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Rhode Island mileage based exit numbers?

Started by vdeane, April 27, 2014, 05:17:27 PM

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yakra

knock a hole or 2 off that golf course
the fake tits white man gave mother nature
ain't nobody what counts gonna miss it
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SectorZ

Quote from: yakra on September 23, 2017, 02:37:49 AM
knock a hole or 2 off that golf course
the fake tits white man gave mother nature
ain't nobody what counts gonna miss it

Um, what?

Duke87

#52
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on September 23, 2017, 01:01:01 AM
current Exit 4 WB becomes Exit 2A, and Exit 5 becomes Exit 2 EB, Exit 2B WB.

Yuck. RIDOT is being a little meticulous here in all the wrong ways.

I mean I get that exit 4 WB is closer to mile 2, but 3/4 are effectively the same interchange, so why not just make that exit 1 both ways? Then you can just make exit 5 exit 2, and not have the mess of it being 2 EB and 2B WB.

The same interchange having a different exit number in each direction is potentially confusion-inducing due to its inconsistency, and RIDOT in their infinite wisdom wants to do this for *both* interchanges on RI 78 when it would be easy to do it for neither. :pan:

Of course, it is RIDOT.
If you always take the same road, you will never see anything new.

bob7374


Alps


bob7374

Quote from: Alps on October 06, 2017, 12:27:18 AM
http://www.dot.ri.gov/projects/exitnumbers/index.php

Missing 138?? And 6? But they got the one exit on TF Green connector??
Guess they heard about Cape Cod residents not liking the numbers MassDOT was planning to assign for US 6 (starting at 55) and decided not to do risk the entire project by pushing similar 'illogical' numbers for those routes.

RIDOT has set up its own webpage listing (and mapping) the new I-295 exit numbers:
http://www.dot.ri.gov/projects/exitnumbers/index.php

jp the roadgeek

Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

bob7374

Quote from: jp the roadgeek on October 06, 2017, 01:42:32 AM
Also missing RI 146.
RI 146 will be getting its own set of numbers with a signage replacement contract to be let in December. The project will be done in 3 phases. With the first phase new gore signs with the new numbers will be placed at exits not having their signs replaced until the later phases are done.

southshore720

I just hope they pick a good contractor for the RI 146 signs and use the correct R.I. trailblazer shields for the BGSs.  146 has been the RIDOT stepchild for many, many years.  Inadequate signage, dangerous on-ramps (esp. 116 N to 146 S), broken light towers.  And don't get me started on the Sayles Hill Road signalized intersection!

AMLNet49

#59
Quote from: southshore720 on October 17, 2017, 11:26:07 AM
I just hope they pick a good contractor for the RI 146 signs and use the correct R.I. trailblazer shields for the BGSs.  146 has been the RIDOT stepchild for many, many years.  Inadequate signage, dangerous on-ramps (esp. 116 N to 146 S), broken light towers.  And don't get me started on the Sayles Hill Road signalized intersection!
Theres no excuse for that signalized intersection, the RI one is in an important spot, needs to go

Beeper1

The one in Mass is in just as important a spot as the one in RI.  In a congested commuter corridor in the suburbs of Worcester.   Both of these lights cause some pretty heinous back-ups in evening rush hour. 

bob7374

The RIDOT website for the Exit Renumbering Project has added this information about I-295, it appears that project will only take 2 weeks:
"I-295 Timeline. The project will proceed from north to south, The contractor will complete renumbering each interchange before moving to the next interchange. The schedule is as follows:

Week of November 27 - Old exits 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11
Week of December 4: Old exits 1, 2 and 4
The Exit 3/Route 37 interchange is located at Mile Marker 3, and will not need to be changed. All schedules are weather dependent and subject to change."

jp the roadgeek

Pretty similar to what I have without an exit 0.  I did not give an exit number to I-95 North since it technically a situation where a duplexes route's mainline (US 6), briefly joins I-95.

Eastbound

Exit 1: Gano St/India Point
Exit 2A: US 44 East
Exit 2B: RI 103 East
Exit 3A: RI 103/East Providence
Exit 3B: RI 114 South
Exit 4: US 6 East/US 1A North TO RI 114 North

Westbound

Exit 3: TO US 44/RI 103
Exit 2: Gano St/India Point
Exit 1D: US 44 West/ US 1A South
Exit 1C: Eddy St
Exit 1B: Point St
Exit 1A: I-95 South
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

Mergingtraffic

Interesting they plan to do RI-78 as well.  I wonder if this will also coincide with new signage.  I know they are the last remaining non-reflective signs in the state.

