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

[Bobby5280]

The H.E. Bailey Spur needs to be completed that last 6 miles to I-35. They just need to build new frontage roads and get it done. There is just enough ROW between the utility easements to build it.

[Scott5114]

The program still exists in various parts of the U.S., but yeah, a lot of businesses were like, "That's a great idea!...Oh wait, you mean we have to pick up litter more than once?"

Most of the Adopt-A-Highway sections around here are non-profit organizations, like Boy Scout troops, churches, and fraternities/sororities.

I remember when I was in Boy Scouts, we had a lock-in at the church once where we got to stay up all night playing video games, drinking soda, and eating pizza...then at daybreak we had to go out and pick up litter...yeah........

On the topic of Adopt-A-Road, imagine if AARoads adopted a road. Where would we go?

We would adopt the H.E. Bailey Turnpike Spur to Norman, OK.

As someone who used to have that on my commute...why? I don't remember it having a whole lot of trash along it. The 80 MPH speed limit is pretty cool, though.

[hbelkins]

On the topic of Adopt-A-Road, imagine if AARoads adopted a road. Where would we go?

Part of the AA Highway in Kentucky, of course.

[formulanone]

The program still exists in various parts of the U.S., but yeah, a lot of businesses were like, "That's a great idea!...Oh wait, you mean we have to pick up litter more than once?"

Most of the Adopt-A-Highway sections around here are non-profit organizations, like Boy Scout troops, churches, and fraternities/sororities.

I remember when I was in Boy Scouts, we had a lock-in at the church once where we got to stay up all night playing video games, drinking soda, and eating pizza...then at daybreak we had to go out and pick up litter...yeah........

In some states, you sponsor the route so inmates can literally do the dirty work for you.

It's probably a different story in smaller towns; for example, the local church cleans up their half-mile of roadway near my house but asks for volunteers.

[LilianaUwU]

A new building forces a stop sign to be on the far side of an intersection, at least until it gets hooked up to the building itself:

Stop sign on the far end of the intersection by Liliana Vess, on Flickr

[LilianaUwU]

The program still exists in various parts of the U.S., but yeah, a lot of businesses were like, "That's a great idea!...Oh wait, you mean we have to pick up litter more than once?"

Most of the Adopt-A-Highway sections around here are non-profit organizations, like Boy Scout troops, churches, and fraternities/sororities.

I remember when I was in Boy Scouts, we had a lock-in at the church once where we got to stay up all night playing video games, drinking soda, and eating pizza...then at daybreak we had to go out and pick up litter...yeah........

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that ~200 km stretch of ON 401 is cleaned up by such non-profit associations.

[thenetwork]

I just passed a sign in Aztec, NM (SR- 516)that only says:  DO NOT THROW TRASH


I guess it is okay to just gently drop it on the ground next to you....

[kphoger]

I just passed a sign in Aztec, NM (SR- 516)that only says:  DO NOT THROW TRASH

I guess it is okay to just gently drop it on the ground next to you....

This is a common sign in Mexico, although it's of the sort whose use is now deprecated.



(The first time we drove to Mexico, my wife thought she kept seeing signs that meant "NO TIRE TRASH" in English.)

[ClassicHasClass]

Clearly that sign has made a difference. 

[CoreySamson]

I thought this was strange wording for a construction sign...


Riverside Dr. @ S John Williams Way, Tulsa, OK

[Amaury]

A sign for Montana Secondary Highway 375 at a junction with Montana Highway 2, but from the little research I've done, there is no such highway. Noticed it when I was coming back from my drive to Whitehall back on September 27.

https://goo.gl/maps/WVA3oWnuWgTa5KAX9

https://goo.gl/maps/w7YtpbEW4knoANrX8

[FrCorySticha]

A sign for Montana Secondary Highway 375 at a junction with Montana Highway 2, but from the little research I've done, there is no such highway. Noticed it when I was coming back from my drive to Whitehall back on September 27.

Wiki states that Continental Drive was Secondary 375 until 1993. Those signs are clearly newer than that, and apparently were posted by MDT based off the existence of the decal on the back. I don't think MDT used decals like that in 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_secondary_highways_in_Montana#Sec0375

[thenetwork]

I have been through Craig, CO well over a dozen times. But I just happened to look up at the right time today for this gem...

This one is vintage, likely over 30 years old.  I believe the reason this one still stands is because the trees on either side of the pole has turned it into a hidden, forgotten assembly:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uQRj4jEcbMVbT2DV6

 

[US 89]

I have been through Craig, CO well over a dozen times. But I just happened to look up at the right time today for this gem...

