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Started by Mergingtraffic, September 02, 2015, 03:30:46 PM

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ixnay

Yes.

From http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/04/28/new-kosciuszko-bridge-open/

QuoteIt's the first of two spans that will replace the old 78-year-old structure connecting Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Maspeth, Queens over Newtown creek.

For now, traffic will go in both directions until the construction of the second span is complete, expected to be early 2020.

I'm surprised nobody on AARoads picked this up.  I found out about it at the bottom of page 122 of http://506sports.com/forum/index.php?topic=3523.3025 (registration necessary to access the mb there but it's free).

ixnay
The Washington/Baltimore/Arlington CSA has two Key Bridges, a Minnesota Avenue, and a Mannasota Avenue.


Alps

As of at least this morning, if not yesterday, all traffic is on the new bridge - there was a weeklong cutover.

The Ghostbuster

Does anyone plan to drive across the new bridge anytime soon? If so, snap some pictures.

dgolub

Quote from: The Ghostbuster on May 01, 2017, 04:17:47 PM
Does anyone plan to drive across the new bridge anytime soon? If so, snap some pictures.

Yes, I went across there yesterday.  I have pictures and will be uploading the first batch to my site at http://www.eastcoastroads.com later this evening.

mariethefoxy

Drove the Bronx River Parkway from Exit 9 to 1 the other day, most of the button copy is gone except for a few signs at Exit 6 (US 1 - Boston Road) also the Red button copy "PKWY ENDS" signs are gone as the signs for Exit 2 and 1 are all new.

Also the Throggs Neck Bridge has some lane shifts approaching the toll plaza, which im guess is preperation for the AET system which I cant wait for them to impliment since the fact the EZ Pass lanes still have that stupid bar that goes up and down kinda defeats the purpose of it saving time since it still slow to get thru.

Mergingtraffic

If anyone can get a clear pic of the still standing non-reflective button copy "Meeker/Morgan 1/2 Mile" sign please share it. 

PS...is this relic still there?

Untitled by mergingtraffic, on Flickr
I only take pics of good looking signs. Long live non-reflective button copy!
MergingTraffic https://www.flickr.com/photos/98731835@N05/

vdeane

Quote from: Mergingtraffic on May 08, 2017, 07:16:25 PM
If anyone can get a clear pic of the still standing non-reflective button copy "Meeker/Morgan 1/2 Mile" sign please share it. 
You mean this one (taken 6/28/14)?
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

Duke87

If you always take the same road, you will never see anything new.

AMLNet49

Quote from: mariethefoxy on May 04, 2017, 10:17:20 PM
Drove the Bronx River Parkway from Exit 9 to 1 the other day, most of the button copy is gone except for a few signs at Exit 6 (US 1 - Boston Road) also the Red button copy "PKWY ENDS" signs are gone as the signs for Exit 2 and 1 are all new.
Is it replace-in-kind or updated legends?

mariethefoxy

Looked like the same carbon copy reflective sign replacements the city has done on other parkways.

roadman65

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Quote from: Mergingtraffic on May 08, 2017, 07:16:25 PM
If anyone can get a clear pic of the still standing non-reflective button copy "Meeker/Morgan 1/2 Mile" sign please share it. 

PS...is this relic still there?

Untitled by mergingtraffic, on Flickr

Hope that car is yours cause if it someone else's than the owner is in big trouble.  Car strippers just love to steal car parts along many NYC expressways and parkways in a matter of minutes.

Anyway, that sign bridge needs new panels as it is so faded.  Plus the new signs do not use bridges as control points unless the other side of the crossing has no worthwhile points of interest to motorists,  I believe now Queens is being used elsewhere so it might fit in with I-676 and already Newark is being used further on down the line on I-95 so I imagine that will replace the classic Geo Washington Br as was not only used here but city wide.
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dgolub

Quote from: Mergingtraffic on May 08, 2017, 07:16:25 PM
If anyone can get a clear pic of the still standing non-reflective button copy "Meeker/Morgan 1/2 Mile" sign please share it. 

PS...is this relic still there?

Untitled by mergingtraffic, on Flickr

I passed by there on the bus two days ago, and yes, it's still there.  Unfortunately, the bus driver had a jacket with reflectors on it hanging on the back of his seat, and their reflection on the front window was winding up smack in the middle of all my pictures, so I gave up on photography after the first few miles.

D-Dey65

Quote from: The Ghostbuster on May 01, 2017, 04:17:47 PM
Does anyone plan to drive across the new bridge anytime soon? If so, snap some pictures.
There are a few of them in Wikimedia Commons right now;

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BklynQns_Expy_Kosciuszko_05.jpg

Which is how I found out it was opened.


dgolub

Quote from: D-Dey65 on May 15, 2017, 11:36:20 AM
Quote from: The Ghostbuster on May 01, 2017, 04:17:47 PM
Does anyone plan to drive across the new bridge anytime soon? If so, snap some pictures.
There are a few of them in Wikimedia Commons right now;

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BklynQns_Expy_Kosciuszko_05.jpg

Which is how I found out it was opened.

I've also got some on my site at http://www.eastcoastroads.com/states/ny/nyinter/i278.

