Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in street signs One intersection in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is screaming for some literary attention. Just off Highway 115 is the intersection pictured above. Ironically enough, the two signs — referring to the two characters in, respectively, The Adventures of Tom Saywer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, who …
No Parking signs can be a good way to keep roads clear — but only if they’re used correctly. Below are examples of things you should and shouldn’t do when installing or passing by No Parking signs. Don’t, for example, ignore them. Don’t install private signs that impersonate official signs. And, if you must, a …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 – Grand Rapids is still reeling from the shooting death of 42-year-old Lance Byers, but it seems that justice is around the corner. On February 21, at the intersection of Lafayette and State Street, Byers was shot and killed by 24-year-old Jeannette Davis, who was traveling down the same road with …
We here at MyParkingSign, now hosted at SmartSign’s new and improved site, are happy to report that we use signs for all sorts of things. Traffic signs, it turns out, are very useful as chairs, as one Boris Bally, metallurgist and artist, can attest. SmartSign has been working with Boris for years, and we are …
Comedy Central, and the worldwide Internets, report on a disturbing trend in California traffic signage. Installed along I-5 are signs like the ones below. Clearly not offensive at all, right?