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#91

Mid-Atlantic / Re: The Attempt to Fix Virgini...

Last post by WillWeaverRVA - June 11, 2025, 03:36:09 PM

I've yet to be able to get out to VA 410 to see if it got posted, but it seems like this is about as far as we're going to get, unless you want to try and shoot for the moon and get US 460 correctly signed from I-95.

Yeah, other than some minor changes, I've kind of hit a snag in terms of getting signage corrected. The only thing that I've been able to confirm is that an "EAST I-195" shield at VA 147 and I-195/VA 76 was corrected to "SOUTH I-195" and some VA 6 shields have popped up along Patterson Ave, but not at where VA 6 transitions onto Kensington Ave.

Chesterfield County never corrected that Chatsworth Ave street name sign, I'll probably reach out again and see if we can't get a VA 324 on there.

I'm getting a bit irritated with certain jurisdictions lately...

[Corn Sign update]

#92

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

Last post by kphoger - June 11, 2025, 02:46:19 PM

Next page's ideas:

National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Corn Sign update — I expect Scott to produce a mockup
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Mars/Atlases — where to find a good one for my upcoming road trip to the red planet
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Los Angeles after the capture — pics from the newly created Mexican state of Alta California
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► On-ramps at empty-terrain diamond interchanges: should they have K-curves? — about slopes
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Pity names on freeway signs — https://maps.app.goo.gl/5BCmxGsV4UmYSeSKA
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Misspelled sigms — yes, yes you did
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Freeways that yeet without an interchange — I hate gen-z slang...
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Donating old mass? — they removed the tumor, so what should I do with it now?
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Beat Urban Freeways — NIMBYs never admit defeat!
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Where now is worse than old — same thread, same title meaning
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Esoteric replacements for highway berms — most of you won't understand this project
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Too much public involvment or cowing to interest groups — kind of the opposite meaning
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Weird, Contridictory, or phat? — I hate gen-y slang...
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► State oops, Compared to Texas? — how does your state's biggest blunder measure up?
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Do You Drive Faster Than A Speeding Mullet??? — depends, is he driving drunk?
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► DOJ Stereotypes — a bunch of do-gooders
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► 10 day trip. Need advice info from you nine people. — and those nine are...
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► If you could go back in time, what would you tell your younger roadgeek elf? — younger?
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► American Bickers — Canadian argues back
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Mountain Past Signs — when you're driving westbound in eastern Colorado...
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Rand McNally 2012 road atlas...just get mine — because I don't need it anymore
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Two troll-related questions. — first, are Rothman and NE2 sockpuppets of each other?
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► What is the proper way to milepost highways that exit in pieces in a state? — not at all
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Paintless routes — numbered but unstriped highways
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► New pedestrian signals slighted — how rude
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► pinkholes — not going there...
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► What Is Woolen In Your State (re: Signs)? — textile sign panels, anyone?
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Road Damage caused by teat — geez, Kyle, get your mind out of the gutter!
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► MUTCD fan — aren't we all
National Boards ► General Highway Talk ► Diamond interchanges, light timing, and low priority — so... it doesn't matter?

#93

Pacific Southwest / Bridalveil Creek Bridges in Yo...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - June 11, 2025, 01:45:21 PM

I suspected for quite some time that these three bridges just north of Bridalveil Falls were once highway spans.  Turns out they were and in addition to that they were also the first reinforced concrete bridges Yosemite being constructed in 1913:

https://historicbridges.org/california/bridalveilfalls2/ca1639data.pdf

The bridges in question:

https://flic.kr/p/2r9DsGi

https://flic.kr/p/2r9JRue

https://flic.kr/p/2r9K53Q

#94

Photos, Videos, and More / Re: Compdude's Highway videos

Last post by compdude787 - June 11, 2025, 01:36:41 PM

Here's my latest video, showing the drive on US 101 west along Lake Crescent. Enjoy!

#95

Mid-South / Re: I-57 Approved

Last post by Road Hog - June 11, 2025, 01:29:51 PM

Is the bridge over the White River signed as US 67?

I wasn't paying too much attention to the shields there, but I don't think so? GSV seems to confirm that too, as there's some April 2025 imagery showing I-57 shields near Bradford, but not north of there.

The 2025 Arkansas official highway map shows the stretch between exits 69 and 74 as solo US 67.

I thought this might have been covered earlier....this section is approved for farm implement use to cross the White River and they don't have the waiver yet. I don't think there are any farmers left who use it for that purpose, but that is IMHO

The exit numbers are 5 apart but the map shows it at 8 miles. Thought that was odd.

