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New U.S. Highways? No, ODOT sign goofs.
xonhulu:
--- Quote from: andytom on February 28, 2010, 03:05:51 AM ---Recent sign contract gone horribly wrong? The 202's were OR sheilds 2.5 yrs ago (the last time I drove the Hood-To-Coast route which follow all but 10 miles of OR-202).
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I'd guess it's very recent. I'm pretty sure I was on OR 103 last fall and the shields weren't there. The US 202's were only on westbound 202. They added a lot of these assemblies; I don't remember it being signed so frequently before, and it isn't signed that generously on eastbound 202 even now.
Here's another recent error involving OR 202. This time, it's the right shield. However, we're not on 202 here: this is actually OR 47 just past the Apiary Road junction, and 202 doesn't begin until Mist which is still 7 miles ahead, as the sign says.
andytom:
This one could be hwy vs. route confusion. The Nehalem Hwy (hwy 102) follows OR-47 through Vernonia to Mist, then OR-202 to Astoria. Road contracts and plans, in OR, are always done based on hwy numbers, not route numbers so the contractor may have just thought it was all the same route number.
--Andy
xonhulu:
--- Quote from: andytom on February 28, 2010, 03:06:10 PM ---This one could be hwy vs. route confusion. The Nehalem Hwy (hwy 102) follows OR-47 through Vernonia to Mist, then OR-202 to Astoria. Road contracts and plans, in OR, are always done based on hwy numbers, not route numbers so the contractor may have just thought it was all the same route number.
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That's logical. This isn't a very common error. I've been trying to think if I've ever seen an incorrect route number posted in Oregon, and except for a couple of cases where 99 and 99E/W were mixed up, I couldn't think of any.
The US/state shield confusion is much more widespread in Oregon, and I guess more understandable. Oregon invites the route/highway confusions with their dual system. While on that trip yesterday, I saw several maps where US 101 BUS was labeled as "OR 105," using its highway number instead. Not that that wouldn't be a good idea, as that mostly rural route is hardly a "business" route.
xonhulu:
--- Quote from: xonhulu on February 28, 2010, 03:37:04 PM ---I've been trying to think if I've ever seen an incorrect route number posted in Oregon, and except for a couple of cases where 99 and 99E/W were mixed up, I couldn't think of any.
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I did think of one other example: when OR 282 was initially signed in Odell, one assembly referred to it as OR 281 -- nearby, but not the same route. The error lasted about a year, but was eventually fixed. The two errors involving 99 instead of 99E near Jefferson, and 99W instead of 99 in Roseburg, are still unfixed, AFAIK.
Bickendan:
99 on 99E near Jefferson? On I-5? I haven't noticed that one.
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