US 80 in Fort Worth

[austrini]

It lives! (decommissioned here ~ 20 years ago)

[agentsteel53]

that is an amazing find!

several questions:

1) is this a City of Forth Worth administered road?  TxDOT would usually be much more up-to-date on the signage.

2) what were the original contents of that gantry?  it is twice as large as is needed to hold just that one sign.

[austrini]

1) yes Beach St
2) I have no idea, it was probably a bigger sign saying the same thing. The southbound ones are similar. It likely said "Dallas" on it before 1957.

[Brian556]

Did you check to see if the southbound one is still there?
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.747685,-97.289499&spn=0.000009,0.006266&t=m&z=18&layer=c&cbll=32.747685,-97.289499&panoid=jCj_Sw9TZ0KEyLDbvIHyAA&cbp=12,176.62,,0,0

Also, do you know what year this intersection was built? I find it interesting that it is an SPUI, yet it appears to by kinda old.

[NE2]

NBI says 1962, and it shows up on a 1963 aerial: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=3.16426516734239E-06&lat=32.7437023569839&lon=-97.2893389273546&year=1963
The 1970 aerial shows the left turn movements better. This is earlier than the supposed first SPUI (1974). Boom.

[austrini]

Yeah probably early 1960s, the southbound overhead is still there. The lighting was bad, but i'll grab it next time I go over there.