#96

Sports / Re: Formula 1 racing chatter!

Last post by SEWIGuy - June 11, 2025, 01:29:46 PM

Sorry, you're just wrong about this. They do care about the US market and they do know they are taking on Indy head to head.

Well, math is power.

F1 US TV rights are $90M up from zero 4 years ago.  This for an average of 1.1M viewers, which is very low.

Each F1 team, 10 this year, 11 next year, is budgeted for $135M per year.  F1 teams make money, and the series makes money.  Because of what they are paid elsewhere.

Now you are shifting the goalposts. I never said that Europe isn't a more important audience. You claimed that they don't care about the U.S. market - which is false. They do care. They've gone from one race in the United States just a few years ago, to three today. They are trying to more than double their U.S. rights deal for next season.

Again, they know exactly what they are doing putting it up against Indy. It was obviously intentional.

#97

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Indiana looking to add tol...

Last post by I-55 - June 11, 2025, 01:28:39 PM

As the current rules state that all new toll roads will need to be 75 miles apart at minimum, I thought of one that would easily fit this criteria, and that's I-70. Apart from being outside the 75-mile buffer, I can see the state charging tolls for drivers to use it. As for the other free east-west routes (I-64 and I-74), I'm not as certain, as they'd be too close for comfort. North-south, either I-65 or I-69 would be a good candidate for tolls, but not both. If it were up to me, I'd charge the tolls on I-65 and leave I-69 alone.

Also, I like the ability to use cash/card for paying tolls, although ORT is drastically diminishing that option. Plus, I'm not thrilled with the whole thing about getting a bill sent in the mail either, be it from E-ZPass or some other similar agency.

I-64 would be far enough south to not be within the 75 mile distance, but I-64 does not have heavy traffic that would bring in big revenue for a toll road.  I-69 in Southern Indiana does not either.  Your heavy hitters are I-65 and I-70 of which both are basically screaming to be made 6 lanes through the state.  I-74 from Indianapolis to Cincinnati has a good amount of traffic as well, and I-69 to Fort Wayne is nothing to sneeze at.  I'm not too familiar with I-74 west.

I think part of the reason for limiting tolling to the selected interstates is that those are the interstates that demonstrate immediate need for improvement. I-65 and I-70 have been on the table for widening for some time now, and the most recent projects near Richmond and Henryville have seen significant cuts to the extent of the widening. Tolls would fund widening of I-65 and I-70, as well as any improvements to I-94. I-69, I-64, and I-74 are all adequate as 4-lane interstates and will likely only require routine pavement preservation and bridge maintenance over the next 20+ years, which will be assigned funding from the existing budget. Most of the big capital projects are in the Indy area, with several current and future widening and interchange projects on I-465, the completion of I-69, and improvements to US-31.

#98

Mid-Atlantic / Re: The Attempt to Fix Virgini...

Last post by Takumi - June 11, 2025, 01:27:53 PM

I've yet to be able to get out to VA 410 to see if it got posted, but it seems like this is about as far as we're going to get, unless you want to try and shoot for the moon and get US 460 correctly signed from I-95.

#99

Off-Topic / Re: __________ is/are underrat...

Last post by kphoger - June 11, 2025, 01:06:56 PM

Louis Spohr.

Even if you're a fan of classical music, I'd say there's a halfway decent chance you've never heard of him.  This, despite his wide regard as one of the greatest living composers (if not the greatest) during his own lifetime.

#100

Mid-Atlantic / Re: West Virginia

Last post by SP Cook - June 11, 2025, 01:05:46 PM

Does the rest of the state not like Wheeling and the northern panhandle? I'm starting to get that sense, though it has taken me 25 years of watching to start to see it.

It's complicated, but IMHO, people from every part of the state all feel their area is overlooked.  The only part that really has, or had, a gripe is the general Corridor H area, which was ansestorally Republican, when the rest of the state was not.

The thing to get is PM is based in the eastern panhandle.  Look at a map, eastern panhandlers are not going to use the expressways in the main part of the state, excepting maybe to access Morgantown, and most of that travel is in Maryland.  If they go on vacation or whatever, they are using roads in other states.  Unless someone over there is in politics, or some job where they have like a statewide meeting, or have kids in HS sports, many have never been in the main part of WV, ever.

What I tell people is that the different parts of WV are much more like the people in the states they border, than one another.  Where I grew up is much more like eastern KY than any other part of WV, and where I have lived my adult life is much more like southeastern Ohio.  Wheeling is pretty much culturally Pittsburgh and that is very culturally different from most of the rest of the state.