I only take pics of good looking signs. Long live non-reflective button copy!
MergingTraffic https://www.flickr.com/photos/98731835@N05/

southshore720

I would put money on RIDOT going to all LGS on the entire RI 78 stretch.  RIDOT LOVES the LGSs.  Smaller, harder to read...that's the RIDOT way.

Alps

Quote from: southshore720 on November 24, 2017, 01:51:17 AM
I would put money on RIDOT going to all LGS on the entire RI 78 stretch.  RIDOT LOVES the LGSs.  Smaller, harder to read...that's the RIDOT way.
Also sounds like my ex-girlfriend :-D

bob7374

RIDOT's Travel Advisory website has been updated for the next week and includes an entry for shoulder closings Monday to Thursday nights for the exit renumbering project on both I-295 and RI 99. Here's the entry for the latter:
"Rte. 99 North and South, from Rte. 146 to Rte. 122 (Mendon Rd.), shoulder closures in a moving operation for exit renumbering, Monday-Thursday nights from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following day." The same days and hours for I-295. You wouldn't think it would take all week to take care of RI 99. 

jp the roadgeek

RI 99 and all 1 of its exits? Would take 20 years and 5 EIS's if it were ConnDOT.
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

lowerdeck

Tonight's the start night of the renumber project, starting with the Cumberland exits.

If the two week timetable is to be believed for 295, then we're probably looking at Cumberland (114 and 122) tonight, 146 tomorrow night, Smithfield (7 and 44) Wednesday, US 6 by the weekend

bob7374

Looks like there a little behind schedule. RIDOT posted photos from the changes made for the RI 122 exit last night on their Facebook page and said they were doing Exit 10 tonight. Here's one of the photos they posted:


I have posted the others on a new section at the top of my Misc. Photos page:
http://www.malmeroads.net/mass21c/miscsigns.html

roadman

Placement of the "OLD EXIT XX" tab above the new exit tab, especially when retrofitting existing signs, always concerns me due to potential wind loading issues.
"And ninety-five is the route you were on.  It was not the speed limit sign."  - Jim Croce (from Speedball Tucker)

"My life has been a tapestry
Of years of roads and highway signs" (with apologies to Carole King and Tom Rush)

bob7374

#71
Quote from: Alps on October 06, 2017, 12:27:18 AM
http://www.dot.ri.gov/projects/exitnumbers/index.php

Missing 138?? And 6? But they got the one exit on TF Green connector??
The website has been updated to indicate completion of changing numbers for former exits 8B, 9, 10 and 11. The original plan called for completion from Exit 5 northward by this time, this has been revised saying all the remaining exits are to be renumbered next week. Given that they have only been able to do 1 exit a night, and next week they will be working Sunday through Thursday nights, it's logical to assume there will still may be 1 (as in old Exit 1) to be completed at the end of this coming week.

jp the roadgeek

Interesting thing: Google Maps has updated I-295's exit numbers northbound, but left the old numbers southbound.
Interstates I've clinched: 97, 290 (MA), 291 (CT), 291 (MA), 293, 295 (DE-NJ-PA), 295 (RI-MA), 384, 391, 395 (CT-MA), 395 (MD), 495 (DE), 610 (LA), 684, 691, 695 (MD), 695 (NY), 795 (MD)

bob7374

The RIDOT Renumbering Project website reports all the exit numbers along I-295 have been changed as of early this morning (with the exception of Exit 3 at MM 3). The travel advisory page also removed the notice about exit renumbering work along RI 99 from its list as of last Saturday, so that project has been completed as well.

bob7374

With the news that the I-295 Exit Renumbering Project was complete, I took a road trip down to take a look on Monday. I've posted photos of many of the new exit numbered signs, including this overhead approaching the RI 146 exit,:


and this ground-mounted sign for RI 7:


on the space on my Misc. Mass. Road Photos page that I had reserved for the Massachusetts Exit Renumbering Project:
http://www.malmeroads.net/mass21c/miscsigns.html
Which until that is started will be devoted to RI and CT's exit renumbering projects.

Also photos for the new exit number signs on RI 99.



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