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The Worst of Road Signs

Started by Scott5114, September 21, 2010, 04:01:21 AM

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What is with this CA 86 shield?

Someone ought to check the 'R' in 'Boulevard'
"Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Take note of the highway, the road that you take." Jeremiah 31:21


SSOWorld

Desert info - imagine if someone spelled it dessert.

I'll go for info on where to find cake. (the cake is a lie!)
Scott O.

Not all who wander are lost...
Ah, the open skies, wind at my back, warm sun on my... wait, where the hell am I?!
As a matter of fact, I do own the road.
Raise your what?

Wisconsin - out-multiplexing your state since 1918.

formulanone

#952
Fort is apparently "F raised to the power of t"...and they should have just made up an abbreviation for airport, just to rly ms w/my hd. This sign was likely put up in mid-2011, as I didn't remember this one earlier last year.




empirestate

Heh, it might help if airports had more manageable names...like just Ft. Lauderdale Airport.

Takumi

#954
There's also the...um, inconsistencies in the font size in general.
Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
Olive Garden must be stopped.  I must stop them.

Don't @ me. Seriously.

Scott5114

What the hell is "Hlwd"? "Hollywood?"
uncontrollable freak sardine salad chef

vtk

Reminds me of the freshly-thawed Austin Powers who couldn't control the volume of his voice.
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been.

codyg1985

Quote from: Scott5114 on January 13, 2012, 12:49:06 AM
What the hell is "Hlwd"? "Hollywood?"

Yay for illegal abbreviations!
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Huntsville, AL, United States

kphoger

One exit north of where I work.....

He Is Already Here! Let's Go, Flamingo!
Dost thou understand the graveness of the circumstances?
Deut 23:13
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: PKDIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

PurdueBill

Quote from: formulanone on January 12, 2012, 09:31:57 PM


That would almost have to be that screwy on purpose.  Mixed-case "Exit", letters vertically centered in "EAST" instead of bottom-justified, all the different sizes of letters in the main legend....I know there are button-copy signs out there with occasional mixed letter sizes for a single letter but that can be understandable.  A fully-reflective sign with this number of screw-ups seems like it might be a mess deliberately!  :P

yakra

"Descenders" on the capital letters.  Yecch.
"Officer, I'm always careful to drive the speed limit no matter where I am and that's what I was doin'." Said "No, you weren't," she said, "Yes, I was." He said, "Madam, I just clocked you at 22 MPH," and she said "That's the speed limit," he said "No ma'am, that's the route numbah!"  - Gary Crocker

Scott5114

Quote from: kphoger on January 13, 2012, 10:46:22 AM
One exit north of where I work.....


Meh. That's probably about the worst sort of thing KDOT puts out, and it's not too bletcherous. Here's a thread where J.N. Winkler and I discuss the causes of this sort of sign.
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formulanone

#962
Quote from: empirestate on January 12, 2012, 09:45:06 PM
Heh, it might help if airports had more manageable names...like just Ft. Lauderdale Airport.

The irony is that FLL is neither in Fort Lauderdale nor Hollywood, it's in Dania Beach. While that's not completely surprising (most large airports are in a suburb of a larger city), it's worth mentioning that Dania Beach has no actual beaches nor shoreline within its incorporated limits.

Sometimes Florida is the land of artifice.

xcellntbuy

There is a very small piece of Dania Beach just north of the eastern end East Dania Beach Blvd. that is, in fact, a coastal piece of the City.  Very isolated part of the City, filled with Australian pines.  I believe the shoreline of the City is only a few hundred feet long and this annexed land was the justification to change the City's name from Dania to Dania Beach in 1999.

You will find that tiny red outline on the map below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dania_Beach,_Florida

WillWeaverRVA

Not sure what happened here, but that 7 isn't actually a 7.

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Mapmikey

I am aware of another example along these lines in Virginia...

This is on SR 802 near Rappahannock River bridge...



Mapmikey

Takumi

These are from my trip through Henrico County yesterday. This is where VA 157 joins/leaves Gaskins Road, and looks like a cross between a Virginia shield and an Oregon shield.



This is on US 301/VA 2 approaching the I-95 interchange where 301/2 "surrounds" I-95. That first I-95 shield is a 3-digit shield with the numerals spaced out.

Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
Olive Garden must be stopped.  I must stop them.

Don't @ me. Seriously.

Quillz

Virginia and Oregon do have nearly identical route shields, the only difference being the latter uses a slightly more rounded design.

agentsteel53

those 157s don't look all that bad.  I wouldn't have given them a second glance.

speaking of VA, have we ever poked fun at this one?

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Quillz

As far as non-cutouts go, it's not too bad.

agentsteel53

Quote from: Quillz on January 25, 2012, 03:42:32 PM
As far as non-cutouts go, it's not too bad.

chek the speling!  :ded:
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NE2

Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 25, 2012, 03:31:30 PM
speaking of VA, have we ever poked fun at this one?
I've poked something at it if you know what I mean hurr hurr
pre-1945 Florida route log

I accept and respect your identity as long as it's not dumb shit like "identifying as a vaccinated attack helicopter".

Quillz


hbelkins

Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

Quillz

The numeral "9" gets messed up a lot. There are a lot of CA-99 shields throughout the state that always seem have a "lazy" 9, it looks like it's falling over.



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