News:

Thank you for your patience during the Forum downtime while we upgraded the software. Welcome back and see this thread for some new features and other changes to the forum.

Main Menu

Weird fractions on distance signs

Started by Pink Jazz, February 06, 2015, 01:58:05 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

Alex

Quote from: stridentweasel on February 06, 2015, 02:57:35 PM
What's less common, but not unheard of, is to display distances in feet.

Several of those still in play along the Delaware 141 freeway.


swbrotha100

I-10 WB in Tucson, between Kino Pkwy and Park Ave, has a 1/8 mile exit approach

Jardine

Northbound I-29 in Iowa, north of Missouri Valley, the Modale exit ahead sign shows 1 1/4 miles which gives me a chuckle every time I see it.

The sign was placed ahead of an overpass for some reason (like the overpass would block the view of the sign if it was just past it).

And I also find it a bit weird to have an overpass for a gravel farm road just a mile (OK a tad more) from an interchange, although it was handy when the redecking crew mangled the stringers and the interchange was closed for months longer than anticipated to get the steel fixed.


Zeffy

Life would be boring if we didn't take an offramp every once in a while

A weird combination of a weather geek, roadgeek, car enthusiast and furry mixed with many anxiety related disorders

odditude

Quote from: Zeffy on February 10, 2015, 04:12:16 PMDespite how bad I-76 through Philadelphia is, that is one nice view you get of the city. 6/10 should've been simplified though (and 9/10? really?) to 3/5 if anything.
Tenths match your odometer with no additional thinking required.

jeffandnicole

Quote from: odditude on February 10, 2015, 04:25:50 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on February 10, 2015, 04:12:16 PMDespite how bad I-76 through Philadelphia is, that is one nice view you get of the city. 6/10 should've been simplified though (and 9/10? really?) to 3/5 if anything.
Tenths match your odometer with no additional thinking required.

1/2 mile is good enough.

bassoon1986

https://goo.gl/maps/TqIvE

Looks like this old 1/3 designation in New Orleans got replaced. So that exit just magically got 1/12 of a mile closer

hotdogPi

Quote from: bassoon1986 on February 11, 2015, 11:19:45 AM
https://goo.gl/maps/TqIvE

Looks like this old 1/3 designation in New Orleans got replaced. So that exit just magically got 1/12 of a mile closer

If it's a sign, the sign could have moved instead of the exit. (Street View doesn't work due to outdated Flash Player, so I can't see it.)
Clinched, minus I-93 (I'm missing a few miles and my file is incorrect)

Traveled, plus US 13, 44, and 50, and several state routes

I will be in Burlington VT for the eclipse.

bassoon1986

No, it's the same placement. There are some serious rusted poles holding it up.

ekt8750

Quote from: Zeffy on February 10, 2015, 04:12:16 PM
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.946096,-75.18935,3a,41.8y,43.91h,93.73t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1srP4GPhhpR2ceEGnLCWtJDA!2e0

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.948734,-75.185398,3a,21y,31.27h,108.72t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sqo3mfxkwibbVSBsjqGrT9w!2e0

Despite how bad I-76 through Philadelphia is, that is one nice view you get of the city. 6/10 should've been simplified though (and 9/10? really?) to 3/5 if anything.

South Street bridge esp in its current form is the one of the best photo spots in the area. I'm surprised they didn't replace those signs when the bridge was replaced. They put in fresh Clearview signs on the eastbound side.

Brandon

Quote from: odditude on February 10, 2015, 04:25:50 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on February 10, 2015, 04:12:16 PMDespite how bad I-76 through Philadelphia is, that is one nice view you get of the city. 6/10 should've been simplified though (and 9/10? really?) to 3/5 if anything.
Tenths match your odometer with no additional thinking required.

Eighths match the streets you pass.  Around Chicago, it's eight blocks to the mile.  Pass two, and you've gone a quarter mile.
"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton

"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." - Reg

PHLBOS

#36
Quote from: ekt8750 on February 11, 2015, 03:48:05 PMSouth Street bridge esp in its current form is the one of the best photo spots in the area. I'm surprised they didn't replace those signs when the bridge was replaced. They put in fresh Clearview signs on the eastbound side.
The cantilever-mounted 4/10 mile BGS for exit 346B (if that's the one you're referring to) along I-76 East replaced an 1980s vintage structure-mounted BGS.  Since the structure in question was replaced as part of the South Street Bridge Replacement project; PennDOT had no choice but to replace that BGS and provide a new gantry. 

