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#21

Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by kphoger - Today at 09:38:30 AM

what do these colored routes even mean?

Covered bridges driving routes (.pdf warning)

greater detail here (.pdf warning)

#22

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by kphoger - Today at 09:30:53 AM

Don't come to Spain then. Dashed lines not aligning is the norm here.

It's the norm here too.  I'm sure there are other places that do striping the way Nebraska does, but I don't think it's common overall.  In my opinion, though, it's the right way.

#23

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by paulthemapguy - Today at 09:27:31 AM

July 10: Post the junction of a US highway with a 0 in the tens place and a US highway with a 9 in the tens place.

Another intersection that is less traveled with the advent of a new bypass: it's US2 and US93 in Kalispell, MT


MT-US2-US93W by Paul Across America, on Flickr

US2 and US191 in Malta, Montana


180 US2W by Paul Across America, on Flickr

US2 and US395 in Spokane


WA-I-90X281W by Paul Across America, on Flickr

Tomorrow, we start the 1-row. The 1-row may be more easy because there isn't a random corner of the country hogging all the US routes in that decade.

July 11: Post a junction of a US highway ending in 1 and another US highway ending in 1.
July 12: Post a junction of a US highway ending in 1 and a US highway ending in 2.
July 13: Post a junction of a US highway ending in 1 and a US highway ending in 3.

#24

Off-Topic / Re: Changing one letter of a t...

Last post by kphoger - Today at 09:16:29 AM

I grew up calling flip-flops 'thongs'.  I am not Australian.

#25

Northeast / Re: General PA Design/Construc...

Last post by 74/171FAN - Today at 08:02:16 AM

CE Expert System:

District 12: PA 18 over Laughman Run

PennDOT - District 4 News: Rolling Traffic Stoppages Scheduled on Route 115 in Luzerne County

(For PA 259) PennDOT - District 10 News: Heshbon Bridge to Open Tomorrow on Route 259 in Indiana County

#26

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by Jim - Today at 07:54:25 AM

US 90 and US 301 in Baldwin, Florida, on a segment I travel much less frequently since the opening of the bypass.  January 1, 2005.

#27

Off-Topic / Re: AARoads Wordle

Last post by Big John - Today at 07:51:16 AM

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#28

General Highway Talk / Re: Two places on sign that ar...

Last post by GaryV - Today at 07:41:35 AM

These two towns are located in a state that uses a diamond state highway shield, but they're not in the one you'd expect

And my first thought was, "Yeah, what about it?"

I guess I should have thought of that major city, spelled the same but pronounced differently.

But when I thought Lowell, the one that immediately came to mind was in MA. I didn't know there was one in NC.

#29

Northeast / Re: Why are Cape Cod residents...

Last post by kalvado - Today at 06:59:11 AM

I also find it interesting that exits 1A-B westbound just after the Sagamore Bridge survived the conversion - are they considered to be based off MA 3's mileage as it begins? It leaves a 55-to-1 jump similar to the Capital Beltway jump mentioned upthread.

Yes, the exits just north of the Sagamore Bridge are now based off MA 3's mile markers.  But leaving the Cape, you're still on US 6 when you pass Exit 1A.  Exit 1B is MA 3 exiting itself!  The "loop ramp" to stay on US 6 west is unnumbered!

Even more weird, if you "continue straight" in both directions, you are "taking" exit 1B, which makes no sense whatsoever! 

Both sequential and mileage-based exits in theory work great. Real road layouts - with concurrences,  TOTSOs, later changes to roads layout... Well, looks like someone at FHWA got a great solution in search of at least a small problem.

I don't think this situation is FHWA's fault.  From US 6, 1A should be 54B and 1B should be 54A.  From MA 3, 1A should be 1 and 1B-55 should not be numbered.  MassDOT is just being dumb because they couldn't decide whether it should be numbered based off MA 3 or US 6 so they just said "both", resulting on MA 3 numbers being used on US 6.

What's really weird is that this might not stay with MA: NCDOT wants to do the same thing with I-74 and I-77!

I am not talking about the way renumbering works locally. I am more talking about desire to break long established patterns for no good reason.
Some people believe newer is better - ask Microsoft about all the changes they make, for example; but a lot of people less than enjoy changes for the sake of change. That may be compared to area code for phone network, where early additions via splits shifted to  mostly overlays. While technology advancement could be an enabling one, there are certainly less intrusive to general population.

#30

Central States / Re: I-44/US-75 Interchange Rec...

Last post by Stephane Dumas - Today at 06:23:16 AM

Their website really sucks. It was really good in the early 2010s. They had a lot of information they kept it up. I don't know why they let it go to shit.

Maybe the Wayback Machine have archived copies of OKDOT website back to the 2010s.