The Worst of Road Signs

[WillWeaverRVA]

Magic wand, make my route shields GROW! (Ignore the watermark, I forgot to turn it off.)

[Takumi]

...and my point about Virginia's crappy signage spreading still stands.

[Central Avenue]

So...they took some blanks intended for 3-digit shields, and instead of just using the normal wide shield design (albeit with a 1-digit number, which we still would have complained about) they opted to make vertically-stretched shields? Strange.

[cpzilliacus]

So...they took some blanks intended for 3-digit shields, and instead of just using the normal wide shield design (albeit with a 1-digit number, which we still would have complained about) they opted to make vertically-stretched shields? Strange.

At least they could have used large "5" digit, don't you  think?

[Takumi]

The worst part is that those...things replaced a cutout. I can't find an isolated image of it, but a photo can be found here.

[cpzilliacus]

The worst part is that those...things replaced a cutout. I can't find an isolated image of it, but a photo can be found here.

That was a classic Virginia assembly, wasn't it?

Speaking of a classic Virginia touch, the arrows on the green panel are wonderful.

[1995hoo]

There's been a similar-looking shield for VA-267 for several years now on a BGS over the ramp from the Herndon/Monroe park-and-ride facility to the eastbound Dulles Toll Road. It's hideous. But those "5" shields look worse. Turn them upside-down, make them cutouts, and you'd have a pair of tombstones!

[Mapmikey]

The Tidewater area had that shape for a number of shields with a 3-digit number in them in the early 90s.  Probably not as many around because they have replaced a number of shields in the 20 years since...

Mapmikey

[Dr Frankenstein]

I weep.

http://maps.google.ca/?ll=45.202361,-74.142437&spn=0.019353,0.077162&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=45.202442,-74.142565&panoid=_wruQl6d-pCIFofPUkxb6Q&cbp=12,172.31,,1,5.14

[agentsteel53]

I weep.

http://maps.google.ca/?ll=45.202361,-74.142437&spn=0.019353,0.077162&t=h&z=14&layer=c&cbll=45.202442,-74.142565&panoid=_wruQl6d-pCIFofPUkxb6Q&cbp=12,172.31,,1,5.14

does Quebec ever apply Arialveticverstesk in normal use?

[Dr Frankenstein]

Only on generics (rue, boulevard, chemin, rivière, mont, etc.) on LGSes.

Click the button under "Technical Estimate" or "Devis technique" to get the design sheet. May not work in some non-IE browsers.
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-115-3
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-140
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-160-2
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-210-1
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-210-2
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-210-3
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-210-4
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-210-5
http://www.mtqsignalisation.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp?operateur=panneau&panneau=I-210-6

[cpzilliacus]

There's been a similar-looking shield for VA-267 for several years now on a BGS over the ramp from the Herndon/Monroe park-and-ride facility to the eastbound Dulles Toll Road. It's hideous. But those "5" shields look worse. Turn them upside-down, make them cutouts, and you'd have a pair of tombstones!

I know exactly what you are talking about.

Before that ugly shield, it was an (incorrect) secondary Va. 267 shield.

At least that one is ugly but (relatively-speaking) correct.

[amroad17]

If the "5's" were a little larger, it wouldn't look so bad.

Oh, for gas to be $172.9 again!

[Sanctimoniously]

Series Derp makes a reappearance.

[amroad17]

I noticed some signs in Norfolk using that font or something close to that in the early 90's, but that state shield and font are absolutely horrific!!  VDOT, or the independent contractors that fabricate these signs, should go back to the late 1970's-early 1980's specs of sign fabrication.

[vtk]

Series Derp makes a reappearance.

I think that's compressed Clearview 4B (or maybe 5B) but I like your name for it.

[Takumi]

The shield is horrible too. That same combination appears elsewhere in Norfolk; I know it exists at the US 58-VA 165 intersection.

[JMoses24]

^^^^

Is that real, or a photo illustration?

Appears to be an illustration. I can find no evidence of this assembly on GSV.

[NE2]

At least there are signs in Norfolk...

[AsphaltPlanet]

I don't know what kind of font this is.  (This sign has since been removed):


Another font that had no business of being included on a highway sign.  There were several signs like this in Southwestern Ontario, but I am not sure if any remain:

[Billy F 1988]

Really? Mikodacs? On a road sign?

[akotchi]

The shield is horrible too. That same combination appears elsewhere in Norfolk; I know it exists at the US 58-VA 165 intersection.

Looks more like an interstate shield with the top cut off and set on a standard white on black square.

[Mapmikey]

There are a fair number of these shield shapes in Norfolk although the ones I've seen were all squares and not rectangles like the 337 shield.  Some were flat top and some had the actual interstate top design...








Mapmikey

[Central Avenue]

Another font that had no business of being included on a highway sign.  There were several signs like this in Southwestern Ontario, but I am not sure if any remain:

I quite like that, actually.

[Takumi]

There are a fair number of these shield shapes in Norfolk although the ones I've seen were all squares and not rectangles like the 337 shield.

The 165 I saw in July was a rectangle.