Erroneous road signs

[WNYroadgeek]

Apparently US 16 got extended eastward to Buffalo at some point: https://goo.gl/maps/nj7VO (Should be NY 16, needless to say).

[okroads]

New sign on I-40 eastbound in Oklahoma City; Rockwell "Road" is signed instead of Rockwell "Ave".

DSC05128 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

[thenetwork]

New sign on I-40 eastbound in Oklahoma City; Rockwell "Road" is signed instead of Rockwell "Ave".

DSC05128 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

I will give them a pass if they are planning to pluck the side BGS out of the ground in the very near future, but if not...Why would you put the overhead sign right next to the advance exit sign for Morgan Road? (I know...because it's ODOT  )  One of those two signs should've been placed 1/4 mile away.

-- A message from the Department of the Redundancy Department...

[cjk374]

Welcome to beautiful northern.... Bossier City, LA?!?!?!?   

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130771900@N08/19144747938/in/album-72157655329475165/

Yes...new mileposts as part of a sign replacement project on I-220 around Shreveport & Bossier City, LA.  This is the only erroneous milepost so far.  (This is seen going westbound)

[route17fan]

Apparently US 16 got extended eastward to Buffalo at some point: https://goo.gl/maps/nj7VO (Should be NY 16, needless to say).

This is just getting ridiculous! NYSDOT is getting really bad at posting NY routes as US routes. Now NY 16 is in the bunch - along with the following:

US shields posted on NY routes 
NY 5 - Chautauqua County, just west of NY 76
NY 10 - Delaware county - a couple of shields posted
NY 16 - see link above
NY 17 - US 17 shields in Orange County (and a few in Sullivan County if memory serves)
NY 17C - a couple US 17C shields observed in Endicott
NY 27 - waay out east on Long Island near Shinnecock (eww)
NY 30A - a US 30A shield southbound just past I-88 Schoharie County
NY 34 - a US 34 shield - I know it's there, I just can't remember where I saw it.
NY 60 - was just a couple in Jamestown - now has moved north to Dunkirk including the northern terminus and the END! assembly and one Thruway BGS eastbound
NY 404 - US 404 shields observed
NY 481 - US 481 shields observed in Oswego

NY shields on US routes 
NY 9W - couple of them seen near Newburgh
NY 20A - couple of shields observed
NY 219 - on I-86/US 219 at exit 23 eastbound

UPSIDE DOWN NY shields 
NY 96 - excusable for the reasons mentioned in various other threads - still though, upside down
NY 337 - a TON of them!
NY 391 - one or two of them
NY 990V - various places along the route

[route17fan]

I joke about it, but the way things are going, US 990V just may be posted....in an upside down US shield no less..but may be posted. That scares the living crap out of me (lol)!

[steviep24]

Apparently US 16 got extended eastward to Buffalo at some point: https://goo.gl/maps/nj7VO (Should be NY 16, needless to say).

This is just getting ridiculous! NYSDOT is getting really bad at posting NY routes as US routes. Now NY 16 is in the bunch - along with the following:

US shields posted on NY routes 
NY 5 - Chautauqua County, just west of NY 76
NY 10 - Delaware county - a couple of shields posted
NY 16 - see link above
NY 17 - US 17 shields in Orange County (and a few in Sullivan County if memory serves)
NY 27 - waay out east on Long Island near Shinnecock (eww)
NY 30A - a US 30A shield southbound just past I-88 Schoharie County
NY 34 - a US 34 shield - I know it's there, I just can't remember where I saw it.
NY 60 - was just a couple in Jamestown - now has moved north to Dunkirk including the northern terminus and the END! assembly and one Thruway BGS eastbound

NY shields on US routes 
NY 9W - couple of them seen near Newburgh
NY 20A - couple of shields observed
NY 219 - on I-86/US 219 at exit 23 eastbound

UPSIDE DOWN NY shields 
NY 96 - excusable for the reasons mentioned in various other threads - still though, upside down
NY 337 - a TON of them!
NY 391 - one or two of them
NY 990V - various places along the route

NY 404 in Webster had a few US shields as of a few months ago. Not sure if they're still there.

[noelbotevera]

Also, the NY 210 bowtie shield. HORRIBLE! 

[route17fan]

Oh I forgot about the bowtie / "Budweiser" 210! and the US 404 shields

[hotdogPi]

Apparently US 16 got extended eastward to Buffalo at some point: https://goo.gl/maps/nj7VO (Should be NY 16, needless to say).

NY 34 - a US 34 shield - I know it's there, I just can't remember where I saw it.
NY 96 - excusable for the reasons mentioned in various other threads - still though, upside down

Both of these are in central Ithaca.

[formulanone]

Two from Lehigh Valley Airport...one looks a bit older than the other, but mysterious mix-ups just a quarter-mile apart are part of the fun.

[SignGeek101]

Two from Lehigh Valley Airport...one looks a bit older than the other, but mysterious mix-ups just a quarter-mile apart are part of the fun.

Yuck on the shape. Reminds me of some US 6 shields that were posted around here a while back.

