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Started by FLRoads, January 20, 2009, 04:01:44 PM

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Quote from: deanej on June 05, 2011, 12:14:35 PM
I was just in the Albany/Schenectady area yesterday and noticed that the DOT has taken to signing NY 890 as I-890.

Not entirely.  The signs on NY 5 now all reference I-890 after being NY 890 when the bridge first opened connecting 890 to NY 5.  This change was made a few years ago at least.  But there is still an "East NY 890" just east of 5, and a "West NY 890" just beyond the exit for the Thruway.
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US 62 apparently got a downgrade in Gahanna:
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Yep, it was talked about on MTR rather extensively when it happened, IIRC.
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Quote from: Central Avenue on June 20, 2011, 11:51:43 AM
US 62 apparently got a downgrade in Gahanna:
You take that photo before or after the downpour we had at rush hour Friday (just before the Creekside festival started)? ;-)
That Oh 62 sign been around 7 or 8 years now. I have a photo of it herehttp://www.roadfan.com/gahanna.html from when I attended the 2004 Creekside Blues & Jazz festival.
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vtk

Quote from: Central Avenue on June 20, 2011, 11:51:43 AM
US 62 apparently got a downgrade in Gahanna:

This breed of mistake is extremely common on Ohio.  It's not just on signs, either: text descriptions of roads frequently say "state route" even when it's a US highway being referenced.  Even municipal highway department and ODOT employees get it wrong sometimes.  Anyway, given that US highways, just like Ohio state routes, are maintained by ODOT outside of municipalities, and there are no duplicated numbers between the two systems, it's a very minor error of almost no consequence.
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Quote from: vtk on June 27, 2011, 01:01:25 PM
This breed of mistake is extremely common on Ohio.



It's pretty common in Oregon, too.

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Quote from: vtk on June 27, 2011, 01:01:25 PM
This breed of mistake is extremely common on Ohio.
Quote from: xonhulu on June 27, 2011, 02:55:45 PM
It's pretty common in Oregon, too.
Instead of downgrading routes, California has a tendency to upgrade routes...


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one more that was around at the first mile of US-101 for a few years

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xonhulu

Quote from: myosh_tino on June 27, 2011, 03:17:21 PM
Instead of downgrading routes, California has a tendency to upgrade routes...

So does Oregon:



However, while Oregon has plenty of state-route-to-US "upgrades", I've never seen a non-interstate in Oregon marked as interstate.  Has anybody?

agentsteel53

that US-99 feels like it should be a different category of error: a retrograde, rather than an upgrade, as US-99 was the correct designation for the route. 
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agentsteel53

Quote from: xonhulu on June 28, 2011, 03:24:49 PMI've never seen a non-interstate in Oregon marked as interstate.  Has anybody?

kinda sorta close in a way maybe ish



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Quote from: deanej on June 28, 2011, 12:16:42 PM
Quote from: myosh_tino on June 27, 2011, 03:17:21 PM
And to think we though that I-99 in PA was bad...


Perhaps Bud Shuster's I-99 plan was to be a "ring interstate" around the country.    ;-)

xonhulu

Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 28, 2011, 04:45:55 PM
kinda sorta close in a way maybe ish




I was hoping for blue shield and all, but I guess that kinda sorta close in a way maybe ish counts.

agentsteel53

red white and blue shield errors are relatively rare.  CA has a much higher proportion than other states.

I've never seen one in Oregon.  or a lot of other places.  I need to make an addition to the shield gallery software to search for error shields: a manual search of a few states turned up nothing.
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I know the shield gallery has an I-530 from Washington, but IIRC, it's not really an error shield.  It was done as a joke at the DOT shop, and is posted at the exit of said shop.

agentsteel53

Quote from: Kacie Jane on June 28, 2011, 07:34:05 PM
I know the shield gallery has an I-530 from Washington, but IIRC, it's not really an error shield.  It was done as a joke at the DOT shop, and is posted at the exit of said shop.

I have never been able to find that.  You'd imagine 530 isn't all that long of a route, too...

is it visible from mainline 530?
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I have yet to find an error shield in Michigan.



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