D-Dey65


cpzilliacus

New York Post: Troopers are handing out traffic tickets at astronomical rate

QuoteThey're super troopers – at least when it comes to slinging traffic tickets.

QuoteState Police officers doled out 14,542 summonses to New York City motorists in the first four months of this year – an astonishing 759 percent increase from all of last year, when they scribbled just 1,692, records show.

QuoteThe troopers – blue-and-yellow fixtures on upstate highways but once a rarity on city streets – gave out only four tickets in here in 2015 and none in 2014.

QuoteIn December, Gov. Cuomo deployed 150 state cops to patrol city highways, bridges and tunnel crossings. Their presence achieved two Cuomo goals: to haul in revenue to state coffers, and rankle ­rival Mayor de Blasio, ­according to observers.
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Mergingtraffic

Is phase 1 of the Kew Gardens interchange complete?  Any traffic improvements in that area?
I only take pics of good looking signs. Long live non-reflective button copy!
MergingTraffic https://www.flickr.com/photos/98731835@N05/

vdeane

Quote from: D-Dey65 on May 15, 2017, 09:54:20 PM
Quote from: dgolub on May 15, 2017, 09:06:59 PM
I've also got some on my site at http://www.eastcoastroads.com/states/ny/nyinter/i278.
Yes I see that now.

Further up, what's with the blank spaces for the exit to Astoria Boulevard?

http://www.eastcoastroads.com/states/ny/nyinter/i278/fullsize/278e43_2.jpg


Probably used to have the shield for Truck I-278, from the era before trucks under 12'6'' were allowed on Grand Central Parkway.
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

D-Dey65

Quote from: vdeane on May 16, 2017, 08:07:44 PM
Probably used to have the shield for Truck I-278, from the era before trucks under 12'6'' were allowed on Grand Central Parkway.
Yeah, you know this has always bugged me. They still want trucks over 12'6" to leave at Astoria Boulevard, but the clearance beneath the BMT Astoria Line station is also 12'6." The bridge under the New York Connecting Railroad is also lower on the service roads than the main road, but they're all fairly high there... at least by New York standards.



D-Dey65

Quote from: cl94 on October 04, 2015, 07:59:45 PM
Quote from: M3019C LPS20 on October 04, 2015, 07:10:53 PM
Quote from: J Route Z on September 10, 2015, 06:45:47 PM
I hate the small "dept of transportation" logos on every sign, especially the big green highway ones. They look better without them.

From a collector's point of view, I think that label helps identify it as a genuine New York City sign and differentiates it from others manufactured for other municipalities in the country.


Just my two cents.

Lowers the resale value. Seriously. If someone tries to sell it, the logo gives it away as a stolen sign.
The MTA "stole" one of those signs and used them for the end of a subway line;

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlawn;_IRT_Jerome_Avenue;_Stop_Sign;_Trk_4.jpg

cl94, while I understand your reasoning behind rejecting them, I have to go with M3019C LPS20 on this one. The inscriptions give a localized uniqueness that a standard stop sign won't have. And New York City isn't the only government that used to do this. There were plenty of them with the inscription "N.C.D.P.W" (Nassau County Department of Public Works), "Suffolk County," Town of islip," "Town of Smithtown," etcetera.


Mergingtraffic

I only take pics of good looking signs. Long live non-reflective button copy!
MergingTraffic https://www.flickr.com/photos/98731835@N05/

mariethefoxy

that Hov lane on Staten Island needs to be Hov 2 instead of Hov 3 and should be time based like the one on the LIE

catsynth

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mrsman

Quote from: mariethefoxy on June 13, 2017, 12:11:30 AM
that Hov lane on Staten Island needs to be Hov 2 instead of Hov 3 and should be time based like the one on the LIE

Agreed.  Something also needs to happen with the last minute merge on the HOV lane as you approach the VN bridge*.  Currently, there are four lanes approaching eastbound at Hylan.  The left lane (HOV) is forced to merge into the second lane.  The second and third lane lead to the upper level of the bridge.  The fourth lane allows you the choice of either upper or lower level.  A fifth lane comes in from Hylan and forces you onto the lower level.  The entrance from Narrows Road forces you to merge onto either level.  The entrance from Lily Pond shrinks from 2 lanes to 1 and becomes the far right lane of the lower level entrance (without merging).

This should change to avoid the forced merge of the HOV lane.  The left three lanes (HOV + 2 regular lanes) should lead to the upper level.  Period.  The right lane, the lane from Hylan, and the lane from Lily Pond can form the three lanes of the lower level.  Narrows Road entrance will continue to merge as it currently does.

Basically, the only change I am proposing is to force the fourth lane onto the lower level, instead of allowing it a choice between upper and lower levels.  And now there will be room for the HOV lane to have its own lane on the bridge and not be forced to merge in.


* I understand that the DOT plans to eventually extend the HOV lane onto the bridge to make a continuous HOV lane from SIE to Bridge to Gowanus leading to the Battery Tunnel.  This would require reconfiguirng the upper level so that the left lane does not force an exit onto the Belt Pkwy.  I'm suggesting that my recommeded changes can be made without new concrete (just new painting) even without treatment for the bridge.

vdeane

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