Daily Picture Challenge!

[paulthemapguy]

April 19, 2018: Signs with 5 or more arrows pointing in the same direction.

Mobile, Alabama:

I have a 2014 photo of a similar sign assembly in the same area!  I didn't think to use it for this challenge


IMG_0291 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[bassoon1986]

5 down arrows at the previous north terminus of I-49 in Louisiana.



I never liked this exit for the fact that exit 18A never seemed like an exit from the sign. No angled arrows and no "exit only."  This is also a pretty bad choke point. 5 lanes down to 2



iPhone

[hotdogPi]

April 20, 2018: Today is 4/20. Post photos of two or more route shields where all of them can form 420 with a mathematical expression.

420 = 60 * 28 / √16

[paulthemapguy]

April 20, 2018: Today is 4/20. Post photos of two or more route shields where all of them can form 420 with a mathematical expression.

I mean, here's the classic 70 × 6 = 420


214 US191 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[US71]

April 20, 2018: Today is 4/20. Post photos of two or more route shields where all of them can form 420 with a mathematical expression.

210+210 =420

[TBKS1]

Challenge for April 21st: Beware of Hitchhikers signs. How many can we get?

Here's one I took just off of highway 5 on March 16th, 2018. This is only a few hundred feet away from the Geographical Center of Arkansas.



Beware of hitchhikers by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr

[Jim]

Challenge for April 21st: Beware of Hitchhikers signs. How many can we get?

I am not sure how specific this challenge is intended to be, but here's a variation from the westernmost reaches of the New York Thruway.  October 8, 2006.

[TBKS1]

Since I'm a math fan, I decided to suggest another challenge that's related to the challenge we did on Pi Day... except this isn't for any specific date.

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]



AR-161 by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr

[US71]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

[hotdogPi]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

[Jim]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.618033988749894848...  Skagway.  June 23, 2001.

[Eth]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.618033988749894848...  Graham, NC; taken, oh, about ten hours ago.

[jflick99]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.618033988749894848...  I-49 in Kansas City, MO

[OracleUsr]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.618033988749894848...  Graham, NC; taken, oh, about ten hours ago.

It's still there and still center-tabbed.

[Jim]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.61803398874989484820458683436563811772...  Collier County 894 at Immokalee Rd. in Naples, Florida.  July 18, 2016.

[csw]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.61803398874989484820458683436563811772... From US 67 in Park Hills, MO:

[Jim]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.61803398874989484820458683436563811772... From US 67 in Park Hills, MO:

...image removed from quote...

I think we should still continue from 848204... since the challenge says you need the next 2 or more digits.

[US 89]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.61803398874989484820458683436563811772...

[MCRoads]

AR-5 + AR-321 + AR-367 by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr

MY GOD!! How does this even happen??? This is a frankensign if I've ever seen one...

At least its a little better than the GINORMUS APLs just beyond this post... but still...

And then... there is the sign salads mixed in with the APLs... a big-honking cluster of shields, plaques, and arrows bolted together on posts like..... I cannot finish this simile...

4/23/17 ––> CHALLANGE: Post a pic of traffic barrels! Simple, right? NOT SO FAST!!! This challange is for special berrals, meaning unusual in some way. No, this doesn't mean:

-dented
-deformed
-knocked over

it means:

-Has an unusual reflective band pattern
-Unusual colors
-Strange shapes/sizes

Special exceptions:

-pics of the sand berrals (yellow berrals) with reflective bands are extra cool points (Illinois has them at median crossovers on freeways)

Good luck!!!

[Michael]

How about barrels used to hold up a stop sign?  The barrel on the ground is obviously deformed, but I didn't remember that about the picture when I thought of it.


Over the past few years as streets have been repaved in Auburn, the contractor has used wire strung through the handles of barrels to hold up road work signs, which can be seen in this Street View image.

[csw]

Challenge for April 22nd: The Golden Ratio! I'll start off with the first 3 digits/decimal places (1.61). The next person must play at least the next 2 or more decimal places, and so on. [First few thousand digits of the Golden Ratio]

1.61803398874989484820458683436563811772... From US 67 in Park Hills, MO:

...image removed from quote...

I think we should still continue from 848204... since the challenge says you need the next 2 or more digits.

Woops, apparently I didn't read that part. My fault.

[US71]

Does Barrel Bob count?

[TheArkansasRoadgeek]

Does Barrel Bob count?

Where do you find the things you photograph? Were you having too much of a good thing on 4/20? </sarcasm>

[US71]

Does Barrel Bob count?

Where do you find the things you photograph? Were you having too much of a good thing on 4/20? </sarcasm>

I travel a lot. BB is MODOT's safety mascot. He showed up at the I-49 dedication at Joplin in 2012.

[MCRoads]

Does Barrel Bob count?

Where do you find the things you photograph? Were you having too much of a good thing on 4/20? </sarcasm>

I travel a lot. BB is MODOT's safety mascot. He showed up at the I-49 dedication at Joplin in 2012.

Can I have him?<sarcasm>

How about barrels used to hold up a stop sign?  The barrel on the ground is obviously deformed, but I didn't remember that about the picture when I thought of it.


Over the past few years as streets have been repaved in Auburn, the contractor has used wire strung through the handles of barrels to hold up road work signs, which can be seen in this Street View image.

This is not what I had in mind, but it is unusual.

I may start a thread for these types of pics, "unusual barrels and cones"...