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#11

Off-Topic / Re: Changing one letter of a t...

Last post by kphoger - Today at 02:35:24 PM

Time for another round.

National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Tour overpass cloverleaf interchanges — a boring roadmeet
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Psychedelic-looking toads on Street View — here's one, but not on GSV
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Lane-spitting redux — there were two many individual expectoration-themed threads
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Oh yeah, it's definitely summer snow — up in the mountains, of course
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Google removes traffic and bars from satellite imagery — Google doesn't drink or drive!
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Illinois State Police correct common diving misconceptions — most of them were about sharks
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► BOOBS! — a clickbait topic if I ever saw one
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► B.S. Bicycle Route System — can you believe this, what a crock...
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Weird National Park Unlit Highway Signage — umm, actually, is there any other kind?
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► FBI Web Site - Disappearing Structures — an answer to the actual OP:  the bridges were stolen
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Rage Road Signs — here's one
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Massage Signs — here's one
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► What is a "petal surfaced road"? — here's one
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Your first flinch? — a thread about playing 'chicken'
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Mystery router — turns out it was a D-Link EXO AX5400
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► naught on Street View — it's just blank
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► 60 years ago this week, the Interstate Highway System was corn — and a little bit of wheat
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► State/Province with most expensive highway system? — actually sounds like a good thread idea
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► The U.S. Interstate Highways, Raked — no more dangerous wet leaves on the pavement

#12

Mountain West / Re: Interstate 11

Last post by kkt - Today at 02:34:26 PM

The entire initial construction of the Interstate highway system was done in segments - sometimes with scores or hundreds of miles between segments. How soon we forget.

I can remember 40+ years ago when the government was able to get a lot more new Interstate highway mileage built per year compared to the far slower pace common now.

Everyone who had chargeable Interstate mileage was eager to get that 90% Federal funding contribution. 

Yep.  Also there was the tendency to build the easier, less controversial parts first.

#13

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by kkt - Today at 02:32:45 PM

When there's one stripe or dashed line, it should be at the center.  When there are two stripes, the center of the road should be between them.

How is this possible?

To clarify my question:  In order to both have a single line centered and also have two parallel lines straddle the center, isn't a three-head sprayer still required?

With typical two-head sprayers, you end up with something like this, where the single dashed line is off of center.

Perhaps it would require a 3-head sprayer or perhaps it would be possible to move one operating sprayhead so it was centered over the middle of the road.  That is what I would like on an aesthetic level.

#14

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Ohio

Last post by TempoNick - Today at 02:29:04 PM

The Turnpike was strategically placed to avoid population centers in an effort to whisk vehicles across the state as quickly as possible. That's why it seems so desolate. I don't even feel like I'm in Ohio when I am on it. The only other major road that makes me feel like that is the Portsmouth Bypass which makes me think I'm in Kentucky.

All major arteries through Ohio should have been designed that way. Exit I-70/71/75/76/77 to a local freeway system.

#15

Northeast / Re: New York

Last post by baugh17 - Today at 01:19:27 PM

I noticed region 8 put up this State Speed Limit 55 sign on US 9 in Wappinger: https://maps.app.goo.gl/PqHhQKXDCCGYGWbZ7

Isn't that font 1970s era? When did they stop using it? I wonder how such an old sign just popped up out of nowhere. Not that I'm complaining, people drive way too slow on this section (and guess which lane they pick)

That style speed limit sign...Late 1980s.  It's not unusual for NYSDOT to "replace in kind" with older signs and route markers.  I've seen instances where NYSDOT has installed replacements that are more than 30 years old.

#16

Northeast / Re: PennDOT plans Erie Bayfron...

Last post by 74/171FAN - Today at 01:18:28 PM

PennDOT - District 1 News: Bayfront Parkway Closure Scheduled to Start After Labor Day

#17

Northeast / Re: Massachusetts

Last post by bob7374 - Today at 01:12:27 PM

Notice to Proceed was given to the sign replacement contract for MA 140 between Freetown and Taunton on July 2. I've updated information on this and all other current MassDOT sign replacement projects at:
https://malmeroads.net/mass21c/signprojectlist.html

#18

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Update on I-69 Extension i...

Last post by Rick Powell - Today at 12:53:32 PM

Those piers are for the viaducts that will carry I-69 over the Ohio River floodplain. That area in particular is very prone to flooding whenever there is prolonged rainfall or spring snowmelt, so it makes sense to elevate the highway so it's not shut down every spring when the river floods.

It's not so much the potential flooding on the I-69 pavement that requires a bridge section in the floodplain; INDOT could have built the bridge approaches on a high fill far above the potential flood elevation, and probably cheaper than a land bridge. But by doing so, they would likely cause backwater that would endanger the surrounding properties during flood events. Meeting the floodplain permit requirements for design and construction of I-69 was likely the biggest influence on what is being built.

#19

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by paulthemapguy - Today at 12:35:52 PM

July 11: Post the junction of a US highway with a 1 in the tens place and a different US highway with a 1 in the tens place.

Let's quote a post where I wrote the criteria correctly...heh heh.

US12 and US18 in Cambridge, WI


WI-US12-US18ENA by Paul Across America, on Flickr

US13 and US17 in Windsor, NC


NC-US17-US64NS by Paul Across America, on Flickr

US11 and US15 near Duncannon, PA


IMG_6090 by Paul Across America, on Flickr

The next few days:
July 12: Post the junction of a US highway with a 1 in the tens place and a US highway with a 2 in the tens place.
July 13: Post the junction of a US highway with a 1 in the tens place and a US highway with a 3 in the tens place.
July 14: Post the junction of a US highway with a 1 in the tens place and a US highway with a 4 in the tens place.

#20

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by kphoger - Today at 12:18:33 PM

When there's one stripe or dashed line, it should be at the center.  When there are two stripes, the center of the road should be between them.

How is this possible?

To clarify my question:  In order to both have a single line centered and also have two parallel lines straddle the center, isn't a three-head sprayer still required?

With typical two-head sprayers, you end up with something like this, where the single dashed line is off of center.