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Started by achilles765, November 02, 2024, 06:06:20 PM

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TheStranger

Quote from: Quillz on November 24, 2024, 12:29:26 AM
Quote from: architect77 on November 23, 2024, 06:55:54 PMWhen I lived in LA in the 90s California hadn't yet added exit numbers to the exits. They kept them looking cool even with the numbers slapped on in corners.
Interstate 10 should have had them, at least in the Inland Empire area. I always remember the old 210/10 junction being signed. I think the state did it as an experiment, then it became a national standard during the next decade.

IIRC, I-10 had the furthest extent of the 1971-era experimental (center-tabbed) mile-based exit numbers in LA, if the 1982 Gousha atlas I once had was accurate.

The only example of that era's exit numbers on I-10 that I can think of now is at the junction with Route 1 in Santa Monica:


The other roads that had these 1971 number installations, as seen from these AAroads photos that are 16-20 years old.  (Some of these have been replaced with the modern exit number signage)

US 101 along the Santa Ana Freeway



I-5 west of I-710 to Boyle Heights (I distinctly remember the old signage near exit 132/133)



110 north of I-10 to Stadium Way





Chris Sampang


ClassicHasClass

Exit number tabs were definitely on the 110 in the '90s. I think that was part of the pilot study also.

Bobby5280

Most of those signs are really grungy looking. I'd usually expect to see that kind of thing in a "rust belt" city rather than Sunny California.

vdeane

I think it's wild that CA had a spec for exit tabs in the 70s but somehow took 20 years to develop one once they finally decided to add exit numbers on a statewide basis.  Why not just bring back the 70s spec?
Please note: All comments here represent my own personal opinion and do not reflect the official position of NYSDOT or its affiliates.

Max Rockatansky

Fair chance it was a funding issue given it was a 1970s thing.  That was when the great malaise of the state highway system started.

Quillz

Quote from: Bobby5280 on November 24, 2024, 01:43:54 PMMost of those signs are really grungy looking. I'd usually expect to see that kind of thing in a "rust belt" city rather than Sunny California.
Because there's really no need to replace them until they get too worn out to be legible or it's a safety issue.

About six months ago, some of the old button copy signs on the 101 through the SF Valley got replaced with the modern retroreflective signage.

Max Rockatansky

Those button copy gantry sign were built with a 30 year service life in mind. 

Right now with all the fog and gloom in the Central Valley I'm amused at the prospect of anything "sunny."  The Sierra foothills and much of the Mojave were both a cloudy bluster this weekend.



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