Scroll down to see the previous bridge-mounted BGS

The newer supplemental BGS located further down I-76 East (on the older overhead gantry sign bridge) was replaced due to either the old BGS being hopelessly vandalized or its legend being modified.
GPS does NOT equal GOD


BamaZeus


riiga

^ Nice and round numbers. What's wrong with them?

kphoger

I really don't want to have to do mental division while navigating traffic in an unfamiliar city and looking for my exit.  600 feet??  That's, like, ummmm...somewhere between 1/10 and....ummmm...probably 1/8 of a mile.....I guess.  But, if I'm glancing in my mirror, answering a question from a passenger, etc., etc., then I really just don't want to have to do that kind of math in my head.  Just tell me it's 1/8 or 1/10 of a mile, or better yet, "NEXT EXIT".

In reality, though, anything like that just means "EXIT VERY CLOSE".
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

hotdogPi

Quote from: riiga on February 12, 2015, 02:23:28 PM
^ Nice and round numbers. What's wrong with them?

They're in the same spot. It is impossible for both to be correct.
Clinched, minus I-93 (I'm missing a few miles and my file is incorrect)

Traveled, plus US 13, 44, and 50, and several state routes

I will be in Burlington VT for the eclipse.

bzakharin

Quote from: kphoger on February 12, 2015, 02:23:54 PM
I really don't want to have to do mental division while navigating traffic in an unfamiliar city and looking for my exit.  600 feet??  That's, like, ummmm...somewhere between 1/10 and....ummmm...probably 1/8 of a mile.....I guess.  But, if I'm glancing in my mirror, answering a question from a passenger, etc., etc., then I really just don't want to have to do that kind of math in my head.  Just tell me it's 1/8 or 1/10 of a mile, or better yet, "NEXT EXIT".

In reality, though, anything like that just means "EXIT VERY CLOSE".
Usually they do this when multiple exits are close together, it's more like "These exits are all very close and in this order". Though, if they're numbered (sanely) then the number/lettered suffix of the exit will be enough to deduce the order anyway as long as you know whether they are increasing or decreasing in your direction.

P.S. GPSes seem to like feet (and sometimes yards) in voice output, but mile fractions on the display. Wonder what's going on there.

Brandon

Quote from: 1 on February 12, 2015, 02:35:53 PM
Quote from: riiga on February 12, 2015, 02:23:28 PM
^ Nice and round numbers. What's wrong with them?

They're in the same spot. It is impossible for both to be correct.

Sure they could be correct.  They're two different exits.
"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton

"Symbolic of his struggle against reality." - Reg

ftballfan


webny99

I-490 at Exit 7 has a 4/10 mile warning.
I always thought it was weird; no reason not to use 1/4 like they do at every other cloverleaf.

paulthemapguy

I-39/90 in Janesville, WI has some weird ones.  These examples are thirds, but I could swear there's a "1/6 mi" sign somewhere in the area, that I can't find...

https://goo.gl/maps/aRthWCf8zaw
https://goo.gl/maps/6HEYpcS8sRo
https://goo.gl/maps/NBtg7ozRwgP2
https://goo.gl/maps/1puXNz3yPNp

Avatar is the last interesting highway I clinched.
My website! http://www.paulacrossamerica.com Now featuring all of Ohio!
My USA Shield Gallery https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHwJRZk
TM Clinches https://bit.ly/2UwRs4O

National collection status: 361/425. Only 64 route markers remain

CrystalWalrein

Exit 29B on I-295, for US 30 West, is pegged at 1/10 mile from 29A.

bzakharin

The I-295/NJ 42/I-76 interchange area used to have a lot of 1/8 fractions. Many were taken down on 295 South, but this one on 295 North is still there AFAIK:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8728562,-75.1021695,3a,75y,181.81h,101.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgC86P8rsU3KgoY0hDZhniQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1

This 1 1/4 one is not as weird except that I don't see the reason for it:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8475807,-75.0953244,3a,75y,336.95h,100.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFrKp7GvkB1xv5tSLucHlgA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1

After all, there is a 2-mile advance sign and a 1-mile advance sign, and NJ 55 has not merged in yet, so it's not for their benefit.

paulthemapguy

Here's an odd one I found to the south of Wilkes-Barre, PA


IMG_4868 by Paul Drives, on Flickr
Avatar is the last interesting highway I clinched.
My website! http://www.paulacrossamerica.com Now featuring all of Ohio!
My USA Shield Gallery https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHwJRZk
TM Clinches https://bit.ly/2UwRs4O

National collection status: 361/425. Only 64 route markers remain



Opinions expressed here on belong solely to the poster and do not represent or reflect the opinions or beliefs of AARoads, its creators and/or associates.