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Beeper1:
The BGSs on RI 78 are probably original from when the road was built in the early 70s. Not was old as the Henderson Bridge BGSs but pretty close.
The signs on the upper part of RI 146 in North Smithfield are from the mid 1980s and almost unreadable at night.
RI has the absolute worst signing practices in the country.
Alps:
--- Quote from: Beeper1 on December 14, 2015, 07:21:59 PM ---The BGSs on RI 78 are probably original from when the road was built in the early 70s. Not was old as the Henderson Bridge BGSs but pretty close.
The signs on the upper part of RI 146 in North Smithfield are from the mid 1980s and almost unreadable at night.
RI has the absolute worst signing practices in the country.
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The signs on RI 78 aren't all that old. They cannot possibly be from the 1970s.
Mergingtraffic:
RI-78 signs aren't button copy but the Henderson Bridge signage is.
I'm guessing Henderson Bridge signage is 1960s and even though the RI-78 signs look beat up and non-reflective, Id' say late 1970s or 1980?
dcbjms:
Recently a good portion of Mineral Spring Ave. (RI 15) FINALLY finished completion, after spending God-knows-how-long working on it. The big holdup? Pawtucket has been progressively and gradually replacing street signs with a new design, with white fancy text on a black background since it matches the new image campaign for the city, so they wanted to install them. However, RIDOT wanted to install ginormous generic street signs because of ADA concerns. RIDOT won the battle of the street signs, and AFAIK Pawtucket is still seething.
Meanwhile, they're still taking forever repairing a bridge. A bridge that happens to be a main artery in the downtown core.
https://goo.gl/maps/66iq3pADR7n
PHLBOS:
--- Quote from: Mergingtraffic on December 16, 2015, 12:23:37 AM ---RI-78 signs aren't button copy but the Henderson Bridge signage is.
I'm guessing Henderson Bridge signage is 1960s and even though the RI-78 signs look beat up and non-reflective, Id' say late 1970s or 1980?
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RIDOT started using reflective BGS' (w/demountable non-button-copy lettering) around the early-to-mid-70s; some of the earliest examples of such were along the Pawtucket-Providence stretch of I-95 that featured full-width, non-bordered exit tabs with the text/numerals right or left-justified depending on exit ramp location (most if not all of these BGS' were replaced at least 2 decades ago).
That said, those old button-copy BGS' (believe it or not) are very likely from the 1960s (the shields may have been replaced once or twice).
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