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Started by TheStranger, January 19, 2016, 01:33:45 PM

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Quillz

Quote from: jakeroot on July 20, 2016, 08:45:50 AM
Quote from: Quillz on July 20, 2016, 01:39:16 AM
I was vacationing in Washington recently, I drove through the Spokane area and liked how US-2 had shields on the street blades. Looked quite nice, too. Don't have a pic handy, unfortunately.

Washington State is very consistent with their use of route numbers on street blades. That said, I'm pretty sure that Hwy 2 through Spokane is maintained by the city, so I'm happy to see Spokane following WSDOT's lead.
It was a green background, too. I figured it would just be a typical black square.


7/8

I could've sworn I've seen these in the GTA with regional route shields and numbers on the street blades, but I can't seem to find them on GSV  :-/

7/8

I guess I was looking in the wrong place :pan: I had a 4-month work term in St. Catharines, and I just remembered that they were really common there!

Here's the intersection of St. Paul St and Ontario St (white on blue):
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.1551933,-79.2457529,3a,37.5y,209.18h,98.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4b9qUvQ3n-Rbne-NjMujKA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


The intersection of Fourth Ave and Ontario St (blue on white):
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.1603705,-79.2555297,3a,30y,136.35h,100.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sw2pibDXQTsIXbNmq1v98Cg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


7/8

I also found some in my local area. I haven't seen any on the main street blades beside the stoplights. But they are sometimes on posts approaching the intersection.

Erbsville Rd at Columbia St in Waterloo:


King St E at Fairway Rd N in Kitchener:

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Thing 342

York County is the only area in HR that does this (consistently, at least; expecting consistency from the HR cities is an exercise in futility).  They have a small section for the route name on their blade: example

Takumi

Quote from: Thing 342 on July 24, 2016, 09:54:50 PM
York County is the only area in HR that does this (consistently, at least; expecting consistency from the HR cities is an exercise in futility).  They have a small section for the route name on their blade: example
There are a couple more Virginia counties that do that, to my knowledge. Chesterfield is one, having started doing so in the mid 1990s when they switched to the larger mixed-case blades. For awhile they were using it as a substitute for the white rectangle, but lately there have been new installations with both.
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7/8

I've seen a few street blades in Waterloo Region with numbers in circles and I was going to ask what these meant, but Google Maps helped me figure out that these numbers are for "Township Roads".

So for example, the street blade below is for "Township Rd 39". This was taken at Apple Grove Rd and King St in the Township of Woolwich, ON


national highway 1

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thenetwork

Colorado does it sporadically:  You will find a few in Glenwood Springs, and Grand Junction has just started to put US-6 shields on some of their overhead mast street signs.

There are a few in the Cleveland, OH area as well -- especially in suburban Independence and Brecksville.

Brian556

The current TxDOT standard:
(In Roanoke)


This oddity from Grand Prairie:
Using an interstate shield for auto trail (later a US highway) is absurd

WillWeaverRVA

Quote from: Takumi on July 24, 2016, 10:07:21 PM
Quote from: Thing 342 on July 24, 2016, 09:54:50 PM
York County is the only area in HR that does this (consistently, at least; expecting consistency from the HR cities is an exercise in futility).  They have a small section for the route name on their blade: example
There are a couple more Virginia counties that do that, to my knowledge. Chesterfield is one, having started doing so in the mid 1990s when they switched to the larger mixed-case blades. For awhile they were using it as a substitute for the white rectangle, but lately there have been new installations with both.

Powhatan seems to use both rectangles and route numbers in sign blades. Albemarle seems to do this too, as does Prince William on its horribly ugly, gigantic blue sign blades.
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US 89

On most of the newer signals done by UDOT, the route shield has been included on the street blade. Examples:
https://goo.gl/pLb2pE
https://goo.gl/QoHZkM

Is this a common thing across the country?

epzik8

Maryland has it on quite a few signals.
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jakeroot

We've had a thread on this before: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=17292.0

To answer your question, they've become more common. Washington has been posting shields on street blades for several decades. A reasonably old example is below.

Is this practice uncommon in Utah? Sometimes, I see "SR XX" or "SH XX" (i.e. route number written out) instead of the shield, usually when the street lacks a name.


US 89

Quote from: jakeroot on May 30, 2017, 07:58:27 PM
We've had a thread on this before: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=17292.0

Sorry, didn't see that thread.

Quote from: jakeroot on May 30, 2017, 07:58:27 PM
Is this practice uncommon in Utah? Sometimes, I see "SR XX" or "SH XX" (i.e. route number written out) instead of the shield, usually when the street lacks a name.

I had never seen any of these in Utah until a few years ago, when they started putting a bunch of them up.

And you're right, in Utah if the road doesn't have a name, it will say "US-XX" or "SR-XX". In New Mexico, the other place I had seen this, they will use both the shield and the written out number, like this. https://goo.gl/5jYDva

Alex

Quote from: roadguy2 on May 30, 2017, 08:44:16 PM
Quote from: jakeroot on May 30, 2017, 07:58:27 PM
We've had a thread on this before: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=17292.0

Sorry, didn't see that thread.

Went ahead and merged the two topics.

Delaware started using street blades with route markers on newer mast arm assemblies recently.

PHLBOS

Quote from: noelbotevera on January 20, 2016, 05:23:58 PM
Quote from: 74/171FAN on January 20, 2016, 05:54:35 AM
Philadelphia does this for PA 611 at some intersections:

Correctly:(at the US 13 intersection)
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0184516,-75.1491992,3a,75y,294.31h,97.61t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVYaxcrfq-_ZxUJhNg08iLg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

And still thinking of it as US 611(more often than not):
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9596228,-75.1619556,3a,75y,23.72h,94.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_PRrnNwANQIWm2PS3UfWuA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

And one for US 13 at PA 73:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0367376,-75.0407781,3a,37.5y,194.54h,87.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOSJajFQB7Fdd93EWetZvjQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
Beat me to the punch, but Philadelphia has wayyyy more than the PA 611 examples.

-PA 73, along the time it is on Cottman Avenue
-PA 3, I think along JFK Blvd., mostly near the 30th Street Station
-US 13 and US 30, and along the multiplex on Girard Avenue
-I-676 surface street section of 6th Street...might be wrong here
For a few years, the portion of Bartram Ave. that's part of PA 291 had route shields on the street blades.  The replacement signs no longer have such (the above-GSV is from 2008), even though the road is still part of PA 291.
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doorknob60

It's not very common in Idaho, but here's one on US-20/26 in downtown Boise. Note that the highway is following Broadway northbound, and then turns left (west) onto Front St (this street blade). So actually, east of this sign is not US-20/26, but since it's a one way road (you can't turn onto the non 20/26 part) it's not very misleading. This sign is new as of the last year or so (as far as I'm aware), after the construction of a new Broadway Ave. bridge.



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Rogers, AR (removed, but not replaced during the 49 transition)

I have more somewhere, but no time to look
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cl94

How did we get so far without mentioning West Virginia? They're EVERYWHERE in that state. If a route in WV has a number, the shield goes on the blade if WVDOT installed it.
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