Quote from: abqtraveler on Today at 08:45:20 AMThose piers are for the viaducts that will carry I-69 over the Ohio River floodplain. That area in particular is very prone to flooding whenever there is prolonged rainfall or spring snowmelt, so it makes sense to elevate the highway so it's not shut down every spring when the river floods.
Quote from: paulthemapguy on July 09, 2025, 09:23:22 AMJuly 11: Post the junction of a US highway with a 1 in the tens place and a different US highway with a 1 in the tens place.
Quote from: kkt on July 10, 2025, 01:56:00 PMWhen there's one stripe or dashed line, it should be at the center. When there are two stripes, the center of the road should be between them.
Quote from: kphoger on July 10, 2025, 10:31:20 PMHow is this possible?
Quote from: hbelkins on Today at 11:45:07 AMAlthough if there are any three-head center line paint sprayers in use today, they have to be ancient. The dashed white line hasn't been a thing in 50 years.
Quote from: hbelkins on Today at 11:35:07 AMNope. If the sign was folded down, that meant that there was a truck already on the ramp and no other trucks could use it until the truck already using the ramp was cleared away.
Quote from: kphoger on Today at 09:54:20 AMQuote from: Dirt Roads on July 10, 2025, 10:29:20 PMThat striping technique hails from the days when the dashed line was required to be white.
... although I'm not old enough to remember it actually being a thing.
Quote from: Rothman on June 30, 2025, 03:33:46 PMQuote from: FredAkbar on June 30, 2025, 01:56:16 PMQuote from: mrsman on June 29, 2025, 07:42:59 AMbut they do generally encourage buses on the HOV lanes.
Buses in CA *love* the HOV lanes. Even outside of HOV hours, buses will camp in the left lane holding up traffic (at least here in the Bay Area). It might be that it's safer for them to use the far lane like that rather than a middle lane where they have to contend with traffic on both sides.
Not only in CA. Same in WA.
Quote from: kphoger on July 10, 2025, 03:53:17 PMQuote from: Bitmapped on July 10, 2025, 03:25:51 PMWVDOH used to have flip-down parts of signs for runaway truck ramps that could be used to show when the trucks were in use. They even welded stairs onto the support posts to facilitate workers flipping the sign down: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8DT5N67Fb6QdYeVe7
WVDOH stopped using this style of sign at least a decade ago. New signs no longer have the ability to mark the escape ramp as in use and no longer have the ladder.
typo?