US/State mixup shield error signs

[ErmineNotyours]

US 169, should be SR 169, Maple Valley, Washington.

SR 169 as US 169 by Arthur Allen, on Flickr

[PHLBOS]

As promised!

This brand new BGS was installed sometime between Saturday, July 14th and Wednesday, July 25th.

Way to go, PennDOT!  Especially considering the US-422 reassurance marker AND mile marker with US-422 shield BOTH RIGHT THERE!!!

The erroneous 422 shield has since been replaced with a US 422 shield; I saw it yesterday (Aug. 25) while biking along the Schuylkill River Trail.  The new shield is actually rectangular w/a green background and has Series D 422 numerals (should've been Series C IMHO).

[tckma]

The erroneous 422 shield has since been replaced with a US 422 shield; I saw it yesterday (Aug. 25) while biking along the Schuylkill River Trail.  The new shield is actually rectangular w/a green background and has Series D 422 numerals (should've been Series C IMHO).

Noticed that myself several weeks ago when they put a corrected US-422 shield up in what seemed to be a bit of a slapdash manner.  I couldn't figure out what was wrong with the numbers -- they seemed to me to be barely contained by the left side of the shield.

[formulanone]

"State Road 192" just west of I-95 for US 192:



(There's a few concentrated in that area.)

[csw]

Not sure if this has been posted, but I found a SD 87 error near Wind Cave NP:

https://goo.gl/maps/hTdQz4rjPmM2

[apeman33]

I posted this in the Facebook sign errors group last month but for those of you who aren't a part of that, this is a photo I took about July 8 of an error Ohio 400 sign. I went to see if it was still there after another poster put up a photo of this sign earlier.



(Edit: Was able to finally get the photo to link)

This is on U.S. 400 near Strauss, which is about nine miles east of Parsons in Labette County. And it's not the first time Ohio shields have appeared in Labette County. When the bypass around Parsons first opened, the contractor posted the entire thing with Ohio 400 shields. My guess is that either KDOT or the county kept the signs when they corrected the mistakes and then used one of them by mistake to replace a missing U.S. shield.

Found the originals! From 2003:

[formulanone]

^ I can't believe they made the same mistake...again.

Wrong-state errors are the best errors.

[Henry]

US 337, should be VA 337:

[Mapmikey]

US 337, should be VA 337:

you plan on crediting that photo to anyone?  especially since it is pulled from the author's source?

[csw]

They're correct in this GSV link, but the US 11 shields have been replaced with incorrect NY 11 shields on this assembly in Whitney Point.

https://goo.gl/maps/fYqQo9ZsK5p

[paulthemapguy]

One of several US/state route mixups for US52 that I noticed east of Cincinnati on these wide unisigns.  This one is for cars on OH-232 reaching the T-intersection.


OH-232-US52SZ by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[US 89]

Here's a mixup for what should be UT 73, in Lehi:

[Truvelo]

US 4 in Marion, OH. On the 2013 Streetview imagery is it shown with the correct OH shield. There is another US 4 shield in the same town.

[MNHighwayMan]

Do ones that never got posted count?

This is a US/state route mix-up error shield from New York that I recently purchased. None of the holes have been punched through the sheeting, although it clearly saw a little bit of abuse while in storage. The upper left edge was also a bit screwed up in fabrication, since the black doesn't completely fill in that corner.

[polarscribe]

Either I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque, or Oregon DOT botched a sign. Not sure which 

OR 201 just west of the Idaho line, intersection with Succor Creek Cutoff, Malheur County.

[PHLBOS]

Due to the cold & being pressed for time; I was not able to get a photo of such last night when I saw it, but an erroneous US 261 shield has recently been erected along DE 92 (Naamans Rd.) westbound shortly before the intersection with DE 261 (Foulk Rd.).  It replaced an older JCT. 261 assembly that had the correct DE 261 shield (shown in latest July 2018 GSV) that was likely either vandalized or destroyed in an accident.

[WillWeaverRVA]

US 60 got downgraded in Richmond.

[paulthemapguy]

Due to the cold & being pressed for time; I was not able to get a photo of such last night when I saw it, but an erroneous US 261 shield has recently been erected along DE 92 (Naamans Rd.) westbound shortly before the intersection with DE 261 (Foulk Rd.).  It replaced an older JCT. 261 assembly that had the correct DE 261 shield (shown in latest July 2018 GSV) that was likely either vandalized or destroyed in an accident.

I posted my own US261 error a while back!

Here's one I found in southern Utah this past week.  This is UT-261 just south of the Moki Dugway and UT-316.


UT-US261SRX by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[Truvelo]

This is wrong on two counts. It should be PA 94 and even if it was a US highway the shape is too pointy at the bottom.

[PHLBOS]

This is wrong on two counts. It should be PA 94 and even if it was a US highway the shape is too pointy at the bottom.

Ah, the dreaded & hated acorn-shaped US route shield.

[csw]

Saw both of these in the last couple weeks.

What should be US 6 approaching Hartford, CT: https://goo.gl/maps/ActcmTd4y7S2

Technically this assembly in Golden, CO, is correct...but US 6 doesn't meet US 93 until Ely, Nevada. Should be CO-93.

[Michael]

I drove past a sign for "NY 20" last week.  As I looked at the signs, I thought something was off, but it took me a second to realize the shield was for NY 20 instead of US 20.  I think what was throwing me off was that the numbers in both shields are thinner than normal too.

I don't have a picture, but a month or so ago, I saw that the shields for US 11 in Cicero at this intersection were replaced with NY 11 shields.

[Road Hog]

Two things wrong with this sign in Colbert, OK. One, it should be US 69. Two, they used the old circle state highway sign instead of the meat cleaver that went into effect more than a decade ago.

They got it right on the LGS in the background.

[WNYroadgeek]

Seems New York decided that having both NY 88 and I-88 just wasn't enough (and they decided to extend US 31 just for kicks): https://goo.gl/maps/BB5wNx3NGNC2

[Rothman]

Seems New York decided that having both NY 88 and I-88 just wasn't enough (and they decided to extend US 31 just for kicks): https://goo.gl/maps/BB5wNx3NGNC2

Egads.