Unique, Odd, or Interesting Signs aka The good, the bad, and the ugly

[Hunty2022]

Key West, FL on a major budget, located in "Broadway on the Beach" in Myrtle Beach, SC:



Taken about 2 minutes ago.

[wanderer2575]

^  My theory is that, as the signs get stolen, they get replaced with progressively uglier ones in hopes of reaching the point where they're left alone.  Same as the "M-22 effect" in Michigan.

[D-Dey65]

Again with the Japanese warning road signs;

Now it's obvious that the sign on the bottom is a falling rocks warning sign, but am I right to assume the one on the top is an avalanche warning sign?

[ClassicHasClass]

Strong icy winds? Frostbite kamikaze?

(Kidding aside: なだれ indeed means avalanche and 注意 means caution.)

[D-Dey65]

Yeah, that's what I thought. Nobody added that category to the image in Wikimedia commons until I did early this morning.

[roadman65]

Both routes are concurrent. Yet only one route per direction.

[Scott5114]

Fa la la la la, la la la la!

[Scott5114]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53768629272_06cc7b00db_k.jpg
The sign inventory method as seen in a small place card beneath the assembly.

That's not a sign inventory method, that's a reference marker. (County #58, control section #12). Sometimes there's a third line with the mileage on it (I'm guessing it was omitted here because it's at 0.00 or close to it).

[Rothman]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53768629272_06cc7b00db_k.jpg
The sign inventory method as seen in a small place card beneath the assembly.

That's not a sign inventory method, that's a reference marker.

That's no moon...

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9zgZiVht14SQizFy8
The left turn panel for SB Niagara Falls Blvd being blank is odd here on WB Sheridan Drive at Niagara Falls Blvd in Buffalo.

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/T2p8qb9NaFnrCR5X6
The arrows used here have a lot to be desired.

[wanderer2575]

Less-than-great arrow design, round 2 (the sign on the left):

[ClassicHasClass]

"Oh, don't worry, boss. We marked the exit so they won't miss it."
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fH7rR6ZEbmNHyZ779

[Amaury]

If you look at earlier captures, it's just that the bottom screw fell out.

[plain]

"Oh, don't worry, boss. We marked the exit so they won't miss it."
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fH7rR6ZEbmNHyZ779

If you look at earlier captures, it's just that the bottom screw fell out.

The missing screw caused the number to disappear and the arrow to shrink and point downward?

[Amaury]

It is a different sign.

Look closely, though, especially from the back, and you can see the hole where the screw used to be.

[vdeane]

It is a different sign.

Look closely, though, especially from the back, and you can see the hole where the screw used to be.

That screw still would not fix 95% of the issues with that sign.

[roadman65]

Courtesy AA Roads.

Two exits here for the same road. 

Also to note the left exit is numbered 2B while the right exit is numbered 2C.

[Mapmikey]

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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53768629272_06cc7b00db_k.jpg
The sign inventory method as seen in a small place card beneath the assembly.

That's not a sign inventory method, that's a reference marker. (County #58, control section #12). Sometimes there's a third line with the mileage on it (I'm guessing it was omitted here because it's at 0.00 or close to it).

This may be a reference marker system separate from the section markers with the mileages given...

US 60 at OK 10 N - 58-08
US 60 at OK 10 S - 58-09 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/EYSRSdpQvJ7LPJya8
OK 10 S next county road, 58-20-10.4 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/tePnT2svPuSmKfWM8
OK 10 N next county road, 58-24-1.7 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/X8B5jiTFfZy7SBEh8
US 60 E next county road, 58-10-17.0 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/WFposGrv7tt6Ly1p6
US 60 W next county road, 58-10-12.8

So the section numbers on US 60 and OK 10 are unrelated to the markers posted at their intersections.

meanwhile, other primary route junctions in county 58:
US 59-69 split - 58-03 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/E5kneLRfAeMisUnQ9
OK 10 at OK 10C - 58-06 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/xrFpTwFwqQRhwsrQ7
note section 58-06-1.07 is at the southwest corner of the county on US 60 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/bwFjnnWSj81uYmRR7
US 60 at OK 137 - 58-07 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/75z7mz6Wd86UyQvKA
US 59/69 at OK 25 - 58-80 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tud3b4X4cZV6oFtw5

[Rothman]

Courtesy AA Roads.

