The Best of Road Signs

[NE2]

What's the purpose of Google Street View if it blurs out road signs?

Huh? If you're talking about my link, that's zoomed in on a low-resolution photo.

[hbelkins]

It looked like blurred signs, the way that Google sometimes blurs license plates.

OK, second time I tried it, it looked like a cow. 

[agentsteel53]

in Louisiana, there are also examples of this shape which are getting harder to find.

[Alex]

in Louisiana, there are also examples of this shape which are getting harder to find.

The ones with series C are probably my favorites. Here is the second northbound shield for US 61, which I posted in an updated guide for US 61 north.



Another one from Covington along the US 190 mainline:

[mcdonaat]

in Louisiana, there are also examples of this shape which are getting harder to find.

You mean like this one?

Super, super rare... only about three left in existence. Not only that, but we had the same style for US 71/167, US 61/190, and US 80/165.

[agentsteel53]

nope, your diagram shows a standard '61 spec.  mine has a different shield shape.

[mcdonaat]

Ahh, yours has the bulging shape. I've actually never seen this style outside of Louisiana.

[Roadsguy]

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=39.417944,-94.153905&spn=0.015118,0.033023&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.417851,-94.153915&panoid=rT9Qq59-euod4DCmIv3WFw&cbp=12,247.25,,1,5.67

In a word(?):

[hbelkins]

Ahh, yours has the bulging shape. I've actually never seen this style outside of Louisiana.

It's rare you DON'T see one in Alabama.

[Alex]

Ahh, yours has the bulging shape. I've actually never seen this style outside of Louisiana.

It's rare you DON'T see one in Alabama.

Was going to mention Alabama as well. Seems that is the standard shield in most installations by ALDOT. County installs tend to be either of an odd variety or the bland 1970 spec.

[Alps]

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=39.417944,-94.153905&spn=0.015118,0.033023&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.417851,-94.153915&panoid=rT9Qq59-euod4DCmIv3WFw&cbp=12,247.25,,1,5.67

Now what about B and AA?

[Dr Frankenstein]

what is the difference between a generic 2 and an SD&G 34?  different shield style, or actually different jurisdiction?

I'd assume they're both Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry County roads, or no?

Just a different style. Both are Storming-Dundas-Glengarry roads, and both cross county boundaries while retaining their number (although 34 becomes a provincial highway in Prescott-Russell). Old hwy 2 is more notorious though (linking Montreal and Toronto).

[Duke87]

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=39.417944,-94.153905&spn=0.015118,0.033023&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.417851,-94.153915&panoid=rT9Qq59-euod4DCmIv3WFw&cbp=12,247.25,,1,5.67

Now what about B and AA?

Dunno about that, but I can give you Y and YZ!

[hbelkins]

Dunno about that, but I can give you Y and YZ!

I prefer "La Villa Strangiato," myself.

[formulanone]

Dunno about that, but I can give you Y and YZ!

I prefer "La Villa Strangiato," myself.

Fly By Night at YYZ?

[Central Avenue]

All from Pataskala, Ohio:

[Kacie Jane]

Those street blades are very reminiscent of the older ones still hanging around the Nyack, NY area. http://goo.gl/maps/7lpZj

[Alps]

Those street blades are very reminiscent of the older ones still hanging around the Nyack, NY area. http://goo.gl/maps/7lpZj

Fairly common variety. Many, many, too many to name towns around NJ and PA (and the other states) have them still or had them until recently.

[Kacie Jane]

Those street blades are very reminiscent of the older ones still hanging around the Nyack, NY area. http://goo.gl/maps/7lpZj

Fairly common variety. Many, many, too many to name towns around NJ and PA (and the other states) have them still or had them until recently.

Real nice to look at, though.

[thenetwork]

Wow, I forgot about all those yellow "permit" signs, which date back to at least the 1960s.  Those were on pretty much any traffic control device (intersection signals, school zones, etc...) from the era. 

Anyone know the history of the Ohio Signal Permits (how long they were issued, why they were issued [Non-ODOT installs??], is there on-line access to a master list of all of the permits???) 

[apeman33]

Those street blades are very reminiscent of the older ones still hanging around the Nyack, NY area. http://goo.gl/maps/7lpZj

Fairly common variety. Many, many, too many to name towns around NJ and PA (and the other states) have them still or had them until recently.

The black-and-white versions of those were the ones used in Garden City, Kan., when I was growing up. And those signs may have been responsible for my first roadgeeking moments.

[D-Dey65]

Perhaps this is just a matter of opinion, but here are two on the south side of Rockville Centre LIRR station that I like a lot.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rockville_Centre_LIRR_Station;_Two-Way_Traffic_Sign.JPG


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rockville_Centre_LIRR_Station;_Do_Not_Enter_Sign.JPG

[national highway 1]

[Takumi]

Discovered these two state-name I-95 shields at exit 24 in Middle of Nowhere, VA. (There's literally nothing there.) Had I known just how little traffic uses this exit, I would have gotten out and taken less terrible pictures. In this first photo, the one on the right is the state-name one.




This one is at the Davis Travel Center.

[Alps]

There are plenty of state-name VA shields - in the greater DC area, and to an older spec. New-spec state name shields are indeed rare.