What signs make you cringe when you see them in your local area?

[DuskDarf1]

What signs make you cringe when you see them in your local area?

Here's mine (I know it's temporary, but it still bugs me):

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5128446,-81.3933675,3a,36.6y,234.55h,116.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sao38rSxaPyIHp5NDcfUJmA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[Roadgeekteen]

What signs make you cringe when you see them in your local area?

Here's mine (I know it's temporary, but it still bugs me):

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5128446,-81.3933675,3a,36.6y,234.55h,116.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sao38rSxaPyIHp5NDcfUJmA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

speed limit 55

[Max Rockatansky]

The "No Trains, More Dams" signs around every major State Highway in central San Joaquin Valley.  I don't agree with the huge cost overruns and lack oversight that the High Speed Rail has had but the farmers are crack if they think more dams are somehow going to produce extra water in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 

[achilles765]

There's a couple here in Houston that bother me because they're incorrect.
On I 45 south heading into downtown, at the interchange with I 10, there's a sign for an upcoming exit and only this one sign lists it as "Dallas avenue/Pierce avenue."   Those are not what those streets are called. They are Dallas and pierce streets. Every other sign lists them correctly aside from this one
The same thing is found on I 69/US 59 heading north into downtown just after the merge with 288 and right before the interchange with I 45: there's an exit signed for "gray avenue/ pierce avenue" . Again, it's "gray street/pierce street."   This is the only sign that lists it this way

There used to be a brand new sign on I 45 that had airline drive misspelled as "Arline Drive"  but they replaced it.

[ozarkman417]

I pass this one frequently, on the way to my favorite hike in Missouri. I first saw this sign about five years ago and have been wondering why its taken MoDOT so long to fix it ever since.

MO US 176

[hotdogPi]

"Drive like your kids live here" on non-residential roads.

Vandalized crime watch signs.

[zzcarp]

The VMS sign on I-25 SB past between I-76 and I-70. It usually has the current travel time to Speer Blvd and US 6 and is a good proxy indicator of upcoming downtown traffic and whether I should stay the course or bail and take an alternate route. However, often our geniuses at CDOT put nonessential information on the signs e.g. "Buckle Up", "Downtown Event Saturday", "Don't Drink and Drive" while removing the important current travel time information from the sign.

"Drive like your kids live here" on non-residential roads.

I always speed up when I see those signs. I'm sure that if I had kids and they lived there, they'd want me to get home as quickly as possible.

[zachary_amaryllis]

this one.
https://goo.gl/maps/EFxEDsnH619jTd6C8

its us-287 south of loveland co. but this just makes me feel all squidgy inside.

[JoePCool14]

"Drive like your kids live here" on non-residential roads.

FTFY. I think those signs are condescending and otherwise useless no matter where they are.

[Scott5114]

There are people that have signs that in their local area that don't make them cringe?

[Max Rockatansky]

"Drive like your kids live here" on non-residential roads.

My retort to that sign on my street was taking our nieces for rides in my Challenger.

[SectorZ]

I think it's gone now, but Washington St in Revere MA once had a ".10 kills" sign, long after even the state dropped the BAC level to .08 for the drunk driving threshold.

Put me on the list for the "Drive Like Your Kids Live Here" signs, and anywhere. Does Casey Anthony speed up when she sees one?

Worse off are the more rare "Drive Like Your Pets Live Here" signs.

[SkyPesos]

What signs make you cringe when you see them in your local area?

Here's mine (I know it's temporary, but it still bugs me):

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5128446,-81.3933675,3a,36.6y,234.55h,116.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sao38rSxaPyIHp5NDcfUJmA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Show that to tolbs17, it seems like he needs content for his "Strange overhead signs" thread lately.

[1995hoo]

"Drive like your kids live here" on non-residential roads.

My retort to that sign on my street was taking our nieces for rides in my Challenger.

Similarly, when I was in my teens, sometimes the police put up one of those "SPEED LIMIT 25/YOUR SPEED [display]"  trailers in our neighborhood. I may have tried to set the high score a few times. Good thing I've grown up a bit since then!

[ozarkman417]

"Drive like your kids live here" on non-residential roads.

My retort to that sign on my street was taking our nieces for rides in my Challenger.

Similarly, when I was in my teens, sometimes the police put up one of those "SPEED LIMIT 25/YOUR SPEED [display]"  trailers in our neighborhood. I may have tried to set the high score a few times. Good thing I've grown up a bit since then!

A few months ago, some of those appeared in my neighborhood after some residents complained about speeders in the area. They have since been removed, but rather than using it to measure my speed while driving, I used it to measure my speed while sprinting. I'm a distance runner, not a sprinter, so ended up getting a speed of about 15mph.

[Max Rockatansky]

"Drive like your kids live here" on non-residential roads.

My retort to that sign on my street was taking our nieces for rides in my Challenger.

Similarly, when I was in my teens, sometimes the police put up one of those "SPEED LIMIT 25/YOUR SPEED [display]"  trailers in our neighborhood. I may have tried to set the high score a few times. Good thing I've grown up a bit since then!

A few months ago, some of those appeared in my neighborhood after some residents complained about speeders in the area. They have since been removed, but rather than using it to measure my speed while driving, I used it to measure my speed while sprinting. I'm a distance runner, not a sprinter, so ended up getting a speed of about 15mph.

I'm also a distance runner, the best I ever did was 17 MPH for a short burst.  They had one on my street occasionally in Scottsdale and I would do sprints at it towards the end of my morning runs.

[JoePCool14]

What signs make you cringe when you see them in your local area?

Here's mine (I know it's temporary, but it still bugs me):

https://www.google.com/maps/@28.5128446,-81.3933675,3a,36.6y,234.55h,116.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sao38rSxaPyIHp5NDcfUJmA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Show that to tolbs17, it seems like he needs content for his "Strange overhead signs" thread lately.

Not gonna lie, I thought that sign was actually a North Carolina sign posted by tolbs. That is genuinely lazy what they did, repurposing the old left exit sign. They couldn't even be bothered to move the exit tab to the right.

[kphoger]

just a few blocks from my house

[Big John]

just a few blocks from my house

Pre-1970s arrow lane use signs were white on green, but it doesn't look that old.

[SeriesE]

Rebuilding California: project funded with SB1 dollars signs

Even worse is when the sign is up but there's no progress for a long time for simple projects like paving.