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Spelling error on road marker at Mayfield and 410 blamed on sign shop, but corrected version coming
Nov 02, 2007 04:30 AM
Jim Wilkes
Staff Reporter
It's their way or the highway.
Or is it "highyway"?
That's the only choice facing motorists exiting the new stretch of Highway 410 at Mayfield Rd. in the north end of Brampton.
Mayfield gets the correct spelling treatment on two signs – one on the Brampton side of Mayfield, the other on the Caledon side – but when it's time to point the way westward to Highway 10, spelling veers off into its own little world.
HIGHYWAY.
So how does something like that happen?
Twice. On separate signs.
"Oh, my gosh, that's unbelievable," said Jimmy Chong, highway engineer and project manager for Peel public works.
He said the signs were installed on region land by Ontario's transportation ministry.
They also put an extra "L" in a Sandalwood Parkway sign along nearby Heart Lake Rd.
But that problem was fixed with a bit of tape plastered over the offending letter.
"Highyway" needs something more than a patch.
Ministry project consultant Bryan Speedie said he didn't want to point fingers, but put the blame on a government sign shop in Toronto.
"The signs weren't originally part of the contract and when we opened the ramp at Mayfield, people didn't know which way to go," he said.
"We ordered signs, but when they came in they were spelled wrong. It was either put them up that way or not put them up at all."
He said new signs would be going up in the next day or so.
"When you see something like this, you wonder if the sign shop should have spell-check," he said.