The Worst of Road Signs

[OracleUsr]

Especially since there's a town not far away on the Delmarva Peninsula called "Onancock"

[NE2]

Especially since there's a town not far away on the Delmarva Peninsula called "Onancock"

Onancock Creek must be swarming with spilled seed.

[formulanone]

Especially since there's a town not far away on the Delmarva Peninsula called "Onancock"

Onancock Creek must be swarming with spilled seed.

Thank goodness I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that, or a new laptop would be needed. 

[Android]

I spotted a sign in Cheyenne, WY today that made me cringe and had to stop and take a photo of it.  It reminded me of the quoted image below, which is located about 30 miles south, (in Colorado).  I was divided as to whether to post this in the "Street Blade Signs Changing" thread or here.  But I decided it was pretty hideous so it's here. 

And here's kind of a hideous mismatched-lettering example that I wanted to post earlier but couldn't find it til now:

[Pete from Boston]

This is of course a topic best served by pictures, and I will get one next week, but for anyone who has seen it it is hard to beat the awfulness of the blue "attractions" sign on the Connecticut Turnpike in Stamford for Chelsea Piers of Connecticut. I think they just appeared in the past week, but I may simply have just now noticed them. They look like someone painted a couple of 4 x 8 sheets of plywood blue in their garage and applied white stick-on letters. It makes me never want to go to the Chelsea Piers of Connecticut, though in fairness, I never wanted to go to begin with.

[national highway 1]

[hbelkins]

That's because this erroneous sign was originally installed:



The lane is not an exit-only lane.

For awhile the sign looked like this:

[Compulov]

For awhile the sign looked like this:

What's wrong with that, anyway (other than the mounting rails sticking out)? Is it required that the upcoming exit lane be signed as exit only? Seems like completely overkill when just saying 1/2 mile would be sufficient.

[thenetwork]

For awhile the sign looked like this:

What's wrong with that, anyway (other than the mounting rails sticking out)? Is it required that the upcoming exit lane be signed as exit only? Seems like completely overkill when just saying 1/2 mile would be sufficient.

I've seen several BGSs in Ohio that would put on the bottom line:

1/2 <Pull through arrow> MILE

if it wasn't the dedicated exit lane yet, then once the Exit Only Lane appears then you do a Yellow-tabbed EXIT <Pull through arrow> ONLY at the bottom of the sign.

[Scott5114]

Yeah, that exit only panel should have really been replaced with just a green panel with a down arrow. What they have now is just overthinking it, and coming up with a worse solution as a result.

[jeffandnicole]

What needed to be done was nothing. After the exit only plate was removed, it looked like every other proper 1/2 mile ahead sign.

[JMoses24]

That's on 64 as you go north of Winchester, yeah? If that has been there for several years, I'm not sure how I've missed it on past trips to Norfolk/Virginia Beach.

[Brian556]

"CORINTH PRKWY"...Don't think I've ever seen it abbreviated this way before.

[Kacie Jane]

What needed to be done was nothing. After the exit only plate was removed, it looked like every other proper 1/2 mile ahead sign.

My guess is that nothing wasn't an option because of the way the sign is mounted.  Without that bottom strip, it's no longer centered on the cantilever, so it's too top heavy and wind becomes a concern.  They could have just taken it down and recentered it, but I'm guessing it was easier/cheaper to retrofit it and restore its original size.

[Sanctimoniously]

More #alandot test signage...

[silverback1065]

More #alandot test signage...

what does the 609 sign mean?

[NE2]

(secondary) State Route 609.

[hbelkins]

Thank you, Indiana, for some fugly US shields. Hoosier Daddy, indeed.


IMG_2634 by hbelkins, on Flickr


IMG_2660 by hbelkins, on Flickr

Indiana's neighbor to the west has some fugly shields, as well.


IMG_2577 by hbelkins, on Flickr

Oh(io), my eyes! They hurt!!!


IMG_2839 by hbelkins, on Flickr


IMG_2829 by hbelkins, on Flickr

[Scott5114]

"CORINTH PRKWY"...Don't think I've ever seen it abbreviated this way before.

There's a sign for "ED NOBLE PRKWY" in Norman, OK.

[vtk]

There are one or two signs in Grove City, OH which identify London — Groveport Road (OH 665) as "LONDON-GRVPT RD".  Other abbreviations in use within Grove City are "SR 665" and "London-Groveport Rd".

[kphoger]

"SR 665" and "London-Groveport Rd"

What's wrong with those two?

[vtk]

Not much.  "SR 665" is deficient because the road has a proper, commonly-used name, but really I only mentioned those to show a baseline against which to compare the weird one.

[Stratuscaster]

Thank you, Indiana, for some fugly US shields. Hoosier Daddy, indeed.

Illinois used to have a lot more of those - US 20 in Kane County and US 34 in DuPage County, among others.

[vtk]

That shape is quite common in a swath of Ohio north of Springfield, too.

[6a]

There are one or two signs in Grove City, OH which identify London — Groveport Road (OH 665) as "LONDON-GRVPT RD".  Other abbreviations in use within Grove City are "SR 665" and "London-Groveport Rd".

The sign at the intersection of Parsons and 317 says "London-Grovport" as well.