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More Oregon sign goofs
xonhulu:
--- Quote from: AlpsROADS on March 13, 2010, 05:36:58 PM ---Guys, there's gonna be some good discussion about the topic, so I moved road enthusiasts working in the road industry to its own topic.
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Good move, but I kind of enjoy watching these discussions evolve off the original topic into something completely different.
I have some more sign oddities to post, mostly from Oregon, but I think I'll start a new topic and let this one wilt. Or better yet, let it wander into becoming a discussion on wandering topics...
Alps:
Nah, keep the Oregon goodies coming here. The reason I moved the other discussion is so that people would see it and not just mark read because they're not interested in Oregon.
xonhulu:
--- Quote from: AlpsROADS on March 14, 2010, 11:41:45 PM ---Nah, keep the Oregon goodies coming here. The reason I moved the other discussion is so that people would see it and not just mark read because they're not interested in Oregon.
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Your wish is my command:
While construction was taking place to reconfigure Jasper Road (part of Springfield-Creswell Highway #222) to intersect with the new Lane County-built Bob Straub Parkway, these signs displaying unsigned OR 222 were erected. When the project was completed, down they came. I doubt OR 222 will ever be signed, as the highway consists of 2 disconnected segments and ODOT relinquished its northermost segment to local maintenance. So this might have been the only time we'll ever see OR 222 shields.
These are new. I saw 6 of these round OR 99E shields between Harrisburg and Halsey yesterday. A little taste of New Jersey on the left coast.
One of my favorite recent oddities: a cut-out modern Oregon route shield! Posted in Molalla when traffic was detoured through town to accommodate a highway reconstruction project. I like this look, and I wish this were the norm, if we can't get a return to the vintage eagle shield cut-outs. I think I've seen some of these before, but I can't place any of the other times or places.
agentsteel53:
sweet 213!
this 58 was in a construction zone on I-5
KEK Inc.:
The cut-out signs are awesome. I really hope this becomes a new standard. I'm not a big fan of the empty black voids used in most state and federal routes. I grew up in California, and I became accustomed to the cut-out signs that are still used today, even on federal highways like US-101/US-395/US-50/US-6/US-95/US-97/US-199.
Honestly, Oregon roads are one of the worst designed in the country. I'm not a big fan of the road hardware they use. For example, on a wet Portland freeway, wouldn't it be sensible to add Bott's Dots or at the very least reflectors? At night after a normal day of drizzle, it can be rather challenging to see the lane.
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