New York State Draft Supplement to the 2009 MUTCD is now online

[Dougtone]

Check out https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/traffic-operations-section/mutcd for all the NYSDOT goodness!

[vdeane]

Looks like NY is planning to go distance-based, though it says nothing as to when.

[agentsteel53]

thank goodness!  non-distance-based exit numbers are just silly.  Any idea if Mass will ever abandon the concept? 

[SidS1045]

The sign on page 239 of the Draft Supplement made me LOL:

Welcome
to
NEW YORK
The Empire State

ALFRED E. SMITH, Governor

I thought this was supposed to be an up-to-date supplement?

[Scott5114]

It is using the most up-to-date results from the 1922 gubernatorial election!

[Dougtone]

The sign on page 239 of the Draft Supplement made me LOL:

Welcome
to
NEW YORK
The Empire State

ALFRED E. SMITH, Governor

I thought this was supposed to be an up-to-date supplement?

New York got rid of the governor's name from the welcome signs when Pataki was governor.  Which is surprising, considering that George Pataki liked putting his name on everything else.

[Scott5114]

I guess they didn't get rid of all of them, though. I have seen photos where Pataki had clearly been patched over by Eliot Spitzer. (And I assume Paterson after that).

[J N Winkler]

It is using the most up-to-date results from the 1922 gubernatorial election!

I think you are seeing traffic sign archaeology at work.  Al Smith was probably actually governor when the first version of that particular guide sign was added to the New York State traffic manual.  It is similar to the way "Roseville 5, Sacramento 23, Oakland 110" has been re-drawn (in California) with the same placeholder names and distances for over 50 years.

[Dougtone]

I guess they didn't get rid of all of them, though. I have seen photos where Pataki had clearly been patched over by Eliot Spitzer. (And I assume Paterson after that).

There is a state welcome sign when entering Hancock, NY from PA 191 (it's a local street on this side of the Delaware River) that had been patched over by Spitzer's name, but was greened out after Paterson became governor.  That's the only one I'm aware of that does this.

[SidS1045]

It is using the most up-to-date results from the 1922 gubernatorial election!

...or 1918, 1924 or 1926.