Normally covered/dark/blank signs

[vdeane]

Until recently this latter sign was lit up continuously during the current construction of the wildlife crossing overpass, but whenever I tuned into that station, I just got "This is a Caltrans test message" repeated.  Likely the radio message was only activated when lanes (or the entire freeway) were closed, but no one thought to change this sign's status.

Sounds like a good way to get people to ignore the sign.  Hasn't CalTrans heard of the boy who cried wolf?

[CoreySamson]

I found an interesting dark electronic sign in Claremore, OK today here...



Seems like it should light up whenever a train is crossing the parallel tracks, similar to the Houston example I posted earlier in the thread. But this one looks like it has been here a lot longer than that Houston one (at least since 2008, according to GSV).

[kphoger]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bX1d1SggEvURj6to6

On the outside, it's a white triangle that says KEEP KANSAS CLEAN.

On the inside, it's a yellow warning sign diamond that says LITTER CREW WORKING.

I know this, because it came unlatched and has been dangling open for about a week.  And I know it wasn't just left open by an earlier-working litter crew, because the highway is no more litter-free now than it used to be.

[Scott5114]

I know this, because it came unlatched and has been dangling open for about a week.  And I know it wasn't just left open by an earlier-working litter crew, because the highway is no more litter-free now than it used to be.

Obviously a litter crew is a crew that litters.

[kphoger]

I know this, because it came unlatched and has been dangling open for about a week.  And I know it wasn't just left open by an earlier-working litter crew, because the highway is no more litter-free now than it used to be.

Obviously a litter crew is a crew that litters.

When it's that much fun, can you really call it 'work'?

[thenetwork]

There's a blank BGS on southbound I-405 in West LA that originally referred to an exit that's been closed for something like 40 years.  I don't recall what the exit was called, but it was one of those "hole in the fence" set of off/on ramps that just dumped you into a residential area (a large part of the reason it was closed).  https://maps.app.goo.gl/XHLHsizNfu4Qm6Xh8

There used to be a blank sign on the NB 405 in the same area which was on a post in the center median.

Would they have both referred to the same exit at one pointm

[DTComposer]

There's a blank BGS on southbound I-405 in West LA that originally referred to an exit that's been closed for something like 40 years.  I don't recall what the exit was called, but it was one of those "hole in the fence" set of off/on ramps that just dumped you into a residential area (a large part of the reason it was closed).  https://maps.app.goo.gl/XHLHsizNfu4Qm6Xh8

There used to be a blank sign on the NB 405 in the same area which was on a post in the center median.

Would they have both referred to the same exit at one pointm

The southbound I-405 sign was for the Waterford Avenue exit, just north of the VA hospital. It was closed somewhere around 2000 (it was still there when I was commuting from North Hollywood to Westwood 1997-2000).

The northbound sign may have been for the Montana Avenue exit, which is about the same location. That exit was lost in one of the last I-405 widenings.