The Best of Road Signs

[HighwayMaster]

Near North Canton in Jackson Township, on Sunset Strip Avenue (just off of I-77 Exit 111), there is a yellow YIELD sign going north towards Applegrove Street. I'll have to snap a pic of it when I can.

[PurdueBill]

Just inside Ohio off US 30, near the Indiana line, is this yellow Yield sign.  It's in plain view to passersby on US 30 but on an intersecting road that in turn intersects a road parallel to US 30.  Both are county roads, so it's up to the counties, not ODOT.  It probably also helps that it's pretty much on a county line (Paulding/Van Wert) so it's at an edge of either county's jurisdiction.  The signblades are modern enough to suggest that they know the sign is there and have allowed it to stay.

[Alps]

That is the only triangular gantry you will find in Oklahoma. I believe Jeremy has advised the 51 was replaced by a meat cleaver when that was the thing to do.

There are two assemblies, one with a cleaver and one with the circle intact. You can see the cleaver one in the background.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

A nice, old sign on a gantry that isn't familiar at all to me (which would make it even older to me). This is located on I-5 south in LA County.

[HighwayMaster]

That's sort of what the one on Sunset Strip Avenue looks like.

[blawp]

The blades qualify for worst-of.

[PurdueBill]

The blades qualify for worst-of.

I had almost cropped out the blades (sign blades, not fan blades) but decided in case anyone wanted to locate it in mapping or something to leave them in.  I'm still relieved that the ugly modern blades were installed but the yellow yield sign was allowed to stay--they could have easily replaced the yield sign while doing the sign blades.

[1995hoo]

This is on private property, the exit from the underground car park at the Whole Foods store on Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia. It's weird but I like it because the stop sign of which it warns is otherwise very hard to see and catches drivers unaware. You see where that thing is for the overheight vehicles? The stop sign is below that and to the right, basically 90 degrees around the corner a few feet from the front of my car when I took this picture. People were constantly going through without stopping and the management put up these two signs.

[Rover_0]

I've put it up in the "Mountain West" sub-thread only, but I'll put it here, too. This is the bare minimum Utah should do with concurrent routes (as in no placards, that is):



Bonus points for the classic Utah Beehive sign with Series D numerals (which isn't new).

[Ian]

This is on private property, the exit from the underground car park at the Whole Foods store on Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia. It's weird but I like it because the stop sign of which it warns is otherwise very hard to see and catches drivers unaware. You see where that thing is for the overheight vehicles? The stop sign is below that and to the right, basically 90 degrees around the corner a few feet from the front of my car when I took this picture. People were constantly going through without stopping and the management put up these two signs.

In a way, it reminds me of what New Hampshire does when they have stop/yield signs that are around curves...

[architect77]

I've put it up in the "Mountain West" sub-thread only, but I'll put it here, too. This is the bare minimum Utah should do with concurrent routes (as in no placards, that is):



Bonus points for the classic Utah Beehive sign with Series D numerals (which isn't new).

Look how perfect the mast-arm traffic signals are!

[Alps]

This is on private property, the exit from the underground car park at the Whole Foods store on Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia. It's weird but I like it because the stop sign of which it warns is otherwise very hard to see and catches drivers unaware. You see where that thing is for the overheight vehicles? The stop sign is below that and to the right, basically 90 degrees around the corner a few feet from the front of my car when I took this picture. People were constantly going through without stopping and the management put up these two signs.

In a way, it reminds me of what New Hampshire does when they have stop/yield signs that are around curves...

Seen that in the Midwest/Southwest too. It may be coming to an MUTCD near you someday.

[Ian]

Seen that in the Midwest/Southwest too. It may be coming to an MUTCD near you someday.

I'm glad to hear that not only New Hampshire has these. I like them!

[the49erfan15]

Went out on a drive this afternoon, found some interesting signs in an industrial area that is technically a county road, but serves as a driveway through some loading docks and such...


Old yellow stop sign, or highly-faded red??


Old + rusted = good, right?


Can anyone date this one?


Reads "Entering School District No. 2" - This one was outside the industrial road, but I found it interesting because (other than being a school district boundary posted on a road - ???) that school district no longer exists.

