FADED Beyond Recognition

[architect77]

Please take a look at Atlanta's descent into 3rd World Country status. I have emailed and Fedexed color photos of these 30 year old I-85 Access Road signs that haven't been replaced since the 1980's. How can any DOT employee hold their heads up in their home city?

Atlanta's infrastructure looks so bad that Atlanta is an absolute DUMP. 4,000 of the 6,000 or so freeway lights HAVEN'T WORKED SINCE 2009!

This city is falling apart.

[Zeffy]

I think it's pretty bad that I can't read some of those signs at all and I'm on a computer. If a sign isn't readable to a certain extent, then yes, they need to be replaced. This is apparent here.

[hotdogPi]

@gas station: Do you realize that's a 3.89 and not a 2.89?

[NE2]

heh heh Cumming Dahlonega

[Eth]

@gas station: Do you realize that's a 3.89 and not a 2.89?

The photo's a few months old, I'm guessing.

It should be noted that the signs at Clairmont are much more readable in person than they appear in this photo (unless they've degraded drastically in the last 2-3 months). They are, however, old enough to make no mention of US 23, which joined SR 155 here in approximately 1981.

[xcellntbuy]

I noticed on my late night Saturday drive last week that many of the streetlights in the median of Interstate 75 on the south side of the city were completely off.  No construction in the area, just no lighting on a 12-14 lane highway as I approached Interstate 85.

[architect77]

This photo is from yesterday. The signs at Shallowford Rd and/or Chamblee-Tucker northbound are even more faded that this. Regardless, totally unacceptable.

An Atlanta Public Works employee emailed me to say that the freeway lights were being addressed, one highway at a time. I did notice that they were working on the lights on I-75 between downtown and Cumberland/I-285 area.

[national highway 1]

The bottom sign used to be a brown tourist sign for Taronga Zoo, but after all these years it hasn't been replaced.

[KG909]

Being the immature teen I am, I understood 'FADED' in another way at first.

[signalman]

Being the immature teen I am, I understood 'FADED' in another way at first.

That would be found in the off topic section, if anywhere on here.

[Pink Jazz]

Brown is a color that fades quite easily.  In the Phoenix area, many of the old brown Loop 202 shields have faded (especially those facing south), which is why ADOT decided to do away with the colored shields for the Phoenix area loops (Loop 101 was blue and Loop 303 was black).  I think green would have been a better choice for Loop 202 instead of brown.

[hbelkins]

Being the immature teen I am, I understood 'FADED' in another way at first.

Being an out-of-touch-with-pop-culture adult, I have no clue what other meaning "faded" could have.

[DaBigE]

Being the immature teen I am, I understood 'FADED' in another way at first.

Being an out-of-touch-with-pop-culture adult, I have no clue what other meaning "faded" could have.

That makes two of us...

[NE2]

I'm in-touch enough to know how to search urbandictionary.

[talllguy]

I should post a picture of every single sign in Baltimore.

[adventurernumber1]

Being the immature teen I am, I understood 'FADED' in another way at first.

Being an out-of-touch-with-pop-culture adult, I have no clue what other meaning "faded" could have.

That makes two of us...

I am a 14 year old dude and even I don't know what that could have meant 

Brown is a color that fades quite easily.  In the Phoenix area, many of the old brown Loop 202 shields have faded (especially those facing south), which is why ADOT decided to do away with the colored shields for the Phoenix area loops (Loop 101 was blue and Loop 303 was black).  I think green would have been a better choice for Loop 202 instead of brown.

Wow, that sign is in horrid shape. I can hardly see the font!! 

[kj3400]

I should post a picture of every single sign in Baltimore.

They're not all bad. Well, most of them are.

[Zeffy]

Being the immature teen I am, I understood 'FADED' in another way at first.

Being an out-of-touch-with-pop-culture adult, I have no clue what other meaning "faded" could have.

That makes two of us...

In short, it means you are either blazed (high) out of your mind (usually with pot), or you are drunk. The term gained popularity when Tyga and Lil' Wayne made a song called Faded, with the chorus going something like:

Faded, faded, faded, my <explicit> I'm faded (repeats)

[KG909]

Being the immature teen I am, I understood 'FADED' in another way at first.

Being an out-of-touch-with-pop-culture adult, I have no clue what other meaning "faded" could have.

That makes two of us...

In short, it means you are either blazed (high) out of your mind (usually with pot), or you are drunk. The term gained popularity when Tyga and Lil' Wayne made a song called Faded, with the chorus going something like:

Faded, faded, faded, my <explicit> I'm faded (repeats)

Hate that song, but I heard of it because you know, high school. Anyway yeah Zeffy is right, it's when you're high off marijuana.

[hbelkins]

Well, I've semi-heard of Lil Wayne, but have no clue who Tyga is.

(Says the guy who didn't know who Elsa was when he started hearing about all these kids dressed up as Elsa for Halloween).

[agentsteel53]

I think green would have been a better choice for Loop 202 instead of brown.

there is at least one Loop 202 shield which faded somehow to ... green.  I saw it a couple of weeks ago.  I think it was 101 NB approaching the northern leg of 202.

[Eth]

Combining the two topics of Atlanta and faded brown signs, there's this (over at the right).

Bonus: you can see where the sign originally said "EXIT 28" instead of "EXIT 60", one of the very few remaining visible indications of the pre-2000 Interstate exit numbers.

[Pink Jazz]

I think green would have been a better choice for Loop 202 instead of brown.

there is at least one Loop 202 shield which faded somehow to ... green.  I saw it a couple of weeks ago.  I think it was 101 NB approaching the northern leg of 202.

Yep, pale green.  The red/orange/yellow dyes used to make brown must have faded, leaving only the leftover green dye.  I actually meant that they should be the same shade of green as the BGS.  I don't think there would be a problem with visibility, as Business Interstates as well as California State Routes all have green shields.  Perhaps other choices would be pink or purple, but pink might fade to white and purple might fade to blue.

BTW, the brown Loop 202 shields when heading on Loop 101 SB aren't nearly faded as badly.  I presume it is because these signs face north and don't receive as much direct sunlight.  However, I expect these signs to be replaced once the Pima Freeway widening project is complete.

Also, the SanTan Freeway portion of Loop 202 never used the brown Loop 202 shields, as ADOT had already done away with the colored shields by the time that portion was built.

[SignGeek101]

Going to revive this thread. Seen near the border.

http://goo.gl/maps/o3856

[steviep24]

Spotted these today at NY 250 at Klem Rd. in Webster. The street blades are so faded they're unreadable.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.232183,-77.428546,3a,75y,20.6h,92.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1srYnJGnByaCmJwnjF80cEdg!2e0!6m1!1e1?hl=en