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Title: Old Freeway signs
Post by: VCB02FromRoblox on May 06, 2014, 01:12:19 PM
This topic is to show off any old freeway signs you've seen.
What freeway signs could really use a replacement in your opinion? Or have already been replaced.
I'll start:
(https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_03.jpg)
(https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_04.jpg)
(https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_05.jpg)
(https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_035a_03.jpg)

BTW I don't live in MD.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: PHLBOS on May 06, 2014, 01:17:32 PM
IMHO, those MD examples along I-95 don't really need to be replaced.  The exit tabs, which were clearly added later, have less reflectivitiy than the original button-copy BGS'.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: VCB02FromRoblox on May 06, 2014, 01:20:04 PM
Quote from: PHLBOS on May 06, 2014, 01:17:32 PM
IMHO, those MD examples along I-95 don't really need to be replaced.  The exit tabs, which were clearly added later, have less reflectivitiy than the original button-copy BGS'.

I noticed that. Well. All those signs have already been replaced anyway...
Clearview as you expected....

https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_08.jpg
https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_09.jpg
https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_10.jpg
https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_035_02.jpg
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: BrianP on May 06, 2014, 02:12:33 PM
There's still an old one at I-695:
http://goo.gl/maps/sMGp4

The sign on the left was replaced.  It was this:
https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_049_03.jpg
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: Zeffy on May 06, 2014, 02:14:39 PM
Stealing from AARoads.com (since I can't take photos myself... and I'm sure Alex won't mind  :)):

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/new_jersey095/i-095_nb_exit_007a_07.jpg)

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/new_jersey095/i-095_nb_exit_008_01.jpg)
R.I.P.  :-(

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/new_jersey095/i-095_nb_exit_010_10.jpg)

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/new_jersey280/i-280_wb_exit_017b_01.jpg)

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/new_jersey050/i-078_eb_exit_017_01.jpg)
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: SidS1045 on May 06, 2014, 03:41:14 PM
In far worse shape now than it was when this picture was taken:

http://goo.gl/maps/62mv8
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: roadman on May 06, 2014, 03:46:03 PM
Quote from: SidS1045 on May 06, 2014, 03:41:14 PM
In far worse shape now than it was when this picture was taken:

http://goo.gl/maps/62mv8

And will be going away for good shortly, once the structure and other signs are replaced under the ongoing I-95 Wellseley to Lexington sign replacement project.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: VCB02FromRoblox on May 06, 2014, 06:05:02 PM
Quote from: SidS1045 on May 06, 2014, 03:41:14 PM
In far worse shape now than it was when this picture was taken:

http://goo.gl/maps/62mv8

Wow... that I-95 shield is really faded.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: VCB02FromRoblox on May 06, 2014, 06:10:48 PM
Another old freeway sign, A truck had struck it and the sign revealed an original button copy route shield for MD 212 on southbound I-95. I also noticed the exit tabs look older than the ones heading northbound I-95.
(https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_sb_exit_029b_05.jpg)
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: hbelkins on May 06, 2014, 10:08:26 PM
I took this picture in the fall of 2009 just a few weeks before the sign was damaged:

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.millenniumhwy.net%2F2009_Northeast_Day_5%2FImages%2F408.jpg&hash=cc9fbba0aaac57a164613e6bc73736fc5f7c81c8)
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: jakeroot on May 06, 2014, 10:41:56 PM
Two in a row near Tacoma, WA:

Center BGS is one of the last button copies in Washington. Sign on right and left both are old enough that they cover up the old WA-410 designation from the early 70s.

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FoYnToul.png&hash=de1b3c2b8e071f53234973c5e87a9d592bb30259)
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: Alex on May 07, 2014, 07:37:52 AM
The oldest I can recall seeing were these in Philadelphia:

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/pennsylvania999/passyunk_av_eb_at_i-076_wb.jpg)

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/pennsylvania999/passyunk_av_wb_at_i-076_wb.jpg)

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/pennsylvania999/oregon_av_nb_at_i-076_wb.jpg)
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: BrianP on May 07, 2014, 02:27:33 PM
They really need to put this one out of its misery in Camden NJ:
http://goo.gl/maps/IAx7q
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: hotdogPi on May 07, 2014, 03:29:23 PM
Quote from: BrianP on May 07, 2014, 02:27:33 PM
They really need to put this one out of its misery in Camden NJ:
http://goo.gl/maps/IAx7q

Just remove the vandalism and straighten it. No replacement needed.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: Zeffy on May 07, 2014, 03:35:22 PM
Quote from: 1 on May 07, 2014, 03:29:23 PM
Just remove the vandalism and straighten it. No replacement needed.

I would patch up the I-676 shield as well, but yeah, no replacement needed here.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: PHLBOS on May 08, 2014, 05:48:49 PM
Quote from: Alex on May 07, 2014, 07:37:52 AM
The oldest I can recall seeing were these in Philadelphia:

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/pennsylvania999/passyunk_av_eb_at_i-076_wb.jpg)

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/pennsylvania999/passyunk_av_wb_at_i-076_wb.jpg)

(https://www.aaroads.com/northeast/pennsylvania999/oregon_av_nb_at_i-076_wb.jpg)

Those are long gone (http://goo.gl/maps/PL6Z2); but those likely were the original Expressway signage and when the road was initially PA 43.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: corco on May 08, 2014, 08:17:10 PM
This fellow on the left has held up nice- I took this photo in 2010, but it was still there when I was in the area a few weeks ago

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corcohighways.org%2Fhighways%2Fwy%2F25%2F96to25douglas%2F4.jpg&hash=765f2b0d18d42fa539d838e7999f766ecd9baf2c)
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: SidS1045 on May 08, 2014, 10:43:35 PM
Quote from: VCB02FromRoblox on May 06, 2014, 06:05:02 PM
Wow... that I-95 shield is really faded.

At this point in time you can't even tell that the I-95 shield was ever painted or numbered.  The green reflective sheet on the rest of the BGS is in shreds.

Roadman's prediction can't come soon enough.  It's beyond being an embarassment.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: JoePCool14 on May 09, 2014, 07:17:19 AM
Drive down I-94 into Chicago and you'll see plenty of button-copy (and some very ugly Clearview). Most button copy signs on Tollways have been replaced with Clearview now.  :banghead:
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: jakeroot on May 09, 2014, 04:40:43 PM
Quote from: JoePCool14 on May 09, 2014, 07:17:19 AM
Drive down I-94 into Chicago and you'll see plenty of button-copy (and some very ugly Clearview). Most button copy signs on Tollways have been replaced with Clearview now.  :banghead:

I don't really follow anything in Illinois, but I just plopped street view down on a select few points on the Tollway, and the Clearview seems pretty good? A few negative-contrast uses but that's nothing new.
Title: Re: Old Freeway signs
Post by: JoePCool14 on May 10, 2014, 03:49:05 PM
Quote from: jake on May 09, 2014, 04:40:43 PM
Quote from: JoePCool14 on May 09, 2014, 07:17:19 AM
Drive down I-94 into Chicago and you'll see plenty of button-copy (and some very ugly Clearview). Most button copy signs on Tollways have been replaced with Clearview now.  :banghead:

I don't really follow anything in Illinois, but I just plopped street view down on a select few points on the Tollway, and the Clearview seems pretty good? A few negative-contrast uses but that's nothing new.

Anyone have a pic of their new iPass tollbooth signs please?