To sign, or not to sign?

[mapman1071]

Probably the best approach to take would be for a county to select a small subset of the most important county roads for the purpose of actually getting somewhere (i.e. not just busy streets, but ones that would actually be used by someone on a medium-length trip, or connectors between more major routes), and sign those as county routes. Giving the full shield treatment to every little county-maintained dead-end street with 3 houses on it is just a waste of money.

Nassau County in New York does this on paper, in that only the major roads covering long distances are assigned county route numbers.  Most county roads are unnumbered.  However, Nassau does not post any county route signs, so it's just on paper.  I wish that they would, though.

county route signs were posted up to the early 70's (Black on Orange Square/Rectangle)
but when a standardized sign (yellow-on-blue pentagon) was required it would have cost the county too much money to replace all the signs
they removed the non standard signs, but from time to time an old sign will be seen posted after landscape or trees are trimed or removed.