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

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agentsteel53

Quote from: WNYroadgeek on November 24, 2009, 08:20:21 PM


Wait, so which way do I go to get to I-86\NY 17?

do all three possibilities work?  in Baker, CA, I-15 is a bypass and there are three exits: one at each end, one in the middle.  At the junction between the business loop (old US-91/466) and the cutoff road in the middle, approaching from the fourth prong, this gantry would be correct.  Somewhat senseless but correct.
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agentsteel53

what is the error in that sign pair?  Is that the DC beltway, aka I-495?
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Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 25, 2009, 12:02:50 AM
what is the error in that sign pair?  Is that the DC beltway, aka I-495?

I assumed that there were supposed to be Control Cities instead of the Freeway Name

agentsteel53

Quote from: Hellfighter on November 25, 2009, 12:52:21 AM

I assumed that there were supposed to be Control Cities instead of the Freeway Name

having the freeway name instead of the cities is an old California tradition that DC seems to have picked up on.
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Probably because everyone refers to it as the Beltway and, especially on the I-95 portion, it's pretty clear where north and south go.
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I noticed the to loops around Louisville have their freeway name (Gene Snyder (265) or Watterson (264) used on BGS's referring to those particular highways instead of any sort of control city.
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Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 24, 2009, 10:48:43 PM
do all three possibilities work?

Sure do, though taking a right onto 430 West (as shown by the TO NY17 sign) is a longer and slightly less direct way to go.  430 East goes down the east side of Chautauqua Lake towards Bemus Point and 394 East goes down the west side of the lake.
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US71

Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 20, 2009, 05:48:21 PM

here is a goof from Litchfield, Illinois.



A second one, eh? I got one about 3-4 years ago in Litchfield
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agentsteel53

Quote from: US71 on November 25, 2009, 02:21:44 PM
A second one, eh? I got one about 3-4 years ago in Litchfield

there were indeed two in 2006, about two blocks apart.

Litchfield also signed this well after the road was decommissioned:

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Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 25, 2009, 02:48:24 PM
Quote from: US71 on November 25, 2009, 02:21:44 PM
A second one, eh? I got one about 3-4 years ago in Litchfield

there were indeed two in 2006, about two blocks apart.

Litchfield also signed this well after the road was decommissioned:



Let us hope that sign never gets removed. :P
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Is the North on the US 66 wrong as well or was it signed as NORTH-SOUTH in that part of the country?
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I've seen U.S. 41 signed as Georgia State Route 41 along Old Dixie Rd. and just north of the Barnesville city limits. I had a photo of the error near Barnesville, but deleted it by mistake. :-(

In the near future, I'm planning a day trip down U.S. 19 from I-75 and the S.R. 3 Connector to Albany. So, when I do that, I'll try to get the U.S. 41/Ga. 41 error, if it's still there. The one on Old Dixie Rd. (U.S. 19/41/S.R. 3) has been corrected.

U.S. 41 was signed as Ga. 41 on the I-75 access road from I-285 East a few years back, but I contacted GDOT and they fixed it. This was before I started roadgeeking -- before I knew what the term was. ;-)


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agentsteel53

I believe the NORTH is an error.

I have seen it signed in Illinois as CHICAGO and ST. LOUIS. 



but generally it was EAST and WEST.
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Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 25, 2009, 11:30:17 PM
I believe the NORTH is an error.

I have seen it signed in Illinois as CHICAGO and ST. LOUIS. 




In Illinois, I believe it was often posted as North-South, but I can ask on the Route 66 list to be sure ;)
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ctsignguy

Quote from: WNYroadgeek on November 12, 2009, 08:42:11 PM


Can somebody please tell me how the hell NYSDOT screwed this up?

Ummm, Australian at work? 

Or maybe a guy who played the center position on a football team? (Those guys see EVERYTHING upside down and backwards!)
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froggie

Quotewhat is the error in that sign pair?  Is that the DC beltway, aka I-495?

