Erroneous road signs

[WillWeaverRVA]

Saw this about 10 days ago...wondering how this happened...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TdGjkyLsxUm59iR76

That's even worse than the US 40 shield on US 58 in Virginia Beach (which has been corrected according to a contact).

[TheCatalyst31]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/iUip4bRooFisTDaDA
Should be a Primary Blue shield as circle shields on Puerto Rico are for municipal highways.  Highway 26 in San Juan is a primary highway and gets the white on blue shield.

What's with the animal shields?

Apparently they used to be tourist routes, but most of the signage is long gone outside of that area.

[74/171FAN]

On US 41 SB/US 70S EB just south of TN 255 (and you see what mapmikey suggested a fictional US 58 extension to get rid of US 70S)  (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221158411150388&set=a.10221158525753253)


 

[mglass87]

So, a shield for US 1 used to be part of this assembly, and instead of replacing it after it was knocked over, the city did this:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/s4Y6ZH36VRdhtgTE9

[1995hoo]

https://x.com/MainStPreppers/status/1843281871234646090

[pderocco]

https://x.com/MainStPreppers/status/1843281871234646090

I could have imagined decades ago that that was somebody's idea of how to represent a stop sign in lights (as we now do with a flashing red light), sort of the way Massachusetts used to use solid red and yellow as a pedestrian walk signal. There were a lot more signaling eccentricities in those days. But the NO TURN ON RED sign kind of rules that out.

[TBKS1]

Not a sign error, but rather just an old sign that needs to be replaced. This is on AR 14 in Poinsett County east of Harrisburg, US 63 doesn't run here anymore and has since been replaced by I-555.



As a bonus, one of the screws fell out of the arrow direction sign underneath the AR 373 shield, flipping it over. AR 373 is on the right, not the left.

[pderocco]

Not a sign error, but rather just an old sign that needs to be replaced. This is on AR 14 in Poinsett County east of Harrisburg, US 63 doesn't run here anymore and has since been replaced by I-555.

You take the low road, and I'll take the high road.

[Big John]

You take the low road, and I'll take the high road.

There is a highway, but not a lowway.

[74/171FAN]

On US 70S WB at TN 380, which is not US 70S BUS in McMinnville, TN. (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221182875881991&set=a.10221182971244375)

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/6iiip15AqHigBS67A
The Keep Right is erroneous. Turning right here will not lead you on to US 206 Bypass NB.  The keep right arrow should point straight.

[Big John]

^^ and you are not allowed to go left of the sign - only possible if you drive on the grass.

[74/171FAN]

So I think the US 220 BUS NB shield here is actually erroneous since it ends at I-581 (Exit 5) and we are north of there at this point. (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221203482397141&set=a.10221203538598546)

[roadfro]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/6iiip15AqHigBS67A
The Keep Right is erroneous. Turning right here will not lead you on to US 206 Bypass NB.  The keep right arrow should point straight.

The Keep Right is erroneous because of its use. That sign is only supposed to be used on a median island or similar obstruction, where traffic is to pass to the right of the sign.

[mglass87]

"South Park" is supposed to be Southpark here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/GTy9jW5wNnFne7JD8

[roadman65]

The control city for I-610 West of Pearland should be for SH 35 SB here as that is the route serving that particular city.

Unlesss maybe  TexDOT is directing motorists to use IH 610 and SH 288 into that city, there are no follow ups on I-610.  The controls for SH 288 are Freeport and Jackson, so that rules out that scene, but construction in 2022 closed flyovers to SH 288 from I-610 WB that year and perhaps supplemental signs were there that got removed.

However, I always thought TexDOT didn't use control cities, anyway, on interstate beltways. Yet on I-45 in South Houston, control cities are used here.

[TBKS1]

Spelling error in Alma, AR right off I-40. Took this a couple of days ago.

[74/171FAN]

On VA 106 SB in Prince George, VA, due to a SR 630 detour for roundabout construction (https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10221808365638844&set=a.10221808792529516)

[TBKS1]

Might be a first on the thread, but I encountered a very bizarre signage error on AR 207 in Ouachita, AR (Dallas County) at the intersection of AR 7. It's a bit complicated to explain through photos alone, so I recorded a short video of it.

[pderocco]

Might be a first on the thread, but I encountered a very bizarre signage error on AR 207 in Ouachita, AR (Dallas County) at the intersection of AR 7. It's a bit complicated to explain through photos alone, so I recorded a short video of it.

GSV from 2014 doesn't show the 7 sign, just the green sign under it. There were probably supposed to put it up on a different sign along 7, but workers who put up road signs are often idiots.

[formulanone]

Might be a first on the thread, but I encountered a very bizarre signage error on AR 207 in Ouachita, AR (Dallas County) at the intersection of AR 7. It's a bit complicated to explain through photos alone, so I recorded a short video of it.

Ah, a video that gets right to the point.

[D-Dey65]

See this sign for the northbound Santee Rest Area on the SC 6 Bridge over I-95? I just noticed that it almost completely covers up a low clearance sign.

Neither of these signs are likely to be wrong, but one covers up the other, hence the error.

[Mapmikey]

Might be a first on the thread, but I encountered a very bizarre signage error on AR 207 in Ouachita, AR (Dallas County) at the intersection of AR 7. It's a bit complicated to explain through photos alone, so I recorded a short video of it.

GSV from 2014 doesn't show the 7 sign, just the green sign under it. There were probably supposed to put it up on a different sign along 7, but workers who put up road signs are often idiots.

3 errors just like this I have seen in person off the top of my head:

This is NC 731 at US 220 ALT, but for a couple years there was a NC 73 shield instead:

Dec 2012

This is NC 94 turning right at US 264.  But 15 years ago there was a NC 45 shield instead. The picture I took didn't turn out but March 2009 GMSV captured it:


When I was in Miami in 2014 I spotted US 41 posted on US 1 south leaving US 41:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1VYNcShZGBdpkBbE6

[TBKS1]

Might be a first on the thread, but I encountered a very bizarre signage error on AR 207 in Ouachita, AR (Dallas County) at the intersection of AR 7. It's a bit complicated to explain through photos alone, so I recorded a short video of it.

Ah, a video that gets right to the point.

In reality I could have taken several photos of this and try to explain it that way, but the most recent GSV imagery of this intersection is over 10 years old, and this was a relatively new sign installation anyways. It's much easier to show this error in a video.

[mrsman]

Might be a first on the thread, but I encountered a very bizarre signage error on AR 207 in Ouachita, AR (Dallas County) at the intersection of AR 7. It's a bit complicated to explain through photos alone, so I recorded a short video of it.

Ah, a video that gets right to the point.

In reality I could have taken several photos of this and try to explain it that way, but the most recent GSV imagery of this intersection is over 10 years old, and this was a relatively new sign installation anyways. It's much easier to show this error in a video.

I think it is a far worse error to mislabel a highway by a number of what that highway intersects with, near that intersection, than to put in some other number.

So if one were traveling on AR-7, likely they would not turn here.  But if they did, this reassurance would confuse them a hell of a lot more than simply misnumbering the highway like AR-27 or AR-702.