This one is vintage, likely over 30 years old.  I believe the reason this one still stands is because the trees on either side of the pole has turned it into a hidden, forgotten assembly:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uQRj4jEcbMVbT2DV6

Whoa, how have I never seen that? I have also been through Craig, westbound by that sign, probably a dozen times. Makes me wonder what else I've missed right under my nose.

[thenetwork]

I have been through Craig, CO well over a dozen times. But I just happened to look up at the right time today for this gem...

This one is vintage, likely over 30 years old.  I believe the reason this one still stands is because the trees on either side of the pole has turned it into a hidden, forgotten assembly:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/uQRj4jEcbMVbT2DV6

Whoa, how have I never seen that? I have also been through Craig, westbound by that sign, probably a dozen times. Makes me wonder what else I've missed right under my nose.

Even in the dead of winter with no leaves on the trees, it's still pretty camouflaged!!


https://maps.app.goo.gl/cNnyLBPZDCHTnfjZ7

[zachary_amaryllis]

On the topic of Adopt-A-Road, imagine if AARoads adopted a road. Where would we go?

All the roads that trigger people. Things like I-238, Breezewood, I-99 and the like.

[hbelkins]

When you need a "y" and don't have one in your stock of demountable copy, just cut the top off a "g" instead.

On the Daniel Boone Hal Rogers Parkway eastbound between London and Manchester. The signs originally listed only London and Hazard, but Hyden was added later.

2022 road trip photos - 227 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

2022 road trip photos - 228 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

[roadman65]

https://goo.gl/maps/62Saq8ZqS2tyt3BG8
This mileage sign seems to feel the need to post the "mi"  abbreviation for miles instead of the standard numbers only.

[machias]

https://goo.gl/maps/62Saq8ZqS2tyt3BG8
This mileage sign seems to feel the need to post the "mi"  abbreviation for miles instead of the standard numbers only.

I believe there's a sign on NY 12 South approaching NY 49 that lists the next three interchanges with mileage, and "MILE"  is on every line.  There's a newer version that this one.
 
 

[formulanone]

https://goo.gl/maps/62Saq8ZqS2tyt3BG8
This mileage sign seems to feel the need to post the "mi"  abbreviation for miles instead of the standard numbers only.

I believe there's a sign on NY 12 South approaching NY 49 that lists the next three interchanges with mileage, and "MILE"  is on every line.  There's a newer version that this one.
 
 

Here's that sign in 2018, so they just carbon copied it...

[JoePCool14]

https://goo.gl/maps/62Saq8ZqS2tyt3BG8
This mileage sign seems to feel the need to post the “mi” abbreviation for miles instead of the standard numbers only.

I believe there’s a sign on NY 12 South approaching NY 49 that lists the next three interchanges with mileage, and “MILE” is on every line.  There’s a newer version that this one.
 
 

Here's that sign in 2018, so they just carbon copied it...

That is a lazy carbon copy. They could've removed the MILE tags, removed AND from the third line, removed both Jct tags, and increased the size of the W in West (assuming this was done since 2009).

1 1/4 MILES also sounds better than 1 1/4 MILE.

[Scott5114]

Didn't NY post signage in km for a while at one point? I wonder if this sign was immediately before or after one in km.

[Dirt Roads]

Didn't NY post signage in km for a while at one point? I wonder if this sign was immediately before or after one in km.

I'm not sure what year it was (1993 or 1994), but early in the Clinton administration all projects funded by the Department of Transportation projects were required to be done in metric.  The firm I worked with started producing everything in metric for non-DOT funded projects because at any moment our clients might get an infusion of some Federal monies.  Not sure if this made any difference, but about the same time we got a bunch of projects in other countries (all of which used metric).  If I recall correctly, this ended prior to Clinton's second term.

The FHWA still has this posting from 1995:  https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/summer-1995/metric-conversion-how-soon

[J N Winkler]

I think it's interesting that the older distance sign has state route marker digits in Series D, while the newer one has them in Series F.  Isn't it supposed to be the other way round?

When I first started collecting construction plans in the early noughties, many were in metric, often with special logos in the chopblocks.  But the contractor backlash was already well in progress, so state DOTs started noping out of metric one by one.  The Millennium and 2003 editions of the MUTCD were explicitly designed to be metric-compatible, while the 2009 follows 1988 in using customary units only.

[Amaury]

Nothing too special, but, for some reason, at this one location, the US 2/US 97 concurrency isn't signed when heading northeast. The concurrency is otherwise perfectly signed everywhere else. They could probably easily add a US 97 shield below the US 2 shield, though: https://goo.gl/maps/4SDcMrairyiZZqVQ7