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#41

General Highway Talk / Re: Daily conversation: What ...

Last post by GaryV - Today at 10:52:20 AM

June 6, 2026

The Monaco Grand Prix is this weekend, and it is one of the oldest road courses, having used the public streets and roads of Monte Carlo since 1929. How would you change the roads to improve the racing?

Scatter bandit's porta-potties filled with random junk throughout the course.
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=37217.msg3047911#msg3047911

#42

General Highway Talk / Re: Daily conversation: What ...

Last post by Big John - Today at 10:51:02 AM

June 6, 2026

The Monaco Grand Prix is this weekend, and it is one of the oldest road courses, having used the public streets and roads of Monte Carlo since 1929. How would you change the roads to improve the racing?

Make the roads 2-way traffic during the race 🏁

#43

General Highway Talk / Re: Daily conversation: What ...

Last post by Max Rockatansky - Today at 10:38:21 AM

June 6, 2026

The Monaco Grand Prix is this weekend, and it is one of the oldest road courses, having used the public streets and roads of Monte Carlo since 1929. How would you change the roads to improve the racing?

Keep the streets open to regular traffic during the race.

#44

General Highway Talk / Re: Daily conversation: What ...

Last post by formulanone - Today at 10:36:30 AM

June 6, 2026

The Monaco Grand Prix is this weekend, and it is one of the oldest road courses, having used the public streets and roads of Monte Carlo since 1929. How would you change the roads to improve the racing?

#45

General Highway Talk / Re: USA Toll Transponder Inter...

Last post by 1995hoo - Today at 10:32:43 AM

With a rental, I wouldn't add it to my E-ZPass account anyway. I did that when I had a SunPass because they let you specify precise dates and times when you were picking up and returning the car. Virginia, at least, doesn't provide that option for E-ZPass, so you risk getting hit for someone else's tolls depending on when charges post.

It's not like the ability doesn't exist for EZ Pass to do that as I can select rental car times and dates for my I-Pass.

I'm sure the capability exists, but they haven't programmed it. Ultimately we didn't pay any tolls on this trip, so it didn't matter. Returned the rental this morning and we're waiting to fly home. I never even took the E-ZPass out of my bag. Call me paranoid, but I didn't want to get it out if I didn't need to use it for fear I'd forget it in the car (I did set a reminder on my phone, but then we got to the airport before the reminder was due).

#46

General Highway Talk / Re: USA Toll Transponder Inter...

Last post by Brandon - Today at 10:27:38 AM

With a rental, I wouldn't add it to my E-ZPass account anyway. I did that when I had a SunPass because they let you specify precise dates and times when you were picking up and returning the car. Virginia, at least, doesn't provide that option for E-ZPass, so you risk getting hit for someone else's tolls depending on when charges post.

It's not like the ability doesn't exist for EZ Pass to do that as I can select rental car times and dates for my I-Pass.

#47

Mid-Atlantic / Re: The Attempt to Fix Virgini...

Last post by The Ghostbuster - Today at 10:27:04 AM

US 13's original southern terminus was unusual to say the least. Makes you wonder what they were thinking back then.

#48

Off-Topic / Re: Porta-Potties

Last post by bandit957 - Today at 10:11:47 AM

I usually go to Oktoberfest in Cincinnati each year, and they have big rows of port-a-potties. People always put things in the toilet bowls. At least once, someone put a metal pickle jar lid in the toilet. Other items include a pair of jeans, a phone book, and a lid from a tub of Blue Bonnet margarine. Miss Blue Bonnet leered at all bathroom goers from the abysmal depths of the toilet bowl. I remember one year when they gave out cardboard fans with the Geico Gecko on them, and people kept putting them in the toilets.

#49

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by paulthemapguy - Today at 09:39:15 AM

June 6: Post signage indicating a concurrency between two routes, of which one route has a number ending in 4, and the other route has a number ending in 6.

US276 joins US64 for a bit in Brevard, NC


NC-US276-US64SNR by Paul Across America, on Flickr

IL34 joins IL146 for a bit near Rosiclare. Photo taken in 2008.


IL-034-146WS by Paul Across America, on Flickr

US36 and Ohio 4 in Milford Center, OH


OH-US36-004DS by Paul Across America, on Flickr

Coming up next:
June 7: Post signage indicating a concurrency between two routes, of which one route has a number ending in 4, and the other route has a number ending in 7.
June 8: Post signage indicating a concurrency between two routes, of which one route has a number ending in 4, and the other route has a number ending in 8.
June 9: Post signage indicating a concurrency between two routes, of which one route has a number ending in 4, and the other route has a number ending in 9.
June 10: Post signage indicating a concurrency between two routes, where both involved routes have a number ending in 5.

#50

Southeast / Re: Atlanta

Last post by Tom958 - Today at 09:34:20 AM

How is it a screw up if the signage is accurate?

As I already said: inadequate notification of the public.

Through what means?  Press releases and social media?

I find signage on the ground much more helpful.

Of course. Both are needed, and the signage really ought to have been enough. It wasn't, though. Along those lines, one doesn't have to be a roadgeek to look forward to opening of the new ramps and see that it'd be happening soon. There are a lot of oblivious people here. Most had learned their lesson by Friday morning despite Google Maps and others not yet being corrected, though there was still congestion from turnarounds at Candler Road.