Daily Picture Challenge!

[Thing 342]

January 7: Post a picture of two or more BGSs mounted to something other than a gantry.

[TravelingBethelite]

January 7: Post a picture of two or more BGSs mounted to something other than a gantry.

I-70 West at Exit 180A - Interstate 77 South, Cambridge, Ohio

[jbnv]

The date may be set incorrectly on my computer. I'm certain that I looked at the date and saw January 7. I was wondering why nobody had posted a new challenge yet for that day. I'll have to check that back at the office on Monday. Sorry about that.

[jmd41280]

January 7: Post a picture of two or more BGSs mounted to something other than a gantry.

I-283 at I-83 and US 322 (Eisenhower Interchange) - Harrisburg, PA


Eisenhower Interchange - Harrisburg, PA by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[jbnv]

Found another good one in my collection:


Interstate 45 Advance Signage by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[empirestate]

The date may be set incorrectly on my computer. I'm certain that I looked at the date and saw January 7. I was wondering why nobody had posted a new challenge yet for that day. I'll have to check that back at the office on Monday. Sorry about that.

No problem! I just wondered if you'd taken a trip to the Far East or something. No harm done.

[dgolub]

I feel like we're about to wind up with a whole lot of overpasses today.

[paulthemapguy]

Would a simple mast arm pole count as a gantry?  I've got photos of those.

[jbnv]

Would a simple mast arm pole count as a gantry?  I've got photos of those.

Yes. Too easy. (Perhaps I should have said something other than a bridge as well as a gantry, since there are plenty of those.)

[Ian]

January 7: Post a picture of two or more BGSs mounted to something other than a gantry.

Hopping on the bridge BGS train...

[1995hoo]

January 7: Post a picture of two or more BGSs mounted to something other than a gantry.

[MNHighwayMan]

January 8 challenge: 'BEGIN' route markers

Begin west MN-5


Begin east MN-244

[dgolub]

Begin Northern Parkway on Long Island:

[Jim]

January 8 challenge: 'BEGIN' route markers

The ones below are all legitimate beginnings of routes.  An interesting sub-challenge or future challenge might be begin signs that are erroneous or misleading.

Way back to July 29, 1999, when I first visited the beginning of I-90 East in Seattle.



I know we've seen these in other threads, but here's the beginning of US 20 East in Newport, Oregon.  July 19, 2004.



Then to Chicago for the beginning of I-55 South.  July 15, 2007.

[MNHighwayMan]

Then to Chicago for the beginning of I-55 South.  July 15, 2007.

Neat! I actually got a picture at that same spot December 19th, which now uses a green sign instead:

[formulanone]

January 8 challenge: 'BEGIN' route markers

SR 869 in Sunrise, Florida:


County Road R52 in Peoria, Illinois:


A "Begin/End" duo near Minneapolis:

[MNHighwayMan]

SR 869 in Sunrise, Florida:

What does the "SYSTEM" sign mean?

Edit: I'll make another contribution to the challenge as well:

[wanderer2575]

January 8 challenge: 'BEGIN' route markers

US-24 just before I-75 in Independence Township, MI.  (Cardinal direction changes to EAST WEST in Toledo, OH.)




US-34 at IL-43 in Berwyn, IL (Chicago suburbs).




An unusual use of a BEGIN banner on the intersecting route, not the beginning route itself, near Midland, MI.

[corco]

Where Colorado's refusal to sign concurrencies leads to errors

[empirestate]

I'd actually been thinking of a Challenge for BEGIN and END markers posted on the same assembly, so we'll take that as a subset of this Challenge.

January 8 challenge: 'BEGIN' route markers

A "Begin/End" duo near Minneapolis:

Edit: I'll make another contribution to the challenge as well:

Where Colorado's refusal to sign concurrencies leads to errors

[formulanone]

SR 869 in Sunrise, Florida:

What does the "SYSTEM" sign mean?

"SYSTEM" means it was part of the Florida's Turnpike System:


Not all toll roads in Florida are part of the the Turnpike System; many toll bridges, Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX) routes, the Orchid Pond Parkway, and a few Orlando-area toll roads (among others) are not part of the Turnpike System. I think all non-System toll roads in Florida take SunPass, but a few bridges do not.

The route I posted above, the Sawgrass Expressway, was not part of that system until it became clear a few years after opening, that the bonds would take several decades get paid off. While it seemed like a bit of a boondoggle at the time, there's now lots of traffic, due to encroaching development and population growth along that route.

[MNHighwayMan]

Ah, good to know. The one and only time I've ever been to Florida was when I was eleven or twelve; I'm a month away from being 25 now.

[Ian]

January 8 challenge: 'BEGIN' route markers

I'm currently uploading all of my road photos from my cross country trip this past summer to Flickr, and I just uploaded a ton of Nevada stuff. Here are two I took in Clark County for NV 172 and I-515.

[Dougtone]

There's actually a few examples of BEGIN signs around Suffolk County, Long Island.

[Jim]

January 8 challenge: 'BEGIN' route markers

The ones below are all legitimate beginnings of routes.  An interesting sub-challenge or future challenge might be begin signs that are erroneous or misleading.

Examples of misleading:

Where Virginia 207 ends and merges into a US 301 that had already been in existence for several hundred miles, in Bowling Green.  May 25, 2005.



And when I-80 merges into a very much already existing I-95 in northern NJ.  April 29, 2006.



And similarly, where I-280 ends and merges into I-80 West in NJ.  July 9, 2007.