Misspelled 710 Freeway Sign Taken Down
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — One of the busiest streets in all of Los Angeles is apparently suffering from an identity crisis.
For what was reportedly a few days earlier this month, a freeway sign installed above Interstate 710 was displayed with Olympic Boulevard misspelled with an "I" in place of the "Y", according to The Associated Press.
The large green exit sign was covered with a tarp and eventually removed, but not before drivers snapped and tweeted photographs of the mega-typo earlier this month, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Twitter user and Times Assistant Managing Editor Shelby Grad posted an image of the misspelling Nov. 10 before it was covered.
Epic Caltrans typo fail on the 710 #mydayinla pic.twitter.com/4ZCLXoWUGm
— Shelby Grad (@shelbygrad) November 10, 2014
Caltrans spokeswoman Kelly Markham told The Times that the subcontractor will pay for a new sign.
The sign was one of many improvements underway on the freeway as part of a $120-million pavement rehabilitation project stretching from the Los Angeles River Bridge to the 10 Freeway. The project includes median barrier upgrades, shoulder widening and the installation of fiber optics and precast concrete panels and slabs.
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