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Max Rockatansky:
CA 190 END:
190CAend by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr
JoePCool14:
I finished my clinch* of IL-53 this weekend and was able to grab this photo.
IL-53, South
* Technically I did, but technically I didn't. Anyone who's on the TM forum, a longer explanation is there.
paulthemapguy:
^I don't know why IDOT signed the southern end this way. Since end markers are never required, and there aren't any real standards associated with posting them, DOT's will play fast and loose with them. I always thought it odd that IL-53's southern end marker faces south at travelers driving toward the north. Just before you reach this end marker, you encounter this sign:
IL-053ST-I-55NG by Paul Drives, on Flickr
The signage makes it seem like the road stemming off to the left (west) is an access road to I-55 not associated with IL-53. But it is technically part of the route defined as IL-53. When I snapped the IL-53 end marker, I poked west to I-55 and took I-55 back home, just to be sure I got all of 53. I'm sure that stub you have remaining will be an easy enough detour to accomplish during your next trip south on I-55 :biggrin:
Flint1979:
Western terminus of M-58.
JoePCool14:
--- Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 06, 2023, 01:43:33 PM ---^I don't know why IDOT signed the southern end this way. Since end markers are never required, and there aren't any real standards associated with posting them, DOT's will play fast and loose with them. I always thought it odd that IL-53's southern end marker faces south at travelers driving toward the north. Just before you reach this end marker, you encounter this sign:
IL-053ST-I-55NG by Paul Drives, on Flickr
The signage makes it seem like the road stemming off to the left (west) is an access road to I-55 not associated with IL-53. But it is technically part of the route defined as IL-53. When I snapped the IL-53 end marker, I poked west to I-55 and took I-55 back home, just to be sure I got all of 53. I'm sure that stub you have remaining will be an easy enough detour to accomplish during your next trip south on I-55 :biggrin:
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That's what's so frustrating! It's such a short stub section, but my imperfect perfectionism just won't this go. Normally, yeah, you'd connect back to I-55. But I decided to head south towards Dwight via old US-66 after stopping for food at the gas station there. I never actually traversed this segment. I just think given all the signage, that stub isn't really part of IL-53.
Regarding END signs in general, Illinois tends to post them AT the intersection where the route ends. Whereas WisDOT will post them earlier, typically with a JCT sign for the intersecting route. That's why I think IL-53 really ends here.
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