CBS2 Investigates: Pricey Project Left Inaccurate Signs Along The Palisades Parkway

FORT LEE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- Confusing and potentially wrong road signs were installed on a major New Jersey parkway over a year ago. The project cost tens of thousands of dollars.

It was a much needed project to repave the New Jersey portion of the Palisades Parkway. A noticeably large number of road signs were installed at that time, some are clearly misleading.

As you approach Exit 1 southbound there are not one, not two, but three signs alerting drivers that the exit is shaped like a u-turn, but the sign is completely wrong.

As CBS2's Meg Baker reported, a Google Maps view shows that the road does not curve around 180 degrees as the sign suggests.

The signs should have indicated a curve right and left, but going forward.

"I agree with you. Looking back it may be confusing to some," New Jersey Palisades Interstate Park Commission Assistant Superintendent Chris Szeglin said.

Szeglin said the same signs were used at each exit no matter the curve of the roadway.

"Maybe at Exit 1 it doesn't apply, but at Exit 2, 3 does make full looping curves, Exit 2 better example, does make a 3 quarter degree revolution," Szeglin said.

Szeglin went on to say that the signs are there to warn motorists to use caution.

"The state chose to provide extra signage, draw attention really, for the safety of the motorists," he said, "Exit 1 northbound may, or does, again it's Exit 1 southbound, probably not."

Szeglin told CBS2's Baker that she would have to speak to the state designer about why three signs indicate that an exit does something that it doesn't actually do.

State transportation officials who ran the project would not go on camera, but said they would be sending a crew out to make sure the signs are correct.

They also commented on the price tag.

"Some signs were replaced at a cost of approximately $92,000," NJDOT said in a statement.

CBS will continue to demand answers on how this happened and why the signs have not been fixed for more than a year.