Not an error per se...but techically missing some information, since VDOT considers that stretch of the Beltway to include I-495 (for some reason, FHWA's Interstate route log does not), and they sign the other Beltway interchanges as both I-95 and I-495.

QuoteBut since SR's do not exist in Virginia Beach or any other independent city not named Suffolk

...any other independent city, period.  Suffolk's SR's officially went bye-bye when they took over maintenance from VDOT a couple years ago.

Quotehaving the freeway name instead of the cities is an old California tradition that DC seems to have picked up on.

DC proper has had it for decades, but aside from the Beltway, it isn't really used elsewhere in the region.  And even with that, there are some locations where you'll see I-95's control cities or Tyson's Corner as control cities for the Beltway and not "Capitol Beltway".

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Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 25, 2009, 02:48:24 PM



Also, the sign in the back says "end CONSTRUCTION"....when was the last time you saw that!?!?  Most signs say ROAD WORK!
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Quote from: doofy103 on November 26, 2009, 03:35:37 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 25, 2009, 02:48:24 PM



Also, the sign in the back says "end CONSTRUCTION"....when was the last time you saw that!?!?  Most signs say ROAD WORK!
In California, "END CONSTRUCTION" signs are still commonly used to mark the end of a construction/road work zone.  "ROAD CONSTRUCTION AHEAD" signs are also still common in California.  Given all that, I am starting to see more and more signs that say "ROAD WORK" instead of "ROAD CONSTRUCTION".
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Quote from: myosh_tino on November 26, 2009, 04:13:47 PM
Quote from: doofy103 on November 26, 2009, 03:35:37 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 25, 2009, 02:48:24 PM

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Also, the sign in the back says "end CONSTRUCTION"....when was the last time you saw that!?!?  Most signs say ROAD WORK!
In California, "END CONSTRUCTION" signs are still commonly used to mark the end of a construction/road work zone.  "ROAD CONSTRUCTION AHEAD" signs are also still common in California.  Given all that, I am starting to see more and more signs that say "ROAD WORK" instead of "ROAD CONSTRUCTION".

PennDOT also loves to use the "End Construction" signs.

BigMattFromTexas

Quote from: ctsignguy on November 26, 2009, 10:28:43 AM
Quote from: WNYroadgeek on November 12, 2009, 08:42:11 PM


Can somebody please tell me how the hell NYSDOT screwed this up?

Ummm, Australian at work? 

Or maybe a guy who played the center position on a football team? (Those guys see EVERYTHING upside down and backwards!)
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agentsteel53

I moved the entire discussion on VA routes in independent cities to its own thread under Mid-Atlantic.  That includes the photo that prompted the whole discussion, as I had no idea how to duplicate it.  Here is the photo in question.



posted by SyntheticDreamer.

here is the new discussion thread relating to that sign:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=2038.0

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Quote from: ctsignguy on November 26, 2009, 10:28:43 AM
Quote from: WNYroadgeek on November 12, 2009, 08:42:11 PM


Can somebody please tell me how the hell NYSDOT screwed this up?

Ummm, Australian at work? 

Or maybe a guy who played the center position on a football team? (Those guys see EVERYTHING upside down and backwards!)

Actually, I think that is a printing error. As you can see, the numbers are right side up, but the shield design is upside down. The installer probably didn't care about the design and just wanted the sign numbers to look right-side-up (or the route is actually called l6E :sombrero:).

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Quote from: agentsteel53 on November 25, 2009, 02:48:24 PM
Quote from: US71 on November 25, 2009, 02:21:44 PM
A second one, eh? I got one about 3-4 years ago in Litchfield

there were indeed two in 2006, about two blocks apart.

Litchfield also signed this well after the road was decommissioned:

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So this how US 66 would have looked like using a modern sign if it wasn't decommissioned.

WNYroadgeek



Since when was I-390 an east\west route?



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