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The Department of Transportation makes hundreds of signs at its special sign shop in Warwick every year.

Most don’t contain typos.

Political Scene learned last week there was a little problem with several “Handicapped Access” signs installed outside the Department of Transportation’s Smith Hill headquarters.

Three small rectangular signs attached to lamp posts along Smith Street and two along the DOT parking lot direct handicapped residents to “Two Capital Hill.”

Miss the typo? DOT’s address, as noted in the large blue sign near the signs, is 2 Capitol Hill.

“Obviously, there’s a typo there,” DOT spokesman Charles St. Martin told Political Scene on Friday. “Now that it’s been brought to our attention, we’ll correct it.”

The signs were put up about a month ago, St. Martin said, to improve the visibility of handicapped access at the DOT building.

He called Political Scene again Friday to say that a maintenance crew planned to fix the signs the next day. It wasn’t clear if they’d simply patch over the one letter or replace the signs.

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