[national highway 1]

I've put it up in the "Mountain West" sub-thread only, but I'll put it here, too. This is the bare minimum Utah should do with concurrent routes (as in no placards, that is):

Also on the topic of Utah concurrencies, one of the only places where I-70 and US 50 are signed concurrently in Utah, in the Fishlake National Forest.

[thenetwork]

I've put it up in the "Mountain West" sub-thread only, but I'll put it here, too. This is the bare minimum Utah should do with concurrent routes (as in no placards, that is):

Also on the topic of Utah concurrencies, one of the only places where I-70 and US 50 are signed concurrently in Utah, in the Fishlake National Forest.

...Unfortunately, this above assembly replaced a whole slew of U.S. 50 cut-out shields...Perhaps the last cut-out shields in Utah.

[brownpelican]

Found this beauty hanging on the back of the Varnado Museum in my town (Franklinton, La.):



This was one of two signs that hung on the superstructure of the old Chess Richardson Memorial Bridge in my town. The bridge was replaced last decade by a new bridge and the old one was torn down. However, the town was able to get this sign from the state.

[Rover_0]

I've put it up in the "Mountain West" sub-thread only, but I'll put it here, too. This is the bare minimum Utah should do with concurrent routes (as in no placards, that is):

Also on the topic of Utah concurrencies, one of the only places where I-70 and US 50 are signed concurrently in Utah, in the Fishlake National Forest.

...Unfortunately, this above assembly replaced a whole slew of U.S. 50 cut-out shields...Perhaps the last cut-out shields in Utah.

I don't know if UDOT ever had cutout US-50 signs along I-70, but they did with US-89:



Now, those have been replaced by standard squares, with one exception (below).

Since we're on the subject of US cutouts in Utah, I'm surprised that this hasn't been mentioned (as far as I know)...it's still there, going EB on I-70 and NB on US-89 after the Sigurd exit:



The I-70/US-89 concurrency is easily the best-signed I/US concurrency in Utah (even with square US-89 shields almost everywhere), though I-70/US-50 (as far as Fishlake National Forest/Sevier County is concerned) is up there. BTW, I'm a-OK with the I-70/US-50 signage as is, as well; better to get the routes right than how they are signed, at least at this point.

[agentsteel53]

This was one of two signs that hung on the superstructure of the old Chess Richardson Memorial Bridge in my town. The bridge was replaced last decade by a new bridge and the old one was torn down. However, the town was able to get this sign from the state.

that is very cool.  what year was the bridge opened?  I do not know when the state of Louisiana was using black signs with button copy.  There is a black sign for the Superdome still around in New Orleans - I believe it is a city job, however. 

did Louisiana ever generally use button copy?  if they did, it was a long time ago.  I've seen precisely one green button copy sign in LA, and the fact that it was the only one around implies to me it was a hasty contract to replace one that was knocked down, and a button-copy supplier got the bid - likely by getting rid of obsolete old stock in the early 2000s.

[yakra]

A unique variation on the Big Lazy Unisign.

[national highway 1]

A nice, old sign on a gantry that isn't familiar at all to me (which would make it even older to me). This is located on I-5 south in LA County.

A similar one on US 101 southbound at Mission Rd, Exit 1E in Los Angeles.

[kphoger]

In Coyame, Chihuahua:

[roadman65]

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Three places in the Bayou State.

The first one is the neat colored shields that LA is slowly replacing with black on white ones.
The second I find interesting not only cause it is black on white text, but because this sign lets motorists know that there is a 90 degree curve approaching rather than a change in alignment.
The last is obvious as to why you need two junctions signs for the same highway, when usually always one is used.

[Brandon]

Since we're on the subject of US cutouts in Utah, I'm surprised that this hasn't been mentioned (as far as I know)...it's still there, going EB on I-70 and NB on US-89 after the Sigurd exit:



The I-70/US-89 concurrency is easily the best-signed I/US concurrency in Utah (even with square US-89 shields almost everywhere), though I-70/US-50 (as far as Fishlake National Forest/Sevier County is concerned) is up there. BTW, I'm a-OK with the I-70/US-50 signage as is, as well; better to get the routes right than how they are signed, at least at this point.

Nice US-89 shield.  I'd rather see these than the stupid square.

[1995hoo]

In Coyame, Chihuahua:

I hate encountering topes, but I've always loved the topes sign. Maybe it could be adapted for use in the USA: "Nudie Bar Ahead."