearview spread. 

The irony of those signs is that one benefit of Clearview was the taller lowercase letters, but what did they do designing and assembling those signs?

I think the spirit of the elimination was basically FHWA saying "we let you try using it; many of you can't seem to handle it properly or listen to our directions; go back to using what we all used before which you seemed to be able to handle better."

Now to avoid totally derailing the thread, here's one more S/s switcheroo, this time from Arizona, from Steve's AZ 202 page.  Small caps S and lowercase full-size s seemed to have traded places around the country (MA, OH, AZ) back in button copy days!

For comparison, S's in the correct placeS:

[CobaltYoshi27]

It still made me just about spit my drink out.

"Lizzard" sounds like a heavy metal band.

Have you heard the band Mewt Lizzard? They're awesome, but they got sued for ripping off Def Leppard. 

[Ian]

This was viral a while ago, but it fits the thread so well. It was located somewhere on the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.

Must be those Lizard People of New York.

[CobaltYoshi27]

This was viral a while ago, but it fits the thread so well. It was located somewhere on the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.

Must be those Lizard People of New York.

This was in a suburb on New York City, so I guess that works. haha

[JoePCool14]

On the way into the city on Cicero today, spotted this lovely advisory sign.

Also found a possible candidate for the Department of Redundancy Department thread which I'll post there.

[noelbotevera]

CoNCessiOnS

[Pete from Boston]

It still made me just about spit my drink out.

"Lizzard" sounds like a heavy metal band.

Have you heard the band Mewt Lizzard? They're awesome, but they got sued for ripping off Def Leppard. 

You got me.

[theFXexpert]

I hope this sign dies during construction.

[hotdogPi]

I hope this sign dies during construction.

What's the error, other than that FL 52 doesn't go to San Antonio?

[Big John]

^^ The 5 looks to be D while the 2 is C and the panhandle is not that thick.

[renegade]

OK, so replace the State Route 52 shield, and everything will be awesome in the universe, right?

[theFXexpert]

What's the error, other than that FL 52 doesn't go to San Antonio?

Except that it does.

And, yes. The shield is a bit of a mess.

[jeffandnicole]

What's the error, other than that FL 52 doesn't go to San Antonio?

Except that it does.

And, yes. The shield is a bit of a mess.

Yeah, the shield is bad, but we're not really talking the entire sign should die-type level of disaster.  The shield can be replaced pretty easily if they really wanted to.

[Alex]

I hope this sign dies during construction.

It will, every sign for CR 41 is now posted on an overhead (as you saw per your recent post). It appears that the six laning of I-75 will result in new overheads for all the other Hernando, Pasco and Sumter exits as well.