Jokes on construction signs

[silverback1065]

I remember years ago they did this on I-65 when it was widened in Indianapolis, has this ever been done anywhere else?  I wish I had pictures, but all i could find was this article: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1999-06-30/features/9906300377_1_indot-jokes-knock

[oscar]

This is really ancient ('60s or '70s), and I have no photo, but when the complicated I-5/I-8 interchange was under construction in San Diego, the Roscoe Hazard construction company put up a sign saying basically "We don't know what it is either, we're only building it".

Then there's this workzone VMS, taken in 2012 on US 221 in Virginia between Bedford and Lynchburg:



But I'm not sure this was a joking admission of something we all already knew. An "EXCEPT DELAYS" VMS elsewhere in that work zone suggests that maybe it was just dyslexia.

[thenetwork]

In the 80s, when M-DOT was rebuilding I-75 from the Ohio line to Monroe, there was construction signage that started out with a smiley-face shield that started out as a frown at the beginning of the 5-10 mile zones  .  As you got closer to the end of the zone, the orange signs would tell how many miles of 1-lane were left and the frowning signs would gradually become neutral  , then at the end, the smiley face was a full smile 

[pumpkineater2]

I once saw a sign in my area that said "ZOMBIES AHEAD!" for a local Halloween attraction.

[bzakharin]

Are those VMSs restricted to use by the DOTs? There is a seemingly permanent one on NJ 73 North in Winslow advertising some local business.

[TEG24601]

It would be a nice thing if WSDOT did something like this, not just for construction, but for the ferry lines.  Most of their signs seem so stilted and boring.

[SSOWorld]

VMS's that talk about traffic deaths are running jokes to me...

EDIT: It's just annoying - I don't condone killing someone with a car - whether intentional or not.

[briantroutman]

I wish I had a photo of it (I don't)–a few weeks ago, I noticed the VMSes over the unopened portion of the new Presidio Parkway were continuously flashing "GET TO WORK" .

[Brandon]

VMS's that talk about traffic deaths are running jokes to me...

EDIT: It's just annoying - I don't condone killing someone with a car - whether intentional or not.

Oh, so you've seen the IDOT ones recently.  IDOT's VMSs: Death Count {flip} Lame-ass PSA

[pianocello]

VMS's that talk about traffic deaths are running jokes to me...

EDIT: It's just annoying - I don't condone killing someone with a car - whether intentional or not.

Oh, so you've seen the IDOT ones recently.  IDOT's VMSs: Death Count {flip} Lame-ass PSA

I've noticed Iowa do this too. Except the numbers are 3-4 times lower and it started a couple years later, so I perceive it as a mockery of Illinois.

Disclaimer: I also don't condone killing someone with a car

[Mr. Matté]

"Slow down, my mommy workƨ here," then when we go through, there are no women on the construction site (and in most cases in Pennsylvania work zones anyone else either, just a single lane to get the out-of-staters mad).

[6a]

In the 80s, when M-DOT was rebuilding I-75 from the Ohio line to Monroe, there was construction signage that started out with a smiley-face shield that started out as a frown at the beginning of the 5-10 mile zones  .  As you got closer to the end of the zone, the orange signs would tell how many miles of 1-lane were left and the frowning signs would gradually become neutral  , then at the end, the smiley face was a full smile 

Yep, that's the first one I thought of when I saw the thread title.

[vtk]

I took a flight around Columbus in a small airplane circa 2001 and noticed, on a stub end of the unopened I-670 (between the 315 bridge and where the Olentangy bridge would later be built, IIRC) someone had painted in bold white paint, "THIS SENTENCE IS FALSE".