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National Boards => General Highway Talk => Traffic Control => Topic started by: KG909 on February 16, 2015, 12:28:23 AM

Title: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: KG909 on February 16, 2015, 12:28:23 AM
Pretty self-explanatory.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.014605,-118.487162,3a,50y,182.17h,89.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAWp2z-9zD88S6EtGgBOUvQ!2e0?hl=en
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: Alps on February 16, 2015, 12:30:44 AM
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alpsroads.net%2Froads%2Fny%2Fold_3%2Fline.jpg&hash=7e146e5fe17d60ad1b92dbf3ae188058b8cebc44)
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: oscar on February 16, 2015, 12:42:36 AM
Quote from: KG909 on February 16, 2015, 12:28:23 AM
Pretty self-explanatory.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.014605,-118.487162,3a,50y,182.17h,89.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAWp2z-9zD88S6EtGgBOUvQ!2e0?hl=en

I'm missing what you're trying to highlight, so it's not "self-explanatory" enough.  Please explain.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: KG909 on February 16, 2015, 12:52:08 AM
Quote from: oscar on February 16, 2015, 12:42:36 AM
Quote from: KG909 on February 16, 2015, 12:28:23 AM
Pretty self-explanatory.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.014605,-118.487162,3a,50y,182.17h,89.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAWp2z-9zD88S6EtGgBOUvQ!2e0?hl=en

I'm missing what you're trying to highlight, so it's not "self-explanatory" enough.  Please explain.
Any sign that you can see is missing, in my link you can see the CA 1 shield should be there, but it's not.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: jeffandnicole on February 16, 2015, 01:25:45 AM
Quote from: KG909 on February 16, 2015, 12:52:08 AM
Quote from: oscar on February 16, 2015, 12:42:36 AM
Quote from: KG909 on February 16, 2015, 12:28:23 AM
Pretty self-explanatory.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.014605,-118.487162,3a,50y,182.17h,89.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAWp2z-9zD88S6EtGgBOUvQ!2e0?hl=en

I'm missing what you're trying to highlight, so it's not "self-explanatory" enough.  Please explain.
Any sign that you can see is missing, in my link you can see the CA 1 shield should be there, but it's not.

How are we supposed to know what sign is missing if the sign isn't there?
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: 1995hoo on February 16, 2015, 09:07:28 AM
I think his point is you can tell something is missing, even if you don't know what it is.

This seems like it belongs in General Highway Talk or Traffic Control.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: oscar on February 16, 2015, 09:26:56 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 16, 2015, 09:07:28 AM
I think his point is you can tell something is missing, even if you don't know what it is.

It's probably under the "Freeway Entrance" sign on the left side of the GMSV image he linked to. But I had to look three times to figure that out.

Those of us checking in, bleary-eyed, in the middle of the night could use some explanation of what we should be looking for.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: Zeffy on February 16, 2015, 10:01:07 AM
Detroit, MI: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.341721,-83.05409,3a,15.8y,346.9h,87.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1spINEqwlWOF9nxgdPn3XKXw!2e0

If I had to guess, I would say there should be a M-10 shield there.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: jeffandnicole on February 16, 2015, 10:48:31 AM
Unsigned post: http://goo.gl/maps/glLk0
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: hotdogPi on February 16, 2015, 11:10:07 AM
Somewhere on MA 62 East (either near US 1/I-95 or MA 128), there is a sign that just says "East". It is quite obvious that a "62" used to be under it.

No picture (outdated Flash Player, and therefore no Google Street View, plus I'm not exactly sure where it is.)




On MA 113, one block west of MA 28, there is no sign saying that MA 113 turns left. This might confuse people following the signs. This may fall under missing either as in "nonexistent but needed" or as in "previously existing but gone". I'm not sure which.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 16, 2015, 11:33:28 AM
Here in Huntsville, AL:
The street signs at the end of a street in my neighborhood went missing once. They were replaced shortly after.
I also remember some street signs on Blevins Gap Road were missing for a year or two before HDOT replaced them as well.
Also, around the city, you can find empty sign posts where there used to be signs, usually for road work.
Also, this street (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.578166,-86.564402&hl=en&num=1&t=h&z=18) had almost all of the signs removed from it, but the signposts and a few other signs remain.

