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Alps:

--- Quote from: MisterSG1 on February 19, 2016, 11:10:01 PM ---As I usually end up down there every summer as my extended family is from there. I'd like to mention on a side note that Newfoundland has VERY poor signage. Get this, they use sequential exit numbers like NY on the Trans-Canada Highway, however, they have mile markers at every 10th kilometer. The exit numbers increase as you go east on the TCH, but the mile markers start from the east end in St. John's and ascend going west. Yes, I am absolutely serious.

I've only been on the Avalon Peninsula so I've never actually been on the drive across the island, but if you have any questions about St. John's, you can ask me if you want.

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What they consider an "exit" is fairly random, too. Some of them are cross streets. Many major cross streets aren't numbered, though. I've also found four different generations of signs kicking around. I'm sure their philosophy is only to replace as needed.

MisterSG1:

--- Quote from: Alps on February 20, 2016, 10:34:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: MisterSG1 on February 19, 2016, 11:10:01 PM ---As I usually end up down there every summer as my extended family is from there. I'd like to mention on a side note that Newfoundland has VERY poor signage. Get this, they use sequential exit numbers like NY on the Trans-Canada Highway, however, they have mile markers at every 10th kilometer. The exit numbers increase as you go east on the TCH, but the mile markers start from the east end in St. John's and ascend going west. Yes, I am absolutely serious.

I've only been on the Avalon Peninsula so I've never actually been on the drive across the island, but if you have any questions about St. John's, you can ask me if you want.

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What they consider an "exit" is fairly random, too. Some of them are cross streets. Many major cross streets aren't numbered, though. I've also found four different generations of signs kicking around. I'm sure their philosophy is only to replace as needed.

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I'm not exactly sure what their philosophy is, Alps. Most likely or not, I will be in Newfoundland this summer, and I figured I may actually try to do some road geeking of my own around the St. John's area. Trust me when I say this to everyone, it will be hard not to laugh at how poor their signage is. I could google street view it, but that's very time consuming, and well actual pics look better. A lot of it looks very unprofessional.

The mile markers showed up rather recently, like 2011 or so. Or maybe a few years before that. It was around the end of the 2000s, beginning of the 2010s....

Mind you, the only portion of the TCH I've ever drove on (or even seen for that matter) is the portion from Whitbourne eastward, where the freeway portion of the TCH begins.

Chris:
A 160 kilometre segment of the Trans-Labrador Highway will be paved from near Charlottetown to Red Bay. $ 63.8 million in funding has been announced for this paving project.

http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2016/exec/0627n03.aspx

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