I didn't have time to pull out my camera upon seeing it, but there is at SW 6th Ave at Broadway in Portland a shield assembly with an I-405 and a (cutout) US 26 shield, replacing an older button copy sign.
Is this any different from the cutout US 3 shields in Massachusetts?
(other than the number and location, obviously)
So did they just copy the far superior state to the east?
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corcohighways.org%2F26cutout.jpg&hash=eed88cff0037292e1f968480bf4c49c25c18d511)
Or is it something different?
Quote from: corco on May 08, 2014, 07:12:24 PM
So did they just copy the far superior state to the east?
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corcohighways.org%2F26cutout.jpg&hash=eed88cff0037292e1f968480bf4c49c25c18d511)
Or is it something different?
Similar setup, minus the third shield.
Facing west, the assembly has
...........---->
NORTH...|....WEST
(I-405)-----(US 26)
.....|...............|
.....|...............|
With the reverse just behind that facing east, coming off of Broadway.
I don't recall the numbers being obnoxiously large, but it's hard to tell having just caught a glimpse of it.
Also, Idaho's landlocked. Oregon is superior just by having a coastline ;)
So the one spotted in Portland is a borderless cutout (meant to go on a BGS), rather than like the ones in California, or Virginia (also bordered cutouts, without the "US" on Caltrans-spec markers)?
I see such borderless cutouts in places not known as cutout heavens, such as Indiana, or even in Maryland (just saw a pair at the exit from the park-and-ride at the junction of MD 424 with US 50/301). I've always thought those were contractor errors, as the US 26 cutout in Portland and the one in the photo from Idaho might be.
I know Oregon resists "Californication", but Caltrans-spec cutouts would be a nice import.
The Caltrans spec would be ideal, but I'll take the borderless ones any day over the black square variety. I'll attempt to get a photo next week.