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#11

General Highway Talk / Re: Roads you have never trave...

Last post by LilianaUwU - May 20, 2024, 10:25:48 PM

Mine are:

Ontario: ON 11, ON 64 (both with ON 17)
Québec: A-55 (with A-20 and A-40), QC 101 (with QC 117), QC 234 (with QC 132), QC 263 (with QC 165), QC 311 (with QC 117), QC 395 (with QC 111)
Prince Edward Island: PE 9 (with PE 1), PE 218 (with PE 2), PE 222 (with PE 2), PE 260 (with PE 2), PE 313 (with PE 2)

#12

Traffic Control / Re: Road Sign UNO

Last post by Henry - May 20, 2024, 10:02:40 PM

MD 372:

#13

Northwest / Re: What the hell is this?

Last post by Henry - May 20, 2024, 10:00:41 PM

I guess this would make the most sense, to have permanent detour signs already in place when a road is under construction. Unconventional, but a great way to prepare for the inevitable.

#14

Sports / Re: General NBA thread

Last post by Henry - May 20, 2024, 09:57:04 PM

I'm calling it right now: Wolves vs. Celtics in the NBA Finals!

#15

General Highway Talk / Re: Marked County Road Concurr...

Last post by LilianaUwU - May 20, 2024, 09:48:17 PM

There are some of them in New Jersey, though not always with pentagons.

#16

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

Last post by roadman65 - May 20, 2024, 09:43:05 PM

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wGw4s4nbfuHJPhsn9
This is the welcome sign to the State of Pennsylvania for US 6/209 from New York.

Gateway instead of Welcome is most unusual.

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#17

General Highway Talk / Re: Roads you have never trave...

Last post by 74/171FAN - May 20, 2024, 09:36:06 PM

Latest Update:

Added: None

Modified: None

Removed:
OH 149 (US 40)
PA 331 (PA 231)
WV 67 (WV 88)

#18

General Highway Talk / Marked County Road Concurrent ...

Last post by Avalanchez71 - May 20, 2024, 09:32:46 PM

How many marked county roads are out there with the county pentagon signed along with the US highways? 

US 85/CR 12 Zahl, ND as an example.

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.5037927,-103.6243253,3a,15y,23.26h,87.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-7gSEAnp_ADMrSky8ka7ow!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

#19

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Illinois notes

Last post by pianocello - May 20, 2024, 09:10:02 PM

I'm often wondered if DOTs Fully weigh the cost of full closures Versus setting up a construction zone to let through traffic go through it.

Some areas seem to have viable alternatives that wouldn't add too much time to the route and with a temporary reconfiguration of the road they could move traffic on and off the interstates pretty efficiently. But they still insist on requiring lane of traffic to be open at all times with some exceptions during weekends and nights.

I may be wrong on this, but I think a lot of projects could get done quicker and cheaper, Well, at least quicker, If they did full closures in 24 hour construction work so as long as they're not near residential areas.

IDOT actually does take this into account. There's a part of the planning/Phase 1 part of a project dedicated to traffic management analysis, where they determine what to do with traffic during construction. Other states do something similar. I don't work on that aspect myself, but I've seen these analyses and part of it assigns a dollar value to the construction components, detour signage, variable message signs, and it includes a human cost that assigns a dollar value to a traveler's time.

So they do consider full closures and detours, but it usually takes a really low volume or short detour for that option to be chosen, just because the human cost adds up so quickly.

#20

Central States / Re: Missouri

Last post by Rothman - May 20, 2024, 08:49:24 PM

Missouri really needs to clamp down on outdoor advertising. I-70 is just one billboard after another.

Missouri really needs to clamp down on outdoor advertising. I-70 is just one billboard after another.

Pfft.  No.

Though I haven't been to Europe, One thing that stands out to me in particular along Europe's motorways of which they have a very vast system that seems to be equal to the United States' Is their rural freeways Seem to be surrounded by very picturesque land and scenery. I've noticed in a lot of the states there's abandoned houses, Buildings, And just straight up aesthetically unpleasing circumstances.

Amazing what happens if your country has a halfway decent social safety net.