Erroneous road signs

[theline]

No danger that it was me if that was a Caddy. 

I was fearing ice on the return trip on Monday, but didn't see any despite the frigid temps until I got to Indiana. The Hoosier State was a mess.

[PHLBOS]

formulanone, were you following me? I just drove through there on Saturday on my way to Mobile, and that looks kinda like the Chevy Impala I was driving.

It's a Cadillac CTS coupe that served as the "radar bait" until jumping off at Birmingham.

FYI theline, no Chevy Impala to date ever featured single, long, vertical tail-lights and last Impala coupe was the '81 model. 

[Alex]

South of the I-65 and AL 69 overlap, there must have been some confusion...



Must be a rather new sign; StreetView is from September 2013, and it has the right shield (and no Clearview).

And yet another sign where the letter height in Clearview must be Taller than needed. Since they added Dodge City to that exit, they must have replaced all the other signs, including the barely old Clearview sign at one half mile out:

[mass_citizen]

https://twitter.com/Toucherandrich/status/421676454171381760/photo/1

if OLNY they knew how to spell!

[vtk]

Just found this on Street View...

Southwestbound on Market St in Washington CH, Ohio:
[East]
[US 62]
[OH 3]

Should be:
[West]
[US 62]
[South]
[OH 3]
[OH 38]

https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=39.543094,-83.431431&spn=0.004459,0.00707&t=m&z=17&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=39.543164,-83.43133&panoid=AAtHPMmjnWKzljhlc2NuWw&cbp=12,241.81,,1,3.35

[hotdogPi]

Just found this on Street View...

Southwestbound on Market St in Washington CH, Ohio:
[East]
[US 62]
[OH 3]

Should be:
[West]
[US 62]
[South]
[OH 3]
[OH 38]

https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=39.543094,-83.431431&spn=0.004459,0.00707&t=m&z=17&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=39.543164,-83.43133&panoid=AAtHPMmjnWKzljhlc2NuWw&cbp=12,241.81,,1,3.35

Who thought it was EAST? It's more west than east!

[PurdueBill]

Who thought it was EAST? It's more west than east!

US 62 in Ohio can't decide whether it is North-South or East-West.  It used to be N-East/S-West in places but that is long gone now.  Panning around and going down the street you can find another error with OH 3 posted as East-West along with 62, but at least 62's directions are correct.

[hotdogPi]

It's the fact that they signed it 180° opposite. If it was a 90˚ mistake, it would not have been as much of an error.

[vtk]

Yes, if it were:
[South]
[US 62]
[OH 3]
[OH 38]

I would deem that as perfectly acceptable.  (I firmly believe US 62 should be signed N—S in Ohio; particularly south of Columbus, but might as well do the whole thing since PA and NY also sign it N—S.)  But if you're going technically west on one route and south on two others, putting an EAST banner over two of the routes and forgetting the third is just plain wrong.

[PurdueBill]

Not disagreeing that EAST is wrong--just find it amusing that not only can't they decide on N-S or E-W for it, but they manage to get it wrong with 50-50 odds of randomly pulling a correct direction out of four.  EAST with OH 3 is even more unforgivable. 

[roadman65]

Here is one that lacks good placement of an exit number tab that could make it look like LA 1 South has no official exit number.

[PHLBOS]

Here is one that lacks good placement of an exit number tab that could make it look like LA 1 South has no official exit number.

Those BGS' right there are probably the most blatant examples of where not to use the Clearview font (route numbers, all-CAPs & dark-on-light background).  Something tells me that that exit tab (the only thing in Highway Gothic) was placed later on.  Is that true?

[NE2]

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=25.822704,-80.279653&spn=0.015664,0.028346&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=25.822691,-80.279871&panoid=h4kz2EjwMxBXQoKlg0B8zA&cbp=12,277.44,,0,9.39
You can't turn left on US 27, dunce. (Though it could be referring to continuing straight at a 45 degree angle to the left and looping back around, but I don't see any signage for that.)

[Zeffy]

Here is one that lacks good placement of an exit number tab that could make it look like LA 1 South has no official exit number.

Obligatory redesign:



A few notes:

* I did not find a BGS-suitable Louisiana route shield anywhere on Wikipedia. Therefore, I used the standalone marker and expanded it's width slightly. I am well aware that this is probably not a good method at all (actually, it isn't), so if anyone would like to donate a Louisiana shield for guide sign use, that would be great.

* I renumbered the exits to 153A-B because I feel that exits that reference the same route should be considered the same - but differentiated with A or B (exceptions apply to this rule). I do not know anything about this area of the United States to know where this was taken, therefore I renumbered the exits for my redesign.

* I opted to keep the Clearview legend as that is what Clearview may be used for, but reverted everything else back into it's Highway Gothic equivalent because the other uses were incorrect (especially the shield digits and the 'EXIT ONLY' text).

[PHLBOS]

Obligatory redesign:

Nice redesign; but I would have placed the exit tabs to the top-right of each message.

[1995hoo]

I was chagrined when I saw this earlier this afternoon, as I've walked past it hundreds of times (it's in front of the Fairfax County courthouse) and I'd never noticed the error before. I guess that's just proof how you often ignore signs in familiar places.

[sammi]

They're supposed to be state routes, right? Because US 23 and 36 are nowhere close.

[Zeffy]

Nice redesign; but I would have placed the exit tabs to the top-right of each message.

Normally I would've as well. But, when I was designing the sign, I thought it looked better if they were both aligned in the center rather than the right edge. However, I'll let you be the judge of that:

[bassoon1986]

Nice redesign; but I would have placed the exit tabs to the top-right of each message.

Normally I would've as well. But, when I was designing the sign, I thought it looked better if they were both aligned in the center rather than the right edge. However, I'll let you be the judge of that:

And what's funny is this is generally how the sign looked before it was redone. Except without Clearview, and it had one exit number, 153. It was one sign with a line separating the cities and directions like you've done.

[1995hoo]

They're supposed to be state routes, right? Because US 23 and 36 are nowhere close.

Correct, Virginia state primary routes.

[formulanone]

GA 135 signed as non-existent US 135 (I counted three of them along the route)...



Edited link.

[JoePCool14]

GA 135 signed as non-existent US 135 (I counted three of them along the route)...

Not to mention, those are pretty ugly shields.

[formulanone]

Georgia seems to commonly use 2dus shields for 3dus, but then shrinks them down a further 10% and keeps the bottoms extra pointy for no reason at all.

[hbelkins]

Georgia has a lot of different shield shapes for both state and US routes. I should really post some of my limited number of Georgia photos in that "differences in US route markers" thread.

[Eth]

That particular state shield design is the one that was most commonly used for signs erected in roughly the 2000-2008 time period. It is by far my least favorite of the common designs.

I don't really have a huge issue with those US shields, except that I'd probably reduce the inter-digit spacing a bit (and, of course, swap out the US 135 for a GA 135).