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Pacific Southwest / Re: Interstate 11 alignment, t...

Last post by Scott5114 - Today at 01:32:40 AM

Overhead surface-street signage at the Rainbow and Lake Mead interchanges has been switched out to include I-11 shields.

#2

Traffic Control / Re: Poor Sign Placement

Last post by CoreySamson - Today at 01:12:18 AM

Resurrecting this topic because of this stupidity on FM 1960 in NW Houston:
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9209306,-95.606963,3a,64.7y,296.62h,90.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svioJ8r8WSN0kV7wNXKJX2Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 (look at Mar 2022 imagery)

Put up within the last year, and already obscured by trees. Really? By the way, this is the only advance signage for US 290 from this direction.

In a strange and positive postscript to this sign story, the obscured assembly was picked up and moved closer to the junction between US 290 and FM 1960...
https://maps.app.goo.gl/pmmx47K19vD1dS5T8

In its place TxDOT added a new shield assembly that is not in any danger of being obscured by those trees, so they eliminated both problems with the old sign (the fact that it was obscured and the fact that it was the only advance signage of the interchange).

#3

Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by CoreySamson - Today at 01:06:21 AM

This is a strange way to mark an exit...
https://maps.app.goo.gl/AuPLMLZ29s8f78vJ7

...but I actually think I like it.

[Thongs in middle of roundabout]

#4

Off-Topic / Re: Changing one letter of a t...

Last post by Scott5114 - Today at 12:50:52 AM

Thongs in middle of roundabout - NSFW

Perfectly work safe (and probably not even unusual) in Australia.

#5

Northeast / Re: Central Susquehanna Valley...

Last post by sprjus4 - Today at 12:30:10 AM

Perhaps the signal timing should be adjusted better to accommodate higher through traffic along US-15?

#6

Traffic Control / Re: Normally covered/dark/blan...

Last post by gonealookin - Today at 12:19:05 AM

For about 7 years we had one of those blank BGS in Carson City.  The freeway ended at Fairview Avenue (now Exit 3), and Fairview Avenue served as temporary mainline US 50/US 395.  This photo was taken in 2010:



The final 3-mile segment of I-580 opened in 2017, and here's what that intersection and signage look like now:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eAfRKrpbVFf3Sewa7

#7

General Highway Talk / Re: XY Challenge

Last post by 74/171FAN - Today at 12:06:59 AM

July 10: Post the junction of a US highway with a 0 in the tens place and a US highway with a 9 in the tens place.

US 92 has an interchange with US 301 while acting as collector-distributor roads for I-4 on the east side of Tampa, FL.

US 92 WEST NEAR US 301 (2) by Mark Moore, on Flickr

#8

Central States / Re: I-44/US-75 Interchange Rec...

Last post by Plutonic Panda - July 09, 2025, 11:55:05 PM

Their website really sucks. It was really good in the early 2010s. They had a lot of information they kept it up. I don't know why they let it go to shit.

#9

General Highway Talk / Re: Worst control city on an i...

Last post by Konza - July 09, 2025, 11:50:58 PM

Every time I drive I-10 past the east end of I-8 near Casa Grande, I question why San Diego is the control city on the exit sign.  Yes, I-8 goes there, and ends there.  But it's 353 miles to the west end of I-8, and a little past halfway, I-8 goes through Yuma which I believe is the most populous city in Arizona outside of Tucson and the Phoenix metropolitan area.  In the winter, the influx of snowbirds certainly earns it that distinction. 

No, Yuma does not have the national stature that San Diego does, but I think the sign would be more effective if it said "Yuma- San Diego" or something to that effect.

#10

Northeast / Re: Central Susquehanna Valley...

Last post by webny99 - July 09, 2025, 11:41:39 PM

I can see how some of the turn-offs could start to become an issue at busier times such as this past weekend. I didn't notice anything like that heading north, but returning south on Sunday I did notice a long line of cars on PA 104 leading back from the intersection with US 11/15, as well as several other intersections where traffic turning left off 11/15 NB had to take  whatever slim gaps they could get and quickly gun it across 11/15 SB. Granted the weekend of the 4th is not your typical weekend traffic-wise, but I wonder if any of these intersections could become problematic in the future with enough increased traffic.

PA 34, PA 17, and PA 104 are the only future "maybes" in my opinion, and even then, the heavier turn movements are mostly only crossing southbound traffic. Also worth noting: the southern CSVT interchange will significantly improve access to US 522 WB. That will likely reduce traffic making the PA 104 turn movement to reach areas such as Kreamer, Kratzerville, and New Berlin. Of course, that could then be countered by increased traffic on US 11/15.

(gawking at the ongoing CSVT construction).

Speaking of, I unintentionally got a nice view of several of the high overpasses currently under construction. US 15 SB had a long backup entering Shamokin Dam that almost extended back to the CSVT interchange, so I diverted onto back roads just south of the CSVT interchange and rejoined 11/15 within Hummels Wharf. And along the way, I wound up with these progress photos:

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Thanks for sharing! And yeah, I noticed that crazy backup on Sunday. It's the one (temporary) downside of the northern section being completed: traffic is completely unhinged coming into Shamokin Dam from the north - and it's almost all coming from US 15 now instead of being more of an even split with US 11 like it used to be.