Someone posted this in a newsgroup I follow. How confusing this is!!

 

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In Ohio, US 68 is a north-south route, but an east-west route in Kentucky. H.B. Elkins photographed this in Aberdeen, Ohio at the foot of the Harsha Bridge.

 

As a result, it leads to confusion like this:

 

And this:

I would hate to work at a nearby gas station. All those questions about directions. Get AAA dumb@ss!

Ha.

 

When I was running around SE Ohio in September, I got myself confused on the stretch that 13, 37, and 93 runs together and ended up traveling from New Lexington to Renyoldsburg via Zanesville.

That's great stuff...

 

How about this one in Wilmington on 68:

 

(from ink's wilmington thread)

 

Not to mention that 68 is called North South Street and South South Street inside city limits. Talk about confusion.

Wow. ODOT is usually spot-on with signage (non-interstate), but good grief. Banners are supposed to be on top.

 

Here are earlier versions of the signs I posted first.

 

US 62/68 from the new Harsha Bridge to the old Maysville span is now Business US 62/68, not ALT US 62/68. There used to be cardinal directions on the ALT route, but were removed when the Business designations were applied (for the most part). This is to remove the confusion with the north/south and east/west directions.

 

At the end of the old Maysville Bridge, here are shots of how US 62/68 was signed after the Harsha Bridge was completed.

 

At the end of the Harsha Bridge before sign renovations

 

In Kentucky, our Daniel Boone Parkway ( a two-lane limited-access highway ) was renamed the Hal Rogers Parkway for NO reason. Under Patton and Fletcher, our unique parkway designations and signs have all but been removed.

 

 

Old Kentucky welcome sign...

 

...which became...

 

...and is now (thankfully)...

Lawd.

geez louise. they gotta be kidding with those signs.

 

please tell me its a teenager prank?

Don't know why, but I just love those cluster-f's of signage...

 

No pics to provide, but a fun mess nonetheless... If you head north on I-95 into NJ from PA, and stay on the road, it will eventually turn into I-295 South and then into I-195 West and you've never left the road (you'll also have completed a near circle...)

^^ Yeah that is because I-95 is gapped in that part of New Jersey... Look up the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Freeway">Somerset Freeway</a>  It's pretty interesting.  On another note, I'll have to get a picture of the signage on the new Market Street Bridge in Williamsport.  Three different routes in three different directions are all routed on one side of the freeway.  I-180 West, US-220 South and US-15 North.... It's pretty funny to see.

 

An interchange is being constructed with the Pennsylvania Turnpike that will re-route Interstate 95 over to the New Jersey Turnpike at that point.

It's amazing that they expect people to decipher that while driving.

That's what happens when you build a road in the hollers!