ODOT Plots The Demise Of Oregon-Style Speed Signs?

[corco]

or on an old faded/worn sign.

Fortunately, the red circle is the first thing to fade in New Mexico.

[sp_redelectric]

If money were truly the issue, ODOT would be smarter to adopt this style:

Isn't it in the MUTCD that a speed limit within a circle indicates a metric (km/h) speed limit?

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/mutcd.html

[sp_redelectric]

The SPEED 45 sign just uses large, tightly kerned series D numerals (this is also my favorite style), and I've seen it as far south as Josephine and Jackson counties. Now if you wanted compressed/stretched to C-width E, Tigard has that horrendous looking design they've used in recent years. Here's an odd example on US-26 before the Vista Ridge tunnel on GSV: http://goo.gl/maps/grdke

Lately some contractors have put up a lot of goofy looking signs; I think that Speed 50 sign was one of them.  It's gone now, replaced with a Speed Limit sign.  Just like this sign on I-5 south of downtown that still stands.

[roadfro]

Isn't it in the MUTCD that a speed limit within a circle indicates a metric (km/h) speed limit?

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/mutcd.html

That very page mentions that the most recent MUTCD no longer references or contains designs for metric signs.

[agentsteel53]

and Oregon is probably the last state to want to go to 80mph.  maybe Hawaii... but that's due to the freeways all being relatively urban.  Oregon is just run by clowns who think that the bovine driving culture is something to be encouraged.

[sp_redelectric]

and Oregon is probably the last state to want to go to 80mph.

ODOT (or the OTC?) refused to raise speed limits the last time the Legislature prodded them, because rural stretches of I-84 were too far away from a hospital in the event of a wreck.  Yet, WSDOT has no problem with 70 MPH in the eastern part of the state, and Utah and Texas puts the higher speeds in the rural areas that are even further away from a hospital than most parts of I-84 and especially I-5.

[Tarkus]

and Oregon is probably the last state to want to go to 80mph.

ODOT (or the OTC?) refused to raise speed limits the last time the Legislature prodded them, because rural stretches of I-84 were too far away from a hospital in the event of a wreck.  Yet, WSDOT has no problem with 70 MPH in the eastern part of the state, and Utah and Texas puts the higher speeds in the rural areas that are even further away from a hospital than most parts of I-84 and especially I-5.

That, and we've had Dr. Haley Joel Kitzhaber as governor . . .

[Kacie Jane]

and Oregon is probably the last state to want to go to 80mph.  maybe Hawaii... but that's due to the freeways all being relatively urban.  Oregon is just run by clowns who think that the bovine driving culture is something to be encouraged.

Pretty sure this is not what you meant, but you say "bovine driving culture", and all I can think of is bovines being hit by drivers.

[agentsteel53]

Pretty sure this is not what you meant, but you say "bovine driving culture", and all I can think of is bovines being hit by drivers.

nope.  I mean driving without aim, ending up "accidentally" three-abreast due to a mix of mainly sheer indifference but also an old latent instinct for being in a closely packed herd.  in other words: bovine.