Erroneous road signs

[odditude]

This one was taken in 08, and any good road geek should know by looking at the sign what is erroneous about it.

guess i'm not a "good road geek" then, since i have no knowledge of Michigan. explanation?

[thenetwork]

This one was taken in 08, and any good road geek should know by looking at the sign what is erroneous about it.

guess i'm not a "good road geek" then, since i have no knowledge of Michigan. explanation?

US-27 has been de-commed north of Fort Wayne for years.

[TEG24601]

Yea, there were still a few left on I-69 when I left in Dec. 2008.

[noelbotevera]

That's probably a remnant for US 27 running north of Fort Wayne, not an erroneous sign.

[roadman65]

This one was taken in 08, and any good road geek should know by looking at the sign what is erroneous about it.

guess i'm not a "good road geek" then, since i have no knowledge of Michigan. explanation?

I meant that many of us here do know already of the decommissioning, not to say that we all should know about it.  It is pretty explainable why the sign is erroneous to most.

And to you noel, if a state road agency cannot remember to dispatch a crew to remove old road signs or at least update them after several years its not just remnants anymore!

[jakeroot]

This one was taken in 08, and any good road geek should know by looking at the sign what is erroneous about it.

guess i'm not a "good road geek" then, since i have no knowledge of Michigan. explanation?

I meant that many of us here do know already of the decommissioning, not to say that we all should know about it.  It is pretty explainable why the sign is erroneous to most.

I don't think everyone here knows as much as you think. Some of us specialize in different areas. I, for example, am pretty decent with anything related to traffic control, but I'm absolute shit when it comes to route numbers, where they're placed, etc. (For example, it takes me quite a long time to figure out, off the cuff, where US-27 would be in the US -- it's not that I can't eventually figure it out, but it's not knowledge that I would be able to access immediately, let alone whether or not it still exists in some areas).

[roadman65]

Do not take it so literal!  I am not grading you like some do on here as there are two users on here, no names, but they expect all users on here to know all state line diagrams in all 50 states and know every word from the Federal MUTCD verbatim.

No I was just being figurative when I said it.   

[noelbotevera]

So if a DOT fails to upgrade a sign after seven years, and that's not called a remnant, but they leave up a sign dating to an arrangement over 50 years old, and they never replace it, they call it a remnant? Then what is a remnant?

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Yeah, I guess I don't consider that "erroneous" since it wasn't an error when the sign was installed.

And honestly I'd pretty much hurt someone to find an old US 61 shield north of the Twin Cities now, of which I believe none remain.

[Kacie Jane]

Do not take it so literal!  I am not grading you like some do on here as there are two users on here, no names, but they expect all users on here to know all state line diagrams in all 50 states and know every word from the Federal MUTCD verbatim.

No I was just being figurative when I said it.   

If you don't like the way certain users treat others, the answer is not to copy the same behavior and expect us to assume you're joking.

[Zeffy]

This one was taken in 08, and any good road geek should know by looking at the sign what is erroneous about it.

guess i'm not a "good road geek" then, since i have no knowledge of Michigan. explanation?

I meant that many of us here do know already of the decommissioning, not to say that we all should know about it.  It is pretty explainable why the sign is erroneous to most.

I don't think everyone here knows as much as you think. Some of us specialize in different areas. I, for example, am pretty decent with anything related to traffic control, but I'm absolute shit when it comes to route numbers, where they're placed, etc. (For example, it takes me quite a long time to figure out, off the cuff, where US-27 would be in the US -- it's not that I can't eventually figure it out, but it's not knowledge that I would be able to access immediately, let alone whether or not it still exists in some areas).

Same. I also have a terrible memory, so most of the time I have to refer back to either Google Maps or the Internet to figure out where or what something is. Not all of us can can memorize where each highway used to run in addition to where current ones do. As with everyone else here, we're all different in our capabilities. Generalizations don't help.

[Billy F 1988]

^^ US 20 does not enter Alabama.

Because US 20 is actually a mid-Oregon to SoMass (southern Massachusetts) route. It starts nearby Portland, then starts cutting into southern Idaho, barely hits southwest Montana, mainly in the northwest quadrant of the park area, heads through northwest Wyoming, heads down in the middle part of the state where I think it's tripled with US 26 and 14 (correct me if it doesn't), then shoots east through extreme northern Nebraska/extreme southern South Dakota, then cuts through the middle of Iowa, northern Illinois, northern Indiana, northern Ohio, barely skirts northwest Pennsylvania, cuts through middle New York and into SoMass.

I'd like to think this is AL 20 that the sign in Tuscumbia is misrepresenting. It can't be I-20 because that doesn't go into Alabama either.

[bassoon1986]

^^ US 20 does not enter Alabama.

