Daily Picture Challenge!

[paulthemapguy]

April 9: Road sign-style signs being used for something other than directing traffic on a road. Must be used as a sign (so nothing like using a sign to seal a hole in a fence or as a ramp or something). Examples: identifying a building or state DOT facility, advertising (so long as it's close enough that you could mistake it for a bona fide road sign), wayfinding in the hallways inside a building, signs directed at pedestrians in a rest area, etc.

I just took a picture that would be perfect for this. This is a sign mounted in the hallway of IDOT's district 3 headquarters, directing people to certain rooms.


20170324_114221 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[jbnv]

April 9: Road sign-style signs being used for something other than directing traffic on a road. Must be used as a sign (so nothing like using a sign to seal a hole in a fence or as a ramp or something). Examples: identifying a building or state DOT facility, advertising (so long as it's close enough that you could mistake it for a bona fide road sign), wayfinding in the hallways inside a building, signs directed at pedestrians in a rest area, etc.

At a Louisiana rest stop:


Squeezed text by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[Michael]

I have quite a few!

The Pit Stop convenience store in Weedsport has road-themed signs in the store.  Some of them can be seen in this picture:


Here's a picture from Steve's MA US 44 page:


These next pictures are ones I took myself:

This sign was in Destiny USA in Syracuse when the expansion opened:

I looked at the sign up close, and it looked to be MUTCD compliant

These signs are for people crossing a service road at Darien Lake from the theme park to the Performing Arts Center:


This sign is in the Broome County transit center in Binghamton:


This one might not count for the challenge:

I saw it in a service plaza on the Thruway coming back from Darien Lake the same night as the picture above

[MNHighwayMan]

April 10, 2017 Challenge: Warning flags (real flags or metal look-a-likes) attached to signs other than speed limit signs.

Flags drawing attention to the road leading to IA-316 South in Runnells after 316 was turned back within the city itself

[US71]

April 10, 2017 Challenge: Warning flags (real flags or metal look-a-likes) attached to signs other than speed limit signs.

Road Construction during the US 71/I-49 upgrade

[paulthemapguy]

April 10, 2017 Challenge: Warning flags (real flags or metal look-a-likes) attached to signs other than speed limit signs.

An old photo from Gibson City, IL


IL-009-047NN by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[Ian]

April 10, 2017 Challenge: Warning flags (real flags or metal look-a-likes) attached to signs other than speed limit signs.

Unfolded signs with flags attached for a temporary truck inspection station at a rest area along I-87 (Adirondack Northway) southbound near Glens Falls, NY. These were taken on August of 2011.

[US71]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

LA 1 at Shreveport


AR 178 near Flippin


MO 150 and MO 7

[Jim]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

These fortunately didn't last long on the Northway in Latham, New York.  June 25, 2009.

[jbnv]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

In before the peanut gallery posts its entire collection of Clearview signs.


Ugly US 51 Sign by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr


Ugly LA 39/47 Route Signs by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr


LA 1186 Route Sign with ugly LA 107 detour sign by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[formulanone]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

Somewhere, there's a backstory to this sign:

[US71]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

Somewhere, there's a backstory to this sign:

Contractor or county install is my guess

[Eth]

Somewhere, there's a backstory to this sign:

[extremely non-standard FL 100 marker]

The unexplained hand-drawn circle-ish shape is what really completes it.

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April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

Lean that state shape back (and squeeze some text, at least on the 53). Both from Winder, GA:

[MNHighwayMan]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

I posted these Sibley County creations monstrosities in the good/bad/ugly sign thread, but they definitely fit this challenge, too. Wide shield outlines on square blanks with absurd spacing between the digits. I just don't get it.

[US71]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

I posted these Sibley County creations in the good/bad/ugly sign thread, but they definitely fit this challenge, too.

Look better if the numbers were closer together

[Ian]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

Old, but misshapen. This is (possibly were) along US 1/2 in Houlton, Maine, at the north end of the concurrency.



Also in Maine, but much newer. The first is on US 1A in Hampden, and the second on US 2 in Bangor, next to the Eastern Maine Medical Center. This style of shield is unfortunately pretty common throughout the state.

[jwolfer]

April 11, 2017 Challenge: Let's get ugly. Ugly /Misshapen shields, ugly fonts

Somewhere, there's a backstory to this sign:

I have a picture of that.  I posted on the Florida thread before.  Very hideous!

LGMS428

[hotdogPi]

April 12, 2017 challenge: Snow south of the 37th parallel. When you post your photo, mention where the photo was taken. (And obviously, it must be a road-related photo.)

[jbnv]

April 12, 2017 challenge: Snow south of the 37th parallel. When you post your photo, mention where the photo was taken. (And obviously, it must be a road-related photo.)

Hammond, LA.


Louisiana Snow 2008-12-11 by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

Houston, TX.


Houston Snow 2009-12-04 by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[formulanone]

April 12, 2017 challenge: Snow south of the 37th parallel. When you post your photo, mention where the photo was taken. (And obviously, it must be a road-related photo.)

Decatur, Alabama:

[Eth]

April 12, 2017 challenge: Snow south of the 37th parallel. When you post your photo, mention where the photo was taken. (And obviously, it must be a road-related photo.)

Decatur, Georgia (crossover from the Street Sign Name Game thread):

[empirestate]

April 12, 2017 challenge: Snow south of the 37th parallel. When you post your photo, mention where the photo was taken. (And obviously, it must be a road-related photo.)

Antarctica.

South Pole Traverse June 2006 [Public domain], by Peter Rejcek, The Antarctic Sun, U.S. Antarctic Program, from Wikimedia Commons

[US71]

April 12, 2017 challenge: Snow south of the 37th parallel. When you post your photo, mention where the photo was taken. (And obviously, it must be a road-related photo.)

Is that 37th North or 37th South?


State Line Road Fort Smith, AR / Arkoma, OK

[empirestate]

April 13, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of signs or markers in the field that show a route number, but are intended primarily for internal or official use.

Examples would be NY's or VT's reference markers (or the bridge markers in Monroe County, NY), PA's LRS markers, CA's bridge/structure ID signs, and so forth. Better still, find something more obscure!

[Michael]

Here's a picture I took of an old NY 31B reference marker: