How BGS and other signs are made

[Mergingtraffic]

I found this on Youtube, a video how signs are made at the MoDot sign shop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qqPQ1Rgieg&feature=related

I always wondered how the BGS-Structural signs were made. 

One thing I noticed, MO seems to "stick" their letters on BGSes while CT nails their's on.

[xcellntbuy]

That was great!  Thank you.

[KEVIN_224]

NOTE: No Clearview on that big "Joplin" sign! Ha ha!

[hbelkins]

Interesting. In Kentucky, each district has its own sign shop, and guide signs (a/k/a panel signs or BGSes) are made by a contractor.

[DaBigE]

Interesting. In Kentucky, each district has its own sign shop, and guide signs (a/k/a panel signs or BGSes) are made by a contractor.

Wisconsin is similar...each region has its own sign shop, although the sign shops are now mostly for warehousing and distribution. Badger State Industries (a.k.a. the prison system) makes most of the ground signs (WisDOT Type II), and a contractor makes the BGSs (WisDOT Type I). Another contractor handles all of the blue services signs along the freeways.

...One thing I noticed, MO seems to "stick" their letters on BGSes while CT nails their's on.

Wisconsin's are all riveted.

[Roadsguy]

Not one Clearview sign that I could see.

[Special K]

Iowa: one central sign shop for Type A (aluminum sheet) signs, contractors for Type B (extruded aluminum BGS).  Riveted legend.  I think the sign shop can only provide signs for sign replacement, as new construction projects must be contracted.

[Scott5114]

Not one Clearview sign that I could see.

Well, yes, it's MoDOT. As far as I can remember they have yet to install any Clearview at all.

(That is not to say there is no Clearview in Missouri–Kansas City has installed some wayfinding signs downtown with it–but MoDOT strongly favors FHWA series!)

[cu2010]

Not one Clearview sign that I could see.

That Adopt-a-Highway sign at 2:52 had Clearview letters...

[Scott5114]

Not one Clearview sign that I could see.

That Adopt-a-Highway sign at 2:52 had Clearview letters...

No, it didn't. MoDOT Adopt-a-Highway signs use a non-standard sans-serif font. I dunno what it is, but it's not Clearview.

[cu2010]

Looked like Clearview to me (at least the sponsor part)...but I'm probably wrong.

[J N Winkler]

I am not aware of a single MoDOT experiment with Clearview.  As Scott5411 says, expressway wayfinding signs in Kansas City use Clearview, but the scheme was developed and is administered by Kansas City, not MoDOT.

I loathe MoDOT's use of non-FHWA series on litter signs and the "Progress as promised" series of construction project identification signs.  (For that matter, I loathe the use of non-FHWA series in the sunflower design on Kansas' litter signs as well as on toll-road shields in general.)  Arialgrovertesk indeed.

[hbelkins]

Looked like Clearview to me (at least the sponsor part)...but I'm probably wrong.

First few times I saw them in the wild in Missouri, I thought they were Clearview.

[Central Avenue]

Not one Clearview sign that I could see.

That Adopt-a-Highway sign at 2:52 had Clearview letters...

No, it didn't. MoDOT Adopt-a-Highway signs use a non-standard sans-serif font. I dunno what it is, but it's not Clearview.

I asked a friend of mine who's an aspiring graphic designer. He identified it as Abadi.

(If anyone still doubts that it's not Clearview: Look at the "G". Clearview's G doesn't have a spur.)