The Frostian Sign

I drove by this road "sign" a couple of days ago and was intrigued. Most signs are traditional thin green rectangles with white reflective letters and this could not be more different. The amount of information is breathtaking and verges on overwhelming. The curious thing is that the sign erroneously suggests that if you follow the arrows you will eventually reach the listed towns.

The rural location of this sign and numerous road options reminds me of my favorite Robert Frost poem, "The Road Not Taken".

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Full text of the poem courtesy of Wikipedia