[Big John]

Two from Lehigh Valley Airport...one looks a bit older than the other, but mysterious mix-ups just a quarter-mile apart are part of the fun.

Yuck on the shape. Reminds me of some US 6 shields that were posted around here a while back.

acorn shields 

[74/171FAN]

These two shields are on US 1/460 Business at VA 226. They're for a future construction project (a roundabout or two, I think). In addition to the erroneous US shield the direction is erroneous as VA 226, being an old alignment of US 460, is universally posted East-West.

Slightly OT, but in Chesapeake I noticed that VDOT created a US 13 DETOUR (the sign said use US 13 DETOUR for some reason the way I understood), to remind traffic to stay on I-64 during closures involving the Gilmerton Bridge  replacement project.

[WNYroadgeek]

Pretty sure the lower NY 36 shield should actually be a NY 63 shield: https://goo.gl/maps/0WSp9

NY 17 - US 17 shields in Orange County (and a few in Sullivan County if memory serves)

I've also seen a US 17 error shield in Elmira just east of NY 14. Will have to try and get a pic when I go down next weekend.

[Rothman]

I should check my memory, but I believe NYSDOT actually replaced a NY 9 shield on US 9 north as it approached I-90 in Albany.

It seems NYSDOT is putting up erroneous shields at a quicker pace than they are correcting them, however!

[route17fan]

True! We can add a couple of NY 62 shields on US 62 from Gowanda NY south.

[SignGeek101]

I've passed this sign probably hundreds of times. Never noticed the sign on the right is erroneous until today. It was correct in 2012.

https://goo.gl/maps/fyE6N

EDIT: The top bracket which holds the sign to the post probably failed, making the sign upside down. Still erroneous though.

[JCinSummerfield]

I've passed this sign probably hundreds of times. Never noticed the sign on the right is erroneous until today. It was correct in 2012.

https://goo.gl/maps/fyE6N

EDIT: The top bracket which holds the sign to the post probably failed, making the sign upside down. Still erroneous though.

The sign on the right actually looks correct to me, for where it is posted.  The one on the left should be further up, on the next island.

[roadfro]

I've passed this sign probably hundreds of times. Never noticed the sign on the right is erroneous until today. It was correct in 2012.

https://goo.gl/maps/fyE6N

EDIT: The top bracket which holds the sign to the post probably failed, making the sign upside down. Still erroneous though.

The sign on the right actually looks correct to me, for where it is posted.  The one on the left should be further up, on the next island.

It's a warning sign for a condition that lies ahead. If you swivel around, you see that the street up to this point has a median separation, so the warning applies to that portion of the street ahead where the median disappears. Thus, the sign in the median is correct and the sign on the right is wrong (or hanging upside down).

[JCinSummerfield]

I've passed this sign probably hundreds of times. Never noticed the sign on the right is erroneous until today. It was correct in 2012.

https://goo.gl/maps/fyE6N

EDIT: The top bracket which holds the sign to the post probably failed, making the sign upside down. Still erroneous though.

The sign on the right actually looks correct to me, for where it is posted.  The one on the left should be further up, on the next island.

It's a warning sign for a condition that lies ahead. If you swivel around, you see that the street up to this point has a median separation, so the warning applies to that portion of the street ahead where the median disappears. Thus, the sign in the median is correct and the sign on the right is wrong (or hanging upside down).

And I would agree with that, had they been posted on the other side of the intersection, rather than prior to it.  To me, it's the same concept of why speed limits are posted after an intersection, and not before it.  That way, the traffic turning onto the road can also be informed of the speed limit.

[roadfro]

I've passed this sign probably hundreds of times. Never noticed the sign on the right is erroneous until today. It was correct in 2012.

https://goo.gl/maps/fyE6N

EDIT: The top bracket which holds the sign to the post probably failed, making the sign upside down. Still erroneous though.

The sign on the right actually looks correct to me, for where it is posted.  The one on the left should be further up, on the next island.

It's a warning sign for a condition that lies ahead. If you swivel around, you see that the street up to this point has a median separation, so the warning applies to that portion of the street ahead where the median disappears. Thus, the sign in the median is correct and the sign on the right is wrong (or hanging upside down).

And I would agree with that, had they been posted on the other side of the intersection, rather than prior to it.  To me, it's the same concept of why speed limits are posted after an intersection, and not before it.  That way, the traffic turning onto the road can also be informed of the speed limit.

Except that warning signs of this nature are supposed to be placed a certain distance ahead of the condition. If you were to put this warning on the opposite side of the intersection, at a sufficient distance where drivers would be able to see it after completing their turn, you'd already be at the convergence point.

[vtk]

If the divided road becomes undivided just for an intersection and then immediately becomes divided again, I think these signs can be left out entirely.

[okroads]

DSC05331 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

Photo taken by me on July 11, 2015, in Boise City, OK. U.S. 385 North at U.S. 287.

[odditude]

DSC05331 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

Photo taken by me on July 11, 2015, in Boise City, OK. U.S. 385 North at U.S. 287.

can you point out the error(s) to us non-locals?