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JREwing78:
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--- Quote from: Ted$8roadFan on November 13, 2022, 06:47:05 AM ---No control city on I-469?
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There's never been one. Though it's been argued by some (myself included) that Toledo would be a good fit, or at least Ohio. In Fort Wayne for some reason INDOT isn't interested in signing any of that.
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Ideally, I-469 would show both Toledo and Lima as control cities, but at least mentioning Toledo would be helpful.
amroad17:
--- Quote from: JREwing78 on November 13, 2022, 03:05:49 PM ---
--- Quote from: tdindy88 on November 13, 2022, 09:40:51 AM ---
--- Quote from: Ted$8roadFan on November 13, 2022, 06:47:05 AM ---No control city on I-469?
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There's never been one. Though it's been argued by some (myself included) that Toledo would be a good fit, or at least Ohio. In Fort Wayne for some reason INDOT isn't interested in signing any of that.
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Ideally, I-469 would show both Toledo and Lima as control cities, but at least mentioning Toledo would be helpful.
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I could see Toledo posted on an auxiliary sign for Exit 315 on I-69 NB. The lack of a control city on the main sign is not a new thing for motorists in the Ft. Wayne area.
Where the control cities need to be posted are at the I-469/US 24 (21) and I-469/US 30 (19) interchanges. Ever since I-469 (before that, IN 469) opened, US 24 and US 30 have not had control cities posted. It felt as if there was an abyss east of Ft. Wayne. US 24 should have Toledo posted and US 30 should have either Van Wert or Lima posted. There should also be a post interchange mileage sign on both US 24 and US 30 posting the distances to Defiance and Toledo (for US 24) and to Van Wert and Lima (for US 30).
silverback1065:
--- Quote from: tdindy88 on November 13, 2022, 09:40:51 AM ---
--- Quote from: Alps on November 12, 2022, 07:16:07 PM ---they could plan some font size work too
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Yeah, occasionally the font's a little wonky. You see this a few times in Indiana but most signs are like the I-69/I-465 ones shown above.
--- Quote from: Ted$8roadFan on November 13, 2022, 06:47:05 AM ---No control city on I-469?
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There's never been one. Though it's been argued by some (myself included) that Toledo would be a good fit, or at least Ohio. In Fort Wayne for some reason INDOT isn't interested in signing any of that.
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the us 24 exit should say toledo and detroit but it says nothing :-D
JoePCool14:
--- Quote from: tdindy88 on November 12, 2022, 01:04:53 PM ---Since it was all snowy outside today I'm staying home and looking at different road plans. I took a look at the plans today over the new I-465/I-69 interchange on the northeast side and was curious with how they were planning on signing things along that corridor. No real big surprises but certainly a lot of large one-arrow-per-lane signs. At least the one thing with Indiana is they don't do a bad job on these. With this combined with the future plans for I-465 on the northwest side there's going to a lot of these large signs on the north end of 465 in the future. Also with these plans, Hello Evansville! I-69 gets signed for I-465 and Evansville is the control city from the northeast side of Indianapolis. Which is fair since Fort Wayne will be signed at the junction on the southwest side.
This makes me wonder if the in the future we'll be seeing both Fort Wayne and Evansville at the east side I-70 interchange with I-465 going by current trends. Likewise on the south side with both 69 and 74 combined will we see dual controls, Peoria and Evansville for the westbound and Cincinnati and Fort Wayne for the eastbound.
More importantly for some people, the north end of I-465 is going to be wide and impressive when all of this is done.
But not to worry, not all is perfect, here's a scan of a planned new sign at I-69 and I-469 on the north side of Fort Wayne (I guess they're planning some lane work up there.)
Nice seeing the Lansing (ControlCityFreak was mentioning a lack of pull-throughs on I-69 in Fort Wayne) but the I-469/US 24-30 sign lacks any new control city.
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Of course the 3/4ths error makes another appearance. :pan: Again, it goes to show how it needs to be rewritten for 2023. Looking beyond that, there's a few oddities in the 465 plans. Stay Right instead of Keep Right. Incorrect amount of yellow for the second 37A sign. Copious amounts of white/green space on some of the signs. Overall, they look good, but I wish 465 had controls posted.
silverback1065:
--- Quote from: JoePCool14 on November 14, 2022, 09:58:52 AM ---
--- Quote from: tdindy88 on November 12, 2022, 01:04:53 PM ---Since it was all snowy outside today I'm staying home and looking at different road plans. I took a look at the plans today over the new I-465/I-69 interchange on the northeast side and was curious with how they were planning on signing things along that corridor. No real big surprises but certainly a lot of large one-arrow-per-lane signs. At least the one thing with Indiana is they don't do a bad job on these. With this combined with the future plans for I-465 on the northwest side there's going to a lot of these large signs on the north end of 465 in the future. Also with these plans, Hello Evansville! I-69 gets signed for I-465 and Evansville is the control city from the northeast side of Indianapolis. Which is fair since Fort Wayne will be signed at the junction on the southwest side.
This makes me wonder if the in the future we'll be seeing both Fort Wayne and Evansville at the east side I-70 interchange with I-465 going by current trends. Likewise on the south side with both 69 and 74 combined will we see dual controls, Peoria and Evansville for the westbound and Cincinnati and Fort Wayne for the eastbound.
More importantly for some people, the north end of I-465 is going to be wide and impressive when all of this is done.
But not to worry, not all is perfect, here's a scan of a planned new sign at I-69 and I-469 on the north side of Fort Wayne (I guess they're planning some lane work up there.)
Nice seeing the Lansing (ControlCityFreak was mentioning a lack of pull-throughs on I-69 in Fort Wayne) but the I-469/US 24-30 sign lacks any new control city.
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Of course the 3/4ths error makes another appearance. :pan: Again, it goes to show how it needs to be rewritten for 2023. Looking beyond that, there's a few oddities in the 465 plans. Stay Right instead of Keep Right. Incorrect amount of yellow for the second 37A sign. Copious amounts of white/green space on some of the signs. Overall, they look good, but I wish 465 had controls posted.
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what's the 3/4ths error? :hmmm:
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