Erroneous road signs

[hbelkins]

Oh yeah. But wasn't that a temporary construction error?

[agentsteel53]

Oh yeah. But wasn't that a temporary construction error?

I think you're right.  I remember there being an orange banner above it, but I don't recall if that is for construction, or one of Michigan's ALTERNATE tabs.

[hbelkins]

I remember seeing some photos of it.

[route56]

There was an instance of an Ohio 400 shield being posted...on US-400...in Kansas.

I took photos of them. They were put on the bypass around Parsons when it first opened.

So did I....

[Scott5114]

There is also a "Connecticut 51" shield in Payne County, Oklahoma, although that one is arguable since it's just a white square someone decided to leave the meat cleaver off of (and then center).

[agentsteel53]

There is also a "Connecticut 51" shield in Payne County, Oklahoma, although that one is arguable since it's just a white square someone decided to leave the meat cleaver off of (and then center).

does it have the thick border?  if not, then it is a Massachusetts/Maine/old NH.

by that argument, there are several dozen Massachusetts shields in Connecticut. 

[Takumi]

by that argument, there are several dozen Massachusetts shields in Connecticut. 

There have been a few documented white squares in Virginia as well.

[Scott5114]

There is also a "Connecticut 51" shield in Payne County, Oklahoma, although that one is arguable since it's just a white square someone decided to leave the meat cleaver off of (and then center).

does it have the thick border?  if not, then it is a Massachusetts/Maine/old NH.

by that argument, there are several dozen Massachusetts shields in Connecticut. 

It has no border. It's on a BGS.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Don't see a lot of this kind of mistake in Colorado (Thenetwork's avatar notwithstanding). Sign replacement as part of a pavement rehabilitation project between Manzanola and Rocky Ford along (still) U.S. 50.


CO-50 by The High Plains Traveler, on Flickr

Here is a through-the-dirty-windshield shot where I had no safe place to stop, with the old sign immediately behind the new.

50-50 by The High Plains Traveler, on Flickr

Thenetwork's CO-24 signs over Tennessee Pass were up for over a year, I think. They finally disappeared between two trips I took there between September and October last year. We'll see if the CDOT project engineer's final inspection on this project yields a quick correction.

[national highway 1]

Don't see a lot of this kind of mistake in Colorado (Thenetwork's avatar notwithstanding). Sign replacement as part of a pavement rehabilitation project between Manzanola and Rocky Ford along (still) U.S. 50.


CO-50 by The High Plains Traveler, on Flickr


Thenetwork's CO-24 signs over Tennessee Pass were up for over a year, I think. They finally disappeared between two trips I took there between September and October last year. We'll see if the CDOT project engineer's final inspection on this project yields a quick correction.

Is the black outline around the 'C' in the Colorado shields standard practice or is it just a one-off?

[The High Plains Traveler]

Is the black outline around the 'C' in the Colorado shields standard practice or is it just a one-off?

Look at the shield gallery. I just did, despite the fact I drive past three different CO-state routes almost every day and couldn't otherwise have told you for sure. The border around the "C" on the state flag is standard. What I noted about the new signs along this stretch was a lack of CDOT maintenance decals on either side - true for all the new signage, including speed limit. Almost always they're on the front of the sign.

[Road Hog]

For a while in Texarkana eastbound on I-30, there was a US 93 shield on a BGS on the Texas side instead of Texas SH 93.

[thenetwork]

Thenetwork's CO-24 signs over Tennessee Pass were up for over a year, I think. They finally disappeared between two trips I took there between September and October last year. We'll see if the CDOT project engineer's final inspection on this project yields a quick correction.

Actually, the sign that is in my avatar was seen in beautiful downtown Minturn, CO

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=minturn,+co&hl=en&ll=39.589171,-106.431491&spn=0.004754,0.01237&sll=38.997934,-105.550567&sspn=4.908379,12.667236&hnear=Minturn,+Eagle,+Colorado&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=39.589129,-106.431391&panoid=GoaQLndSWtl3aSM0zXQWOA&cbp=12,345.49,,0,12.72

and IIRC was the last 24 shield (US, state, or otherwise) on WB US-24 before the END US-24 assembly at I-70/US-6.

[Alps]

Is the black outline around the 'C' in the Colorado shields standard practice or is it just a one-off?

It's that way on my wall, so it's likely standard.

[Central Avenue]

I find myself wondering what the reasoning behind the outlined "C" is. It's not like it's rendered that way on the flag the shield is based on...

[rickmastfan67]

I remember someone mentioning a Pennsylvania keystone 31 on US-31 in Michigan.

We happened to have a 2 page thread on this subject here.

[kendancy66]

Except for hallowed 66 and a piece of former 101 along Pacific Highway north of San Diego, I don't remember any "Historic" U.S. highway markings in California. I've driven long stretches of 99, 299, 58 (466) and 1 (Alt. 101) and seen no brown signs.

99 has some at the south end at least: http://www.usends.com/90-99/099/099.html

I've witnessed them for US 80 in San Diego, as well.

There are also historic US-395 signs in San Diego County, and historic US-99 signs on San Fernando Rd in Los Angeles.

[national highway 1]

Except for hallowed 66 and a piece of former 101 along Pacific Highway north of San Diego, I don't remember any "Historic" U.S. highway markings in California. I've driven long stretches of 99, 299, 58 (466) and 1 (Alt. 101) and seen no brown signs.

99 has some at the south end at least: http://www.usends.com/90-99/099/099.html

I've witnessed them for US 80 in San Diego, as well.

There are also historic US-395 signs in San Diego County, and historic US-99 signs on San Fernando Rd in Los Angeles.

So, speaking of Erroneous signs and Historic US 395, I'd like to show you this erroneous 'Historic US 163' sign on CA 163 in San Diego:

...and its replacement, which even though it is a white CA 163 spade, CA 163 itself only came into existence after 1964, when US 395 was truncated at I-15 at Hesperia in 1972.

[Central Avenue]

Spotted on Langley Avenue in Whitehall, Ohio:

[Scott5114]

This isn't a road sign, but it fits in well with DOTs getting road types confused...I think. I can't really explain what's going on here other than Missouri having weird superstitions about Interstates somehow being part of the U.S. route system.

[vtk]

This isn't a road sign, but it fits in well with DOTs getting road types confused...I think. I can't really explain what's going on here other than Missouri having weird superstitions about Interstates somehow being part of the U.S. route system.

They sort of are, in that AASH(T)O manages both, and an application to change an Interstate is actually an application to change a US route with a couple of extra boxes checked.

[WillWeaverRVA]

New sign on VA 195. VA 161 isn't Meadow Street, and the VA 161 exit is perfectly reachable without using the toll plaza.

[SSOWorld]

That's just to get drivers to go around Milwaukee - which is futile either way because that interchange clogs all the time.

[Alps]

Zip code/area code discussion has been moved to Off-Topic.

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=7725.0

[bjrush]

Arkansas 162 marked as US 162 in Alma