Erroneous road signs

Started by FLRoads, January 20, 2009, 04:01:44 PM

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Alex

Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 21, 2010, 05:03:09 PM
I wouldn't really consider that error "infamous", seeing as US-202 switches to DE-202 not too far north of there.  It's a fairly silly switch in route importance; why not call the whole thing US-202 all the way to the end?  especially since at least three or four signs are in error.

Infamous that it has persisted for a good five years now...


Icodec

#851
Quote from: Adam Smith on November 09, 2010, 08:49:24 PM

Meanwhile for your run-of-the-mill sign error
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/5162404899_ee2da57cb8_b.jpg
What I like about this sign mistake, ODOT district 6 office is 200 yds behind this sign.
It must be a Delaware city, not ODOT, problem because theres another US 37 shield a mile back also.

There's another incorrect sign on 37, near the interchange with 23 showing 37 multiplexed with 42 and 36. Since when has that been in place?

Hot Rod Hootenanny

Quote from: Icodec on November 28, 2010, 11:36:55 AM
Quote from: Adam Smith on November 09, 2010, 08:49:24 PM

Meanwhile for your run-of-the-mill sign error
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/5162404899_ee2da57cb8_b.jpg
What I like about this sign mistake, ODOT district 6 office is 200 yds behind this sign.
It must be a Delaware city, not ODOT, problem because theres another US 37 shield a mile back also.

There's another incorrect sign on 37, near the interchange with 23 showing 37 multiplexed with 42 and 36. Since when has that been in place?

1988
Please, don't sue Alex & Andy over what I wrote above

Icodec

Quote from: Adam Smith on November 29, 2010, 11:00:36 PM
Quote from: Icodec on November 28, 2010, 11:36:55 AM
Quote from: Adam Smith on November 09, 2010, 08:49:24 PM

Meanwhile for your run-of-the-mill sign error.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/5162404899_ee2da57cb8_b.jpg
What I like about this sign mistake, ODOT district 6 office is 200 yds behind this sign.
It must be a Delaware city, not ODOT, problem because theres another US 37 shield a mile back also.

There's another incorrect sign on 37, near the interchange with 23 showing 37 multiplexed with 42 and 36. Since when has that been in place?

1988

Last time I checked, 36 wasn't concurrent until further east, and 42 is never concurrent with 37 at all. I didn't mean the sign, I meant the nonexistent concurrency.

Hot Rod Hootenanny

Quote from: Icodec on November 30, 2010, 09:54:51 PM
Quote from: Adam Smith on November 29, 2010, 11:00:36 PM
Quote from: Icodec on November 28, 2010, 11:36:55 AM
Quote from: Adam Smith on November 09, 2010, 08:49:24 PM

Meanwhile for your run-of-the-mill sign error.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/5162404899_ee2da57cb8_b.jpg
What I like about this sign mistake, ODOT district 6 office is 200 yds behind this sign.
It must be a Delaware city, not ODOT, problem because theres another US 37 shield a mile back also.

There's another incorrect sign on 37, near the interchange with 23 showing 37 multiplexed with 42 and 36. Since when has that been in place?

1988

Last time I checked, 36 wasn't concurrent until further east, and 42 is never concurrent with 37 at all. I didn't mean the sign, I meant the nonexistent concurrency.

Sorry, thought you were asking about the sign(s) you were questioning. Otherwise those signs are there to assist drivers coming off US 23 to find US 42 north and US 36 east. Just like there are signs for Oh 37 east along US 36 between US 23 and "the point."
Please, don't sue Alex & Andy over what I wrote above

Icodec

Maybe the sign should include a "to" in the signs, so it says, "37 EAST TO 36 AND 42."

Hot Rod Hootenanny

Quote from: Icodec on December 03, 2010, 06:05:51 PM
Maybe the sign should include a "to" in the signs, so it says, "37 EAST TO 36 AND 42."

Delaware/ODOT has problems with *To* signs as well.
Please, don't sue Alex & Andy over what I wrote above

WillWeaverRVA

#857
A LOT of these erroneous VA 636 shields have appeared along US 360 in Mechanicsville...







There are also VA 643 shields posted in various places, but I don't have pictures of them. Also, they erroneously post VA 156 as an east-west route when it is in fact a north-south route.
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hbelkins

Since these are detour signs, any possibility these are contractor errors instead of VDOT errors?


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froggie


US71

Quote from: froggie on December 17, 2010, 09:21:25 AM
Quite possible.

Must be. Highway departments never make mistakes ;)

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WillWeaverRVA

It's more than likely contractor error, but the name of the thread IS "erroneous road signs"... :P
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Alps

If the highway department doesn't reject the sign for being wrong, they share the blame.

exit322

Quote from: Icodec on November 30, 2010, 09:54:51 PM
Last time I checked, 36 wasn't concurrent until further east, and 42 is never concurrent with 37 at all. I didn't mean the sign, I meant the nonexistent concurrency.

Very often they put the 37 co-signed with 36 there.  It probably should be labeled "TRUCK 37" because there's a very low clearance railroad overpass on 37 in the west side of Delaware.

rickmastfan67



And this is right near PennDOT's office in Washington!!

US71

#865
This one I'll have to explain:



It's actually supposed to be Greathouse Springs Rd

It just appeared last month on I-540 (the old Johnson Exit). So far, I seem to be the only one who has noticed it. :spin:

UPDATE: AHTD says they will be correcting the error. "The city of Johnson has it that way on their street signs and we didn't know it was wrong". 
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Scott5114

I think I see a shadow behind the tail of the G. Are they using demountable copy?
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hbelkins

Quote from: Scott5114 on December 19, 2010, 12:04:09 AM
I think I see a shadow behind the tail of the G. Are they using demountable copy?

If they are, it'd be an easy fix.


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SteveG1988

On the garden state parkway south of the great egg harbor bridge exists several signs for "when flashing tune to 1640AM for urgent message" Problem is, there are no flashing lights on any of these signs
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US71

Quote from: SteveG1988 on December 19, 2010, 04:04:20 PM
On the garden state parkway south of the great egg harbor bridge exists several signs for "when flashing tune to 1640AM for urgent message" Problem is, there are no flashing lights on any of these signs

There's one on I-90 at Rapid City that says "Do Not Enter When Flashing" , but has no lights. Maybe the sign itself flashes? ;)

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hbelkins

Quote from: US71 on December 19, 2010, 06:32:07 PM

There's one on I-90 at Rapid City that says "Do Not Enter When Flashing" , but has no lights. Maybe the sign itself flashes? ;)



What's that down near the bottom of the leftmost post on that sign? Is it some sort of box connected to an underground power source? If so, the sign might have LED flashers embedded in the border or somewhere else.


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US71

Quote from: hbelkins on December 19, 2010, 11:23:49 PM
What's that down near the bottom of the leftmost post on that sign? Is it some sort of box connected to an underground power source? If so, the sign might have LED flashers embedded in the border or somewhere else.

I didn't see any LED's embedded on the sign. Maybe it's a new sign that hadn't been lit yet?
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Hot Rod Hootenanny

Another US 37 sign error in Delaware (ho hum)

But I found this on the back of the "incorrect" shield
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Kniwt

Recently installed on I-15 south near Barstow:

agentsteel53

that is extremely recent - as in, it wasn't there less than a month ago.

also, why the patch already on the exit number?

too bad they didn't sign US-466...
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