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Title: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: US71 on March 22, 2019, 10:11:38 AM
Sign fail  (https://katv.com/news/local/overhead-sign-falls-onto-interstate-in-little-rock-causes-crash) on I-440 near Little Rock

Make me wonder about all the new exit signs coming for I-49

Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: Henry on March 22, 2019, 10:31:25 AM
A real-life horror story indeed.
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: GreenLanternCorps on March 22, 2019, 10:39:47 AM
It looks like the mounting brackets are still on the gantry.  How exactly are those signs attached?
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: US71 on March 22, 2019, 11:07:26 AM
Quote from: GreenLanternCorps on March 22, 2019, 10:39:47 AM
It looks like the mounting brackets are still on the gantry.  How exactly are those signs attached?

Bubblegum ;)
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: MNHighwayMan on March 22, 2019, 11:36:41 AM
Quote from: GreenLanternCorps on March 22, 2019, 10:39:47 AM
It looks like the mounting brackets are still on the gantry.  How exactly are those signs attached?

With the power of friendship.
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: kurumi on March 22, 2019, 11:58:34 AM
Quote from: US71 on March 22, 2019, 10:11:38 AM
Sign fail  (https://katv.com/news/local/overhead-sign-falls-onto-interstate-in-little-rock-causes-crash) on I-440 near Little Rock

Make me wonder about all the new exit signs coming for I-49

Here's the machine ARDOT will use to shake the old panels loose. The claw in the foreground grips the sign gantry post.

(https://i.imgur.com/kE45BIj.jpg)
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: cjk374 on March 22, 2019, 09:09:26 PM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on March 22, 2019, 11:36:41 AM
Quote from: GreenLanternCorps on March 22, 2019, 10:39:47 AM
It looks like the mounting brackets are still on the gantry.  How exactly are those signs attached?

With the power of friendship.

Don't forget the bailing wire.
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: ARMOURERERIC on March 22, 2019, 09:19:19 PM
Flex tape
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: rte66man on March 24, 2019, 09:24:48 AM
Quote from: ARMOURERERIC on March 22, 2019, 09:19:19 PM
Flex tape

If it was that then it wouldn't have fallen :)
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: Greybear on July 18, 2019, 01:12:48 AM
Quote from: US71 on March 22, 2019, 10:11:38 AM
Sign fail  (https://katv.com/news/local/overhead-sign-falls-onto-interstate-in-little-rock-causes-crash) on I-440 near Little Rock

Make me wonder about all the new exit signs coming for I-49


Y'all might want to take another look at those signs. That gantry is on I-30, NOT I-440.
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: US71 on July 25, 2019, 10:44:14 AM
Quote from: Greybear on July 18, 2019, 01:12:48 AM
Quote from: US71 on March 22, 2019, 10:11:38 AM
Sign fail  (https://katv.com/news/local/overhead-sign-falls-onto-interstate-in-little-rock-causes-crash) on I-440 near Little Rock

Make me wonder about all the new exit signs coming for I-49


Y'all might want to take another look at those signs. That gantry is on I-30, NOT I-440.

Hmmm...the article suggests 440.
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: Stephane Dumas on July 25, 2019, 01:25:57 PM
The sign reminded me of that moving sign in Calgary who was filmed in 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbtoeiP6Jwo
Title: Re: Fall Down Go Boom
Post by: Greybear on August 11, 2019, 12:54:31 AM
Quote from: US71 on July 25, 2019, 10:44:14 AM
Quote from: Greybear on July 18, 2019, 01:12:48 AM
Quote from: US71 on March 22, 2019, 10:11:38 AM
Sign fail  (https://katv.com/news/local/overhead-sign-falls-onto-interstate-in-little-rock-causes-crash) on I-440 near Little Rock

Make me wonder about all the new exit signs coming for I-49


Y'all might want to take another look at those signs. That gantry is on I-30, NOT I-440.

Hmmm...the article suggests 440.
Quote from: US71 on July 25, 2019, 10:44:14 AM
Quote from: Greybear on July 18, 2019, 01:12:48 AM
Quote from: US71 on March 22, 2019, 10:11:38 AM
Sign fail  (https://katv.com/news/local/overhead-sign-falls-onto-interstate-in-little-rock-causes-crash) on I-440 near Little Rock

Make me wonder about all the new exit signs coming for I-49


Y'all might want to take another look at those signs. That gantry is on I-30, NOT I-440.

Hmmm...the article suggests 440.

That may be, but take it from someone who once lived in the Little Rock area.  Since when is there any signage on I-440 for I-630 and using the exit numbering for I-30. Trust me, I know that bloomin' highway, and that is on I-30 EB, just past I-440 and I-530. In face, the sign that came down was for Exit 139A - AR 365/Roosevelt Rd.