Two exits here for the same road. 

Also to note the left exit is numbered 2B while the right exit is numbered 2C.

More arrows than lanes.

[Scott5114]

This may be a reference marker system separate from the section markers with the mileages given...

No, the control section system in Oklahoma is just that fucked up. (This is the 2012 map, however, I didn't notice any relevant changes between it and the 2018 version that is available for download on the ODOT website.)


Something wacky is indeed going on with some of these control sections; as you can see a number of these control section numbers don't exist at all, and if they ever did, it was before 1978, as they don't exist on that control section map either. (The 1978 book has a foreword saying that "control section numbers with alphabetical suffixes are no longer in use to identify existing highways. All such numbers have been revised and have a new number assigned", so it's possible that that somehow affected these particular sections...or maybe ODOT just made the markers incorrectly.  I'm not falling down that particular rabbit hole, though, because usually when you start doing that in Oklahoma you start finding stupider and stupider reasons for things to be the way that they are, until you need to lie down for a while.

I can, however, state that the markers in county 44 (McClain County) are, as far as I am aware, entirely compliant with the maps, as the markers there are how I discovered the correlation between the numbers and the markers to begin with. And, in fact, the 1978 map book depicts one of the three-line reference markers on the cover, solidifying the association between the control section numbers and the reference markers.

[snowc]

On US 30 EB approaching PA 113 in Downingtown (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098226846443&set=a.10220098304088374)



On PA 100 SB approaching Pottstown Pike (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098215766166&set=a.10220098304088374)



On PA 3 EB at US 202 NB/US 322 WB in West Chester (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098236926695&set=a.10220098304088374)



On I-76 WB .3 miles east of Montgomery Dr/MLK Dr (Exit 341) in Philadelphia (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098264087374&set=a.10220098304088374)



Signage at the Chick-Fil-A and Wawa by the US 202/Henderson Rd intersection in King of Prussia (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098276927695&set=a.10220098304088374)







On Henderson Rd at Gulph Rd/I-76 in King of Prussia (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098195485659&set=a.10220098304088374)



On I-76 WB approaching US 202 (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098280927795&set=a.10220098304088374)



On the I-76 WB ramp as it enters the PA Turnpike (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098203205852&set=a.10220098304088374)



On I-76 WB approaching PA 100 (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098195445658&set=a.10220098304088374)



Further west on I-76 (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220098290648038&set=a.10220098304088374)



This is at a building in Harrisburg, PA.  (https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10220135602700816&set=a.10219841211181212)



On VA 127 WB west of US 522 (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220135471577538&set=a.10220135586020399)



On I-68 WB/US 40 WB .5 miles east of Seton Dr (Exit 41) (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220135495778143&set=a.10220135586020399)



On MD 36 SB at MD 135/WV 46 in Westernport, MD.  (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220135513778593&set=a.10220135586020399)





Near a Pedestrian Crossing on US 219 NB on the north side of Oakland, MD. (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220135532339057&set=a.10220135586020399)



Signage to avoid US 30 on US 219 NB approaching the connector to PA 601, I-70, I-76, and PA 985 (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220135676822669&set=a.10220135794465610)









On US 219 NB approaching Johnstown and PA 56 (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220135687222929&set=a.10220135794465610)



On PA 36 SB leaving Patton (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220135725063875&set=a.10220135794465610)



On US 22 EB at US 220 BUS (Altoona) SB in Duncansville (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220135744344357&set=a.10220135794465610)

The No Direct Return sign is also on 81 in Hagerstown

[snowc]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZAjhVz7a5EP6Bvdk8
Truck Speed limit before the car speed limit. Usually trucks are on bottom of normal speed.  Plus the US 22 shield is odd.

We have one down our street

[snowc]

Slow Children Crossing Sign looks kinda outdated

Non MUTCD style Stop Ahead sign.

[roadman65]

2 miles from 2 places on same freeway in Birmingham, AL.