The Worst of Road Signs

[national highway 1]

What is with this CA 86 shield?

Someone ought to check the 'R' in 'Boulevard'

[SSOWorld]

Desert info - imagine if someone spelled it dessert.

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

[formulanone]

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]

There's also the...um, inconsistencies in the font size in general.

[Scott5114]

What the hell is "Hlwd"? "Hollywood?"

[vtk]

Reminds me of the freshly-thawed Austin Powers who couldn't control the volume of his voice.

[codyg1985]

What the hell is "Hlwd"? "Hollywood?"

Yay for illegal abbreviations!

[kphoger]

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

[PurdueBill]

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! 

[yakra]

"Descenders" on the capital letters.  Yecch.

[Scott5114]

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.

[formulanone]

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.

[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.

[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?

[Quillz]

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

[agentsteel53]

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

chek the speling! 

[NE2]

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

[Quillz]

Ah, didn't notice that.

[hbelkins]

2011 Various KY pics July-Dec - 407 by hbelkins, on Flickr

[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.