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

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US71

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roadfro

#426
Quote from: US71 on October 04, 2009, 07:05:19 PM
US 93 near Texarkana

At first, I was thinking "there's nothing wrong with using a temporary construction exit tab" before I realized it was US 93 signed next to a Texas FM route. I assume that should be Texas SH 93?
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xonhulu

Quote from: Tom on September 22, 2009, 08:31:49 PM
Actually, I like seeing a US-99 sign, because it's another way of keeping the memory of US-99 alive. :coffee:

Well, here's Oregon's last vestige of US 99 in Corvallis.  If you look carefully, you can see in the upper part of the sign, there is a patch, but on the bottom part it's either fallen off or was never covered up.  Like the Seattle sign, this one isn't an error, as it dates back to when US 99W was still around.  There are some US 99 shields in southern Oregon, but they're all more recent mistakes and should be OR 99 shields.  Enjoy!


agentsteel53

well I'll be damned, I always thought that was a recent error sign! 
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US71

Quote from: roadfro on October 04, 2009, 11:02:45 PM

At first, I was thinking "there's nothing wrong with using a temporary construction exit tab" before I realized it was US 93 signed next to a Texas FM route. I assume that should be Texas SH 93?

Yes.
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Rover_0

#430
Quote from: US71 on July 30, 2009, 10:33:53 PM
Quote from: mefailenglish on July 30, 2009, 10:27:21 PM
Poor US 40, downgraded to State Route status.


Ditto US 62





US-89 in Utah can't even be spared the same fate, at the north end of UT-165 where it meets US-89/91:

  :-P
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US71

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US71

Quote from: HighwayMaster on October 07, 2009, 05:35:00 PM

Uh...an infamous one is my avatar. Check it out!

(It was taken down, the last time I checked.)

Yeah... it only lasted a few months. It was after the road was 4 Laned.
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okroads

U.S. 60 North? It should be U.S. 60 East...

agentsteel53

the same error exists in the other direction too.
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US71

This one is wrong, too (though it does run more N-S than E-W)
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There's no BL-I-29 in Fargo, this should be I-29
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Quote from: Master son on October 09, 2009, 01:16:11 PM


There's no BL-I-29 in Fargo, this should be I-29

You'd think they could've spent a little more money to make the shields and text as legible as the big honkin' arrows! :pan:

Sykotyk

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rawlins,+wy&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&gl=us&ei=jAfRSuT7K5WntgehtYiDBA&ved=0CBEQ8gEwAA&layer=c&cbll=41.59205,-109.187159&panoid=96_EtOrDdzOPSHzixK30dw&cbp=12,251.31,,0,-16.96&hq=&hnear=Rawlins,+Carbon,+Wyoming&ll=41.592049,-109.187279&spn=0.015342,0.037894&z=15

There's nothing currently wrong with the Google Streetview of the sign now. But once construction was finished, they replaced the green Business I-80 shield with an erroneous regular blue I-80 shield for the BL. Unless Wyoming corrects it, the next time Google's through you should see it. I probably won't be out that way for a while to get a photo of it.

Sykotyk

xonhulu

Sad news from my eastern Oregon/southeastern Washington trip this weekend:  the long-standing US 82 shield in La Grande is gone, replaced with the correct OR 82 shield.  However, I saw a US 127 and another WA 12 from Washington to make up for it.

agentsteel53

was that the OR-82 on the railroad overpass?
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xonhulu

#441
Quote from: agentsteel53 on October 11, 2009, 10:59:23 PM
was that the OR-82 on the railroad overpass?

Yup.  Here's the before and after shots.  You can actually see the discolored spot from the old shield in the picture of the new, plus the "shadow" of an even earlier shield.



Here's the US 127 extension to Washington state:


agentsteel53

alas, the oldest shadow is not that of a cutout ... just looks to be a larger square.

as for US-127, there is a US-123 as well in Washington.

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florida

And a US 21 in Florida.


It's pretty sad when a correct one is hidden underneath trees, just feet away.
So many roads...so little time.

corco

That stoplight ahead sign in the background is also mounted upside down

Brandon

Quote from: corco on October 12, 2009, 10:19:03 AM
That stoplight ahead sign in the background is also mounted upside down

It's not the only time I've seen it.  The entrance to the inbound Ike (I-290) from westbound St Charles Rd has one for the ramp meter that's also upside down.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=41.889839,-87.921599&spn=0,359.993042&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=41.889839,-87.92171&panoid=iQNfLrMLNTUgZzyW0KRHOw&cbp=12,327.78,,0,6.46

How hard is it to put the red on top and the green on bottom?
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florida

Quote from: corco on October 12, 2009, 10:19:03 AM
That stoplight ahead sign in the background is also mounted upside down

Just the fact that the correct one is hidden by trees, then another one was mounted feet away, upside-down, is ridiculous. :pan:
So many roads...so little time.

Rover_0

'nother one, from Ogden, UT:

UT-79's east end at "US-203":

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US71

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CL

Quote from: Rover_0 on October 12, 2009, 06:15:42 PM
'nother one, from Ogden, UT:

UT-79's east end at "US-203":



This is only one of two US-shield-when-it's-really-an-SR errors I've seen in Utah - the other is approaching SR-210's northern terminus (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.617805,-111.789225&spn=0,359.986267&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.617653,-111.789174&panoid=eZhdKPPeZMm0UsRGmnr9oA&cbp=12,33.65,,0,4.65)
Infrastructure. The city.



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