Clearview in Louisiana (I-49 southbound, US 190 eastbound, St. Landry Parish)

[lamsalfl]

[Truvelo]

The 5th picture appears to contain Highway Gothic unless I'm mistaken

[lamsalfl]

yeah they didn't replace that one yet.

[agentsteel53]

and an outline shield.  When does LA use the white shields, and when do they use the outline ones?  I've never noticed a pattern to it.

[UptownRoadGeek]

That's actually scary, lol. New signs in my area are still gothic so far.
The outlines are old and were replaced with the white ones. Outlines that weren't replaced often pop up in rural areas.

[Anthony_JK]

They haven't gotten yet to switching out the BGS's on the overhead gantries yet...I guess they are saving that for later.

And, they are gradually switching out the "outline" state signs for white ones....just as they are taking their time with switching out the green state desigation signs with the black and white. They have placed a few over at the Creswell Lane (LA 31) interchange with I-49/US 167.


Anthony

[lamsalfl]

When all the signs on I-10 were changed in Slidell in late 2009 (or early 2010), they still use the old font.  This includes brand new overheads that replaced ground level signage.

[UptownRoadGeek]

Maybe it's district thing since clearview seems to only be popping up up around  Lafayette. They've been replacing BGS overheads and road signs around  here all year still using the old fonts. To be honest, I don't want to see it here unless they switch to uniform sigh heights and wide exit tabs. I don't see that happening and if it did we'd really look like LaDOTD was trying to be like TxDOT as if they aren't. New Orleans area freeways feel to gothic for clearview, but it would probably look nice in Baton Rouge. On another note, I saw my first black and white state shield in New Orleans.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

That sign for the US 190 exit (5th picture down), just looks plain ugly.  Spacing is off or something.

[lamsalfl]

That sign for the US 190 exit (5th picture down), just looks plain ugly.  Spacing is off or something.

You hate my sign? 

[agentsteel53]

the shield is too small, and putting the arrow next to one city but not the other forces the spacing between cities to be abnormally large, as well as gives an unbalanced look.

I won't even get into the inherent ugliness of the 1970-spec bloater shield.

[brownpelican]

Maybe it's district thing since clearview seems to only be popping up up around  Lafayette. They've been replacing BGS overheads and road signs around  here all year still using the old fonts. To be honest, I don't want to see it here unless they switch to uniform sigh heights and wide exit tabs. I don't see that happening and if it did we'd really look like LaDOTD was trying to be like TxDOT as if they aren't. New Orleans area freeways feel to gothic for clearview, but it would probably look nice in Baton Rouge. On another note, I saw my first black and white state shield in New Orleans.

They're slowly popping up on the Northshore...mainly with points of interest/attractions.

[codyg1985]

I noticed that Baton Rouge uses Clearview on its street signs mounted on traffic signal mast arms (most of them backlit).