I'd like to think this is AL 20 that the sign in Tuscumbia is misrepresenting. It can't be I-20 because that doesn't go into Alabama either.

I-20 enters Alabama, just not northern Alabama in Florence.

[Billy F 1988]

Over by Cuba, York and Livingston, AL as I understand it where the 4/27/11 tornadoes were.

[roadman65]

Do not take it so literal!  I am not grading you like some do on here as there are two users on here, no names, but they expect all users on here to know all state line diagrams in all 50 states and know every word from the Federal MUTCD verbatim.

No I was just being figurative when I said it.   

If you don't like the way certain users treat others, the answer is not to copy the same behavior and expect us to assume you're joking.

Who says anything about disliking this user?  All I said was originally point out that the picture needed no explanation.  He got all hurt like I was calling him stupid!

Heck Kacie, there are more people on this site more critical than me!  You know who they are, and some of these have no sense of humor at all!  Some if you have bad grammar or say something on social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) about who you are to your friends and the other user witnesses it there, will always be critical here on this site.

I am not talking about my own experiences either. I have met guys on here outside this site and yes, some start out as good friends during road gatherings, and something happens to make them enemies.  People need to lighten up on here and not take things so hard!  Like one user on here once told another who defended me from one troll, who is nameless, hey if you cannot take snark on here then too bad as that is the fun of this site.

Anyway, I was not trying to be funny either when I said it.  Heck I bet if I explained that photo to people, Alps, NE 2, or some other smartass would say that I was talking too much, as it needed no explanation like one time I was explaining out the streets of Springfield being changed due to I-78.  I did not do it in one sentence as I could have, but I wanted to share my experiences of coming to the conclusion of my discovery.  However one of those said users quoted my long story to prove how smart he is, and then wrote it on how it should have been written.

It is stuff like this is why non road geeks think we are all weird like many of us complain in various posts at times on how mistreated our hobby is by other people as we all fight and argue over stupid crap!  We all have the same love of roads but many of us flame out at each other over the most dumbest stuff!

[jeffandnicole]

When the "No Turns" sign is directly in front of you, you probably have to turn.

[Kacie Jane]

Do not take it so literal!  I am not grading you like some do on here as there are two users on here, no names, but they expect all users on here to know all state line diagrams in all 50 states and know every word from the Federal MUTCD verbatim.

No I was just being figurative when I said it.   

If you don't like the way certain users treat others, the answer is not to copy the same behavior and expect us to assume you're joking.

Who says anything about disliking this user?  All I said was originally point out that the picture needed no explanation.  He got all hurt like I was calling him stupid!

I don't want to drag this on, so in not going to respond to your other paragraphs, and just try to further explain what I meant.

If you don't think the picture needs any explanation, then fine, don't explain it.  Wouldn't be the first time someone's done that on this thread, and if someone asks, we can politely explain later.

But when you say "any good road geek should know" on a board where we all come to have fun as road geeks and share our knowledge, then that's as good as calling him stupid.

"I am not grading you like some do on here"... that's actually exactly what you did with that sentence.  I'm sorry if we took it too literally, but I really don't see how else we were supposed to take it.

[roadman65]

Oh no, I did not or did not mean to sound like it.  Its okay. 

[CapeCodder]

One by me, it's been like this ever since I was a kid (over 20 years) https://www.google.com/maps/@41.674612,-70.3086437,3a,19.5y,361.7h,82.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swWsXuhEyKoWSrEkUo89wEA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[formulanone]

US Route 522, with a Keystone...


This should probably have a Florida State Road 818 sign, since that's where I'm facing, and there's no I-95 west.

[JCinSummerfield]

This should probably have a Florida State Road 818 sign, since that's where I'm facing, and there's no I-95 west.

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Probably should also have a "TO" banner for I-95.

[Kacie Jane]

You know what's extra weird?  Google Street View shows the same error, but with the shields in a different order...
https://www.google.com/maps/@26.063291,-80.1416079,3a,15y,317.58h,85.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBWmmLPYCr2s8CgqeZsK0Lg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[freebrickproductions]

I'd like to think this is AL 20 that the sign in Tuscumbia is misrepresenting. It can't be I-20 because that doesn't go into Alabama either.

It is supposed to be AL 20. Also, I think this is the only sign at this intersection with this error.

[dcbjms]

A little bit of Australia somehow ended up near a gentlemen's club in Providence, RI.
https://goo.gl/maps/6Pg5pv9nj7m

[jwolfer]

Saw this today. Had to drive out of Clay County Florida to buy beer.. Can't sell alcohol on Jesus' birthday, but seeing this made it worthwhile... I don't get how this happens.. US 17 is all N-S in Florida and I think everywhere it goes, there is no multiplex.. The road is not diagonal



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