The Worst of Road Signs

[sammi]

EXP'WAY

Is there even an apostrophe there? squints

I've never seen it like that. I've seen EXPWAY, EXPWY, EXPY, EXPRWAY, EXPR, EXP-WAY (HI-WAY?) but never EXP'WAY.

[vdeane]

Looks like it, unless there was dust on the camera.

[vtk]

The signs are mostly best but the way they're combined is worst.

What happened to the Sine Salad thread?

[hbelkins]

Both along KY 52 eastbound in Madison County, west of Richmond.

[Alex4897]

Is the 595 seriously THAT bad?

Not as bad as the Rte 2881 underneath of it, but still bad.

[Billy F 1988]

Is the 595 seriously THAT bad?

Seeing that this is using two (maybe three) FHWA widths, I'd say it is.

[hbelkins]

Yes, and I lied about the 595 sign. It's actually westbound. I was traveling east and saw it in my rear-view mirror and turned around to get a picture of it.

[formulanone]

Once you leave O'Hare, you'll really want to leave O'Hare:



I know airports sometimes have non-standard signage, but these were hit with the ugly stick too many times.

[Billy F 1988]

Get me the axe and I'll give it the choppin' it deserves!

[Zeffy]

Once you leave O'Hare, you'll really want to leave O'Hare:



I know airports sometimes have non-standard signage, but these were hit with the ugly stick too many times.

Ahem...



I don't know what's worse - the Arial tilty Chicago text, the wacko arrow, or the MONSTROSITY I-90 and I-294 shields.

[Kacie Jane]

I don't know what's worse - the Arial tilty Chicago text, the wacko arrow, or the MONSTROSITY I-90 and I-294 shields.

For me, it's the last one by far.  (The out of alignment text is ugly, but there's far worse out there, and the arrows are about what you might expect from airport signage.)  But perhaps even worse than the shields themselves is the fact that they're on a panel that's completely redundant and unnecessary.  If it were just the top sign, yeah, it would be ugly, but it wouldn't occur to me to put it on this thread.

[kkt]

Yes. the lower one, definitely.  It looks like they contracted the sign to some third world country and it was designed by someone who'd never seen an actual interstate sign.

[Central Avenue]

I don't know what's worse - the Arial tilty Chicago text, the wacko arrow, or the MONSTROSITY I-90 and I-294 shields.

For me, it's the last one by far.  (The out of alignment text is ugly, but there's far worse out there, and the arrows are about what you might expect from airport signage.)  But perhaps even worse than the shields themselves is the fact that they're on a panel that's completely redundant and unnecessary.  If it were just the top sign, yeah, it would be ugly, but it wouldn't occur to me to put it on this thread.

I do have to wonder what the through process was behind that. Like, someone not only decided to spend time and money designing and fabricating a sign that was completely redundant and had no reason to exist, but then proceeded to mount it on the exact same posts as the sign it duplicates.

[Brandon]

^^ That could be a CDOT job or a Chicago Airports job.  I don't know which, but both are fully owned and operated by the City of Chicago.  The freeway prohibition sign just behind it is in hellvetica.  I'll wager it's CDOT.

[renegade]

Once you leave O'Hare, you'll really want to leave O'Hare:



I know airports sometimes have non-standard signage, but these were hit with the ugly stick too many times.

Someone who works at the sign shop should NOT have been let out of the house that day.

[NE2]

[Brandon]

I'm trying to figure out how one reads the bottom line.  Even at 15 mph on a bike it's a got to be a pain in the ass to read, much less at 30 mph in a car.

[Alex]

Some new entries on I-26 west/I-240 east in Asheville.

[english si]

In a similar way-to-small-text vein

[formulanone]

...a DUCK!

[Brandon]

In a similar way-to-small-text vein

It's also on the wrong side of the road to see quickly for the entrance to which it is referring.  BTW, I had to take a minute and get the context to realize that was a two-way road.

[english si]

It's also on the wrong side of the road to see quickly for the entrance to which it is referring.  BTW, I had to take a minute and get the context to realize that was a two-way road.

Driving the other way, where it is on the correct side (though having signs on the right are common in the UK - one pole and all that, saving effort*) doesn't help - the font is way too small, and the text way too much, to read the sign (once is UK standard, rather than the twice that is US standard) and turn into the turning.

I've started seeing others on Hertfordshire's roads, though mostly just for tourist destinations, with similarly small font size.

*here, though, visibility would also be a problem with a sign on the left-hand side, I think, due to the speed limit signs.

[Brandon]

It's also on the wrong side of the road to see quickly for the entrance to which it is referring.  BTW, I had to take a minute and get the context to realize that was a two-way road.

Driving the other way, where it is on the correct side (though having signs on the right are common in the UK - one pole and all that, saving effort*) doesn't help - the font is way too small, and the text way too much, to read the sign (once is UK standard, rather than the twice that is US standard) and turn into the turning.

I've started seeing others on Hertfordshire's roads, though mostly just for tourist destinations, with similarly small font size.

*here, though, visibility would also be a problem with a sign on the left-hand side, I think, due to the speed limit signs.

Not really.  We usually place our before the intersection.  Of course, one speed limit sign would be enough, I would think.

[yakra]

I'm trying to figure out how one reads the bottom line.  Even at 15 mph on a bike it's a got to be a pain in the ass to read, much less at 30 mph in a car.

Huh what? It clearly says:
<- For Every Christopher Blvd / Bebop Victor Tyrone Curry Blvd ->

[kurumi]

Bebop Victor Tyrone Curry Blvd

That is my favorite anime and/or potato snack