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

[kphoger]

To use the Cass bike route, turn right?

To get to the bike route, turn right and use Cass?

Trailblazer jigsaw puzzle fail.  (M-1 Woodward Avenue in Detroit)

[wanderer2575]

^  The latter, hence the error.

[pderocco]

To use the Cass bike route, turn right?

To get to the bike route, turn right and use Cass?

Trailblazer jigsaw puzzle fail.  (M-1 Woodward Avenue in Detroit)

I guess we could call that bad banner grammar.

[Scott5114]

I assumed Cass was a person, so to use him, you have to take the bike route.

[PColumbus73]

I assumed Cass was a person, so to use him, you have to take the bike route.

Dream a little dream of me...

[kphoger]

Everybody's getting fat except Mama Cass.

[Dirt Roads]

Everybody's getting fat except Mama Cass.

Broke, busted, disgusted...  Wait a second, that is another thread!

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eF2a8cr8tYcY8uKo8?g_st=ac

Have a roadway dividing with an overhead gantry above the split, but nothing on the gantry.

[thenetwork]

 

[Mapmikey]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eF2a8cr8tYcY8uKo8?g_st=ac

Have a roadway dividing with an overhead gantry above the split, but nothing on the gantry.

There is this instead:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/7b7KBhP2UFYzXCcQ7

 

[1995hoo]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eF2a8cr8tYcY8uKo8?g_st=ac

Have a roadway dividing with an overhead gantry above the split, but nothing on the gantry.

There is this instead:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/7b7KBhP2UFYzXCcQ7

Yeah, I don't think it's that big a deal because all the roads essentially go to the same place there and ultimately, both splits on that particular road serve the overall parking for the Meadowlands. I recall when we went to a Springsteen concert at old Giants Stadium (accessing the complex from the northbound Turnpike via Exit 16W), we wound up parked in the area the map shows as Lot 28. For events at the stadium, they use all the lots around there.

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eF2a8cr8tYcY8uKo8?g_st=ac

Have a roadway dividing with an overhead gantry above the split, but nothing on the gantry.

There is this instead:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/7b7KBhP2UFYzXCcQ7

 

Still why look a gift horse in tge mouth.


On another note this is odd.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49141414213
Two different pointing arrows for the same ramp.

[jakeroot]

On another note this is odd.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/49141414213
Two different pointing arrows for the same ramp.

They just signed the 10 freeway California-style.

[pderocco]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YH6D6XB4TRxFC7eWA

This business loop is labeled as a DOWNTOWN LOOP. Is that a one-off, or are there others elsewhere?

[D-Dey65]

Everybody's getting fat except Mama Cass.

Oh, no. Don't tell me we're getting into necrophilia now.

Or should I play this song?
https://secondhandsongs.com/work/54430

[kphoger]

I saw these on GSV as I was following my friends' GPS track a couple of days ago.  It appears that a bunch of them were installed along a few stretches of highway not too long ago.  Has anyone seen this combination used elsewhere to warn of a level crossing on a side-road with low ground clearance?

[Rothman]

I saw these on GSV as I was following my friends' GPS track a couple of days ago.  It appears that a bunch of them were installed along a few stretches of highway not too long ago.  Has anyone seen this combination used elsewhere to warn of a level crossing on a side-road with low ground clearance?

Perhaps not on the same support, but I have seen them used together in that kind of situation.

[CoreySamson]

I saw these on GSV as I was following my friends' GPS track a couple of days ago.  It appears that a bunch of them were installed along a few stretches of highway not too long ago.  Has anyone seen this combination used elsewhere to warn of a level crossing on a side-road with low ground clearance?

I actually really like that. Nonetheless, that's perhaps the second strangest combination of signs I've seen on a Texas U-pole (are those what those are called?). Here's the first:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hEXikfPFZJ7RphVR8

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As for my own travels, I found 3 interesting signs yesterday (in very close proximity), all on CR 310/311 near Jones Creek, TX:

First up is the derpiest chevron I think that I've ever seen: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SH7yDYParAitm8LHA


Second, here's a (ahem) diagrammatic county route shield? There's another one going the other direction: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xyeKYG4vJ6EDPFKL8


Lastly, there's this plant entrance sign, which I think is an official DOT sign because it has the yellow object marker diamonds that the Houston TxDOT district loves so much and because it resembles this similar one at a different plant several miles away: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4hCqoCziMLsW7p7f7

[kphoger]

a Texas U-pole (are those what those are called?)

Around the forum, anyway, we call them 'Texas goalposts'.

[RobbieL2415]

On Route 6 in Truro, Mass., approaching Provincetown

Did you get a shot of the custom flashing arrow further up the road?

[Vaulter]

On Route 6 in Truro, Mass., approaching Provincetown

Did you get a shot of the custom flashing arrow further up the road?

I think I missed that when I drove by. This picture is from Google.

[GaryA]

I saw these on GSV as I was following my friends' GPS track a couple of days ago.  It appears that a bunch of them were installed along a few stretches of highway not too long ago.  Has anyone seen this combination used elsewhere to warn of a level crossing on a side-road with low ground clearance?

Both signs are used, though not on the same pole, on CA 118 at Grimes Canyon Road west of Moorpark.

[D-Dey65]

I saw these on GSV as I was following my friends' GPS track a couple of days ago.  It appears that a bunch of them were installed along a few stretches of highway not too long ago.  Has anyone seen this combination used elsewhere to warn of a level crossing on a side-road with low ground clearance?

Ahh, what truly makes this unique, are 1)the signpost, and 2)the unevenness of the two main warning road signs.

There are probably thousands of intersections near railroad crossings where such a signpost arrangement would apply, but local and state departments only want to add one at a time, and sometimes one of them entirely.

[roadman65]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/3V3KYRibDdHxeGmp7?g_st=ac

 An unusual situation in Short Hills, NJ. One sign says CR 608 while the other says CR 527 Spur 

[interstatefan990]

I wonder what was so interesting about the number 165...