The Worst of Road Signs

[Brandon]

Post the worst, most ineptly put together pieces of crap in your state. Not just "oh, it's in Clearview", "wrong type of shield", or "it's a bubble shield" or anything like that. We're talking pure, unadulterated suck here. Stuff that makes you wonder what they were thinking. Stuff that should only result from a night of binge drinking at the sign shop. Like this!

I never Google Street Viewed this one before, but the county sign in the other direction doesn't look much better: https://goo.gl/maps/3j1y7

[noelbotevera]

This sign was just posted last Wednesday, June 24. The capital K and lower case k in "Kilpatrick" are switched.

DSC05094 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

Bad, better than some for Oklahoma, but still bad.

What's a "Prkwy"?  A Porkway? LOL!
Then there's the Tpke with the unnecessary extra "e".

Still, it's a better effort than CRaiG coUNty.

"Tpke" is a commonly used, but rarer than the usual "Tpk". I like what Oklahoma did by using the former, which makes it easier to convey and compute that it is, in fact, a turnpike.

[hbelkins]

Wouldn't "Tnpk" convey it just as well?

[vdeane]

This sign was just posted last Wednesday, June 24. The capital K and lower case k in "Kilpatrick" are switched.

DSC05094 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

That's actually pretty good by Oklahoma standards.  Yeah, I know, not saying much.

[jakeroot]

Wouldn't "Tnpk" convey it just as well?

Makes more sense than "Tip-Key".

[1995hoo]

Wouldn't "Tnpk" convey it just as well?

"Tpke" did not strike me as odd at all. I'm sure part of that is that my parents' neighborhood is accessed via Little River Turnpike, which appears on most street signs as "Little River Tpke" (though BGSs use "Tnpk" instead), so I don't give that abbreviation a second though because I've been seeing it all my life. But I've also seen "Trpk" and "Trnpk." The latter, in particular, seems silly–why bother abbreviating at all if you're only going to cut three out of eight letters? Funny thing is, I've never seen "Tpk."

[spooky]

Why not "Pike"?

[jeffandnicole]

This sign was just posted last Wednesday, June 24. The capital K and lower case k in "Kilpatrick" are switched.

DSC05094 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

I don't see why Parkway needed to be abbreviated whatsoever here, since the only missing letters - 2 a's - would've fit in that line.

I prefer 'Tpk' myself, since the 'e' seems a bit unnecessary.

[PHLBOS]

I don't see why Parkway needed to be abbreviated whatsoever here, since the only missing letters - 2 a's - would've fit in that line.

Given the needed spacing between Yukon and Parkway; spelling the latter out would've been a tight-fit.  The lettering for both words would need to spaced closer together in order to pull such off.

[jeffandnicole]

I don't see why Parkway needed to be abbreviated whatsoever here, since the only missing letters - 2 a's - would've fit in that line.

Given the needed spacing between Yukon and Parkway; spelling the latter out would've been a tight-fit.  The lettering for both words would need to spaced closer together in order to pull such off.

Granted, we're looking at an angle in the pic, but it looks as if the y in Parkway sits directly under the k in Tpke.  Thus, one 'a' would take up the space that the 'e' takes up, and the other 'a' would take up the space of the other k, and it should fit perfectly. 

[riiga]

Why not "Pike"?

Why not put a pictogram of this instead then? 

[1995hoo]

Why not "Pike"?

Maybe they don't call it that.

[noelbotevera]

NY 210 bowtie shield anyone? That isn't how you make New York state shields.

[jakeroot]

NY 210 bowtie shield anyone? That isn't how you make New York state shields.

What's a bowtie shield? Never heard of them.

[Big John]

NY 210 bowtie shield anyone? That isn't how you make New York state shields.

What's a bowtie shield? Never heard of them.

[cl94]

NY 210 bowtie shield anyone? That isn't how you make New York state shields.

What's a bowtie shield? Never heard of them.

Still better than Tonawanda's Interstate shields

[national highway 1]

Credit to Formulanone

[Signal]

Why not just remove it?

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.837314,-76.287567,3a,15y,157h,93.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1VqjUJUsPzfHizs8FCyzFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[SignGeek101]

Why not just remove it?

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.837314,-76.287567,3a,15y,157h,93.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1VqjUJUsPzfHizs8FCyzFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The sign is telling you that there is no speed limit on this road. 

[iBallasticwolf2]

Why not just remove it?

https://www.google.com/maps/@36.837314,-76.287567,3a,15y,157h,93.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1VqjUJUsPzfHizs8FCyzFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The sign is telling you that there is no speed limit on this road. 

It might be a remnant from before the tunnel had VMS speed limit signs. It would conflict with the VMS signs if it still had a posted limit on it. So actually it should be removed.

[okroads]

This sign was just posted last Wednesday, June 24. The capital K and lower case k in "Kilpatrick" are switched.

DSC05094 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

This sign has been corrected:

IMG_1888 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

[iBallasticwolf2]

This sign was just posted last Wednesday, June 24. The capital K and lower case k in "Kilpatrick" are switched.

DSC05094 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

This sign has been corrected:

IMG_1888 by Eric Stuve, on Flickr

It still says Porkway 

[hotdogPi]

"Previous" refers to the one posted two weeks ago with "kilpatricK", not the correct one before that.

At least the previous sign wasn't the "Killpatrick" Turnpike. There would be too many interpretations on which Patrick it was referring to that should be killed (none, it would just be a typo).

However, maybe we should call the previous sign Patrick.

[noelbotevera]

"Previous" refers to the one posted two weeks ago with "kilpatricK", not the correct one before that.

At least the previous sign wasn't the "Killpatrick" Turnpike. There would be too many interpretations on which Patrick it was referring to that should be killed (none, it would just be a typo).

However, maybe we should call the previous sign Patrick.

The Patrick Turnpike?

[vtk]

"Previous" refers to the one posted two weeks ago with "kilpatricK", not the correct one before that.

At least the previous sign wasn't the "Killpatrick" Turnpike. There would be too many interpretations on which Patrick it was referring to that should be killed (none, it would just be a typo).

However, maybe we should call the previous sign Patrick.

The Patrick Turnpike?

There are probably around 60 guys named Patrick Pike in the country.  Probably nobody named Patrick Turnpike, because Turnpike is not among the top hundred thousand or so surnames for which I have statistics.