Signs With Design Errors

[mass_citizen]

For a short while, Massachusetts had an issue with a particular fabricator that would make Interstate shields that had 2di numbers but were fabricated on 3di blanks.  Interstate 95 between Canton and Attleboro still has a number of these elongated shields in place.

An example of this erroneous design can be found in the AARoads Shield Gallery-

www.aaroads.com/shields/show.php?image=MA19880951&search=95

there are 1 or 2 of these on the "128" portion of I-95 as well.

[agentsteel53]

Was that done on any other road? Only ever seen them on I-95. Conversely, RI had a number of 2-digit I-295s around Providence - not sure what's there now.

I know of one in NH that is the 30x25 size



that seems to be unrelated.

[hbelkins]

Conversely, RI had a number of 2-digit I-295s around Providence - not sure what's there now.

There were still a bunch there when I drove it back in the spring.

[PHLBOS]

There used to be more than a few I-279 markers in the Pittsburgh area that had an odd look to them.

When I-287 was mentioned, I thought this was the sign being referenced:



Or this one:

IMHO, those shields are a complete abortion; plus (not 100% sure of this), those may have been already commented on earlier in this thread.  Depsite their ugliness; those shields are, at least, still symetrical.

Again, the asymetrical shields I'm referring to have only appeared within the past year or so.

[roadman]

For a short while, Massachusetts had an issue with a particular fabricator that would make Interstate shields that had 2di numbers but were fabricated on 3di blanks.  Interstate 95 between Canton and Attleboro still has a number of these elongated shields in place.

An example of this erroneous design can be found in the AARoads Shield Gallery-

www.aaroads.com/shields/show.php?image=MA19880951&search=95

there are 1 or 2 of these on the "128" portion of I-95 as well.

IIRC, the only two projects this error showed up on (before MassHighway clarified the requirements with their contractor's sign fabricator) were the 2001 sign update on I-95 between Canton and Attleboro, and the 1999 sign update on I-95/128 between Reading and Peabody.  I-95/128 between Reading and Peabody also saw the installation of some grossly oversized Junction assemblies on secondary roads, several of which are still in place to this day.

[SignBridge]

New York State DOT and/or their contractor strikes again! On Long Island the interchange of Northern State Pkwy. and NY-110 in Melville (Suffolk County)was recently rebuilt. So wouldn't ya' know the new advance signs for Exit-40 both east and westbound on N.S. Parkway are misplaced and show wrong distances to the exit.

Eastbound says 1 Mile to the exit when the actual distance is exactly one-half mile according to my odometer. I believe the sign is correctly placed, but shows the wrong distance.

And westbound the sign (which is almost hidden behind an overpass) says 1/2 Mile  and the true distance is 1/4 mile.  I think the sign was placed at the wrong location as even NYSDOT doesn't normally mount signs half-hidden behind an overpass.

These people call themselves engineers? Well,  I guess we all make mistakes. Funny thing is almost 15 years ago the same things happened when the widening of the same parkway in Westbury was completed. They had two identical advance signs a quarter-mile apart both saying 1 Mile to Exit 32, and some other signs approaching Exit 31 were installed in the wrong sequence. I made a few phone calls and despite DOT's initial disbelief at what I was telling them, eventually it all got corrected.

But this time with Exit 40, Route 110, I think I'm just going to sit back and watch how long it takes them to figure it out themselves. (chuckle!) 

[formulanone]

An unnatural one:



(Street View)

[Alps]

An unnatural one:



(Street View)

Can I share this? It's amazing.

[NE2]

Other than the all-caps BEACHES (?), that's probably a valid sign assembly. I've seen many examples (though not in Florida) of shields being mounted separately above distance signs (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Highway_365_near_Maumelle,_Arkansas.jpg). So unless they want to put BEACHES 0 when you actually get there, why not just BEACHES?

[Alps]

Other than the all-caps BEACHES (?), that's probably a valid sign assembly. I've seen many examples (though not in Florida) of shields being mounted separately above distance signs (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Highway_365_near_Maumelle,_Arkansas.jpg). So unless they want to put BEACHES 0 when you actually get there, why not just BEACHES?

You're missing it.

[NE2]

Oh.

[renegade]

I saw it.

[myosh_tino]

I saw it.

You are the only "one"... 

[PHLBOS]

I saw it.

You are the only "one"... 

I saw it fully after a double take/second glance.

Hint: it has nothing to do with the BEACHES sign.

[mhh]

An unnatural one:



(Street View)

Was this sign purchased at Toys-backwards-R-Us? 

[sammi]

Was this sign purchased at Toys-Я-Us? 

FTFY.

[Big John]

or VH1?

[formulanone]

Can I share this? It's amazing.

Go ahead...

[Zeffy]

I saw it fully after a double take/second glance.

Hint: it has nothing to do with the BEACHES sign.

It took me a bit, but I figured it out. Bonus hint: the signs in question are only half of what you need to be looking at to get this image.

[jeffandnicole]

An unnatural one:



(Street View)

All you have to do is flip the sign around! :-) That'll solve '1' problem, although we'll see Florida at a whole different angle!

[hbelkins]

I saw the issue right away.

[Sanctimoniously]

I don't agree with either of these, but I've seen the worst of road signs and these aren't it.

[roadman]

Translation:  Entering snobbish neighborhood that doesn't give a rat's @$$ about your safety.

[mass_citizen]

Translation:  Entering snobbish neighborhood that doesn't give a rat's @$$ about your safety.

so true. however you wouldn't think so with the old warehouse in the background

[jakeroot]

I don't think this is an "error" per se, but there's a yield sign in Burnaby, BC with the word "Yield" on it. I know for Americans that's completely normal. But in BC, as well as the rest of Canada, and much of the civilized world, the "Yield" word or other equivalent is absent. Not sure how this slipped through.

http://goo.gl/4jdoi7



I suppose this would be the equivalent of a yield sign in America without the word "yield" on it. I'd imagine they don't make a big deal out of it, because if anything, putting the word "yield" on the sign simply re-enforces the maneuver.