I also have a picture from along I-459 in Birmingham, AL where the shields were missing but the direction banners still remained.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: Billy F 1988 on February 16, 2015, 11:41:50 AM
It was a couple of months ago that I was driving by the westbound entry ramp for I-90 in Frenchtown as I was going across the overpass. I quickly take a glance at the westbound trailblazer and an I-90 sign is missing. I cannot tell if it had been stolen, or if something happened with the trailblazer assembly.

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.018124,-114.229533,3a,15y,177.68h,88.24t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sNrynLiHrK-XLuDk4JxdGYA!2e0 (https://www.google.com/maps/@47.018124,-114.229533,3a,15y,177.68h,88.24t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sNrynLiHrK-XLuDk4JxdGYA!2e0) <-- GMaps reference to the missing I-90 shield.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: PHLBOS on February 16, 2015, 12:28:14 PM
Quote from: 1 on February 16, 2015, 11:10:07 AM
Somewhere on MA 62 East (either near US 1/I-95 or MA 128), there is a sign that just says "East". It is quite obvious that a "62" used to be under it.
I just checked both of the above-locations and noticed that there's no EAST 62 reassurance marker east of 128 and there are two eastbound reassurance markers at US 1 & I-95.

This one (http://goo.gl/maps/pQv2Z) just east of US 1 and the I-95 South on-ramp has an arial font.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: freebrickproductions on February 16, 2015, 12:58:16 PM
I just now remembered that there is/was a missing I-565 shield in downtown Huntsville.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: Eth on February 16, 2015, 02:41:08 PM
Quote from: 1 on February 16, 2015, 11:10:07 AM
On MA 113, one block west of MA 28, there is no sign saying that MA 113 turns left. This might confuse people following the signs. This may fall under missing either as in "nonexistent but needed" or as in "previously existing but gone". I'm not sure which.

Following GA 155 southbound into Decatur requires a left turn, but you wouldn't know it by signage (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.77817,-84.296466,3a,75y,198.35h,87.26t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sF3tJ6406OowsepzNFAs3Eg!2e0) and would realize something was amiss when the street ends a block later without any guidance. The sign assembly indicating this movement has been missing for about three years (you can see it in the August 2011 GSV image). That actually tripped me up when I was trying to clinch 155 back in 2012.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: SignGeek101 on February 19, 2015, 10:31:55 PM
http://goo.gl/maps/KfRaS

Junction QC 325
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: Brian556 on February 20, 2015, 01:25:12 AM
Where I live, there is almost no sign theft anymore. It was very common in the 90's. I'm wondering if this is due to changing fads, or the availability of signs for purchase online.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: roadman on February 20, 2015, 01:56:53 PM
Quote from: Brian556 on February 20, 2015, 01:25:12 AM
Where I live, there is almost no sign theft anymore. It was very common in the 90's. I'm wondering if this is due to changing fads, or the availability of signs for purchase online.
Could also be the increased use of vandal-proof hardware to attach signs to posts.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: iBallasticwolf2 on March 29, 2015, 10:51:15 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.927525,-84.544685,3a,17.2y,114.35h,88.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sXlanoJT2s0gKtrcxlttMmQ!2e0?hl=en

Just in case you don't realize, there should be a KY-536 bubble shield where the blank spot is
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: Mergingtraffic on April 03, 2015, 06:54:25 PM
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7591/16582643319_49fc00fa1f.jpg)

Below the gorgeous shield used to be a CT Turnpike shield...long gone.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: KG909 on April 18, 2015, 03:30:26 PM
The "WEST" sign under the I-10 shield is missing.
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.tapatalk-cdn.com%2F15%2F04%2F18%2F7881d6983d14c11efbdc9a5d9e4a719c.jpg&hash=4921c7412aebf6b110f4e2eced6c43def376f405)
Okay, I think it got stolen because last Saturday me and some friends were walking along when I noticed the sign was loose. I actually pulled it out and held it. Though we did think of taking it, we just decided to leave it there, but I left it at a 45° angle, which I think someone else saw and took it.
Title: Re: Stolen / Missing Signs
Post by: Billy F 1988 on April 30, 2015, 12:43:02 AM
MDT has yet to bring a fresh I-90 shield out to Exit 89 on the westbound entry ramp in Frenchtown, Montana. Some drunk dumb nut decided to steal it I guess and it's been like this since last winter I think.