AARoads: Gothic vs. Clearview Page

[mightyace]

*  99-011-RC1U-C:  Truck rollover signs plus guide signing for Exit 31 (Lansdale), Exit 44 (Quakertown), Exit 95 (Pocono), Exit 105 (Wilkes-Barre), Exit 115 (Wyoming Valley) (all but the first of these exits being on the Northeast Extension)

All of those exits are on the Northeast Extension. Exit 31 is the first exit on the extension north of I-276 and has the distinction of being the only exit on the turnpike to keep its number when converting over to mileage-based exit numbers. [The sequential numbering system had 1-30 for the main pike and 31-39 for the extension.]

I drove through exits 31, 44, and 95 on the NE extension just over two weeks ago.

[J N Winkler]

Yup--my mistake--the plans included a sign reading "[I-276] 9 MI" and I read "276" as "279."

[exit322]

Looks like I-77 between CAK and Akron is getting new signs with Clearview.

[codyg1985]

There are some BGS signs on I-65 in North Alabama that now use Clearview.

[codyg1985]

There are also street signs in Wetumpka, AL that use Clearview:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Wetumpka,+Alabama&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.956929,79.101563&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FSaP8AEdr7bc-g&split=0&ll=32.537701,-86.205618&spn=0.003342,0.004828&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=32.537742,-86.205718&panoid=30ZAn5D-HoM8UgUE-sSLiw&cbp=12,262.23,,0,-8.5

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Wetumpka,+Alabama&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.956929,79.101563&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FSaP8AEdr7bc-g&split=0&t=h&layer=c&cbll=32.519862,-86.210481&panoid=CLGkr2pG1d1eid_oZqT-lA&cbp=12,40.68,,0,5&ll=32.520039,-86.209427&spn=0.006685,0.009656&z=17

Not sure if they are ALDOT installed or City of Wetumpka installed.

[froggie]

Yes.  PTC practice, which is followed in only a few PennDOT districts at the moment, is to use Clearview for all text legend except route marker digits.

Either they're contractor errors, or a few PennDOT districts are starting to use Clearview for standalone route shields now too.  Don't recall where offhand, but I have a few photo examples back at the house.

[J N Winkler]

It's possible the contractors have been fabricating the signs as drawn.  There have been a few PennDOT signing plans with Clearview route marker digits, though this error is still pretty uncommon.

[PAHighways]

Either they're contractor errors, or a few PennDOT districts are starting to use Clearview for standalone route shields now too.  Don't recall where offhand, but I have a few photo examples back at the house.

I have pictures from ones around Columbia and saw some back in March in Adams County.

[PAHighways]

It's possible the contractors have been fabricating the signs as drawn.

The type of signs Froggie is talking about have no PennDOT logo at the bottom that I recall.  So they could have come from anywhere since Harrisburg usually brands their creations.  There are numerous examples of this contractor signage near me like white-on-blue and red-on-white information signage and irregularly-shapped US and PA shields.

[J N Winkler]

The type of signs Froggie is talking about have no PennDOT logo at the bottom that I recall.  So they could have come from anywhere since Harrisburg usually brands their creations.  There are numerous examples of this contractor signage near me like white-on-blue and red-on-white information signage and irregularly-shapped US and PA shields.

I hadn't read Froggie's post closely and assumed he was talking about guide-sign shields.  This is an example of what I had in mind (District 1 in this case):

[NJRoadfan]

A note about the New Jersey entry. NJDOT is NOT using Clearview from what I've seen. The blurry example provided looks like a traffic light street sign installed by Somerset County DPW. They have been using a Clearview like font (it might actually be Transport Medium) for a few years in that application. NJDOT (along with the NJ Turnpike Authority) has stuck with the current FHWA fonts on their overhead signs.

[JMoses24]

On I-75/71 in Covington, Kentucky, there is new exit signage for exit 191 that uses the new Clearview. I'll try to snap a picture of it later this weekend...

[ctsignguy]

One clarification if i may....

Jeff at the ConnDOT Sign Shop did tell me that while Clearview is being implemented on future signage, that the signs on the Merritt Parkway are NOT done in Clearview, but a similar (different) font developed specifically for the Merritt...

[bugo]

WIDTH = 800!!

On I-75/71 in Covington, Kentucky, there is new exit signage for exit 191 that uses the new Clearview. I'll try to snap a picture of it later this weekend...

Courtesy of Tim Brown:

[codyg1985]

WIDTH = 800!!

On I-75/71 in Covington, Kentucky, there is new exit signage for exit 191 that uses the new Clearview. I'll try to snap a picture of it later this weekend...

Courtesy of Tim Brown:

Is that sign in Ohio? Mile marker in the middle shows that it is just north of the Ohio River.

[JMoses24]

That's I-75/71 just south of the merge in Cincinnati. I believe KYTC installed it.

I'm thinking KYTC is going through as they replace signs, and implementing the Clearview font. There are Clearview font signs at two additional locations:

*The Exit 189 gore point sign (northbound only) is Clearview and was probably done at the same time as the new signs for exit 191
*Destination signs for exit 178 (KY 536/Mt Zion Road) are Clearview as well (specifically, the signs for Gateway Community/Technical College's Boone County campus)

[exit322]

Looks like it's in Ohio, but I'm pretty sure those are KY-supplied signs.  Ohio rarely, if ever, uses ALLCAPS in anything like the "5th STREET" on that sign.

[algorerhythms]

A minor comment about that page: in MD Clearview is also used on some non-interstate highways as new signs are put up (an example is on U.S. 40 Alternate in LaVale, where all the signs that were replaced during construction were replaced with Clearview signs).

[underorbit]

Just took a trip to the Canadian Maritimes. Nova Scotia seems to be implementing Clearview on all new highway signs, but I don't remember seeing any in New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island.

Also, there is at least one Clearview sign in Vermont, on I-91, stating "Brattleboro Next 2 Exits."

[myosh_tino]

Well it does display "a few exceptions are found", though I guess I could elaborate and say "only in Orange County on the 5"

I just read your entry regarding California on the Gothic vs Clearview Page.  As far as I know California is not currently using Clearview on any guide signs although it has been approved for future use.  IMO, the entry should read "No, though a few exceptions are found: I-5 in Orange County, city street signs"?

[US71]

Oklahoma uses Clearview statewide, on all new BGSes, as far as I know.

For the most part, yes. But I saw numerous examples this past weekend where the BGS's are Clearview, but the Exit gore signs are still FHWA on both the Muskogee & Cimarron Turnpikes.

[Alex]

I've received a couple of emails with updates recently on new areas that now Clearview now. Would anyone like to compile a new list for me to use to bring the font page up to date? Or, given that Clearview is more widely used now, should I bother to keep the page going?

[Crazy Volvo Guy]

Alabama is now using Clearview on all signs statewide.

There are some new Clearview BGSs here in the Shoals as well as a ton in Birmingham.

[national highway 1]

I've seen on Steve Alpert's site & on Street View that Clearview has been installed on new signs in Hawaii (I mean Oahu).

[jdb1234]

Alabama is now using Clearview on all signs statewide.

There are some new Clearview BGSs here in the Shoals as well as a ton in Birmingham.

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