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Title: A few Maryland Routes you're probably never going to clinch
Post by: talllguy on June 17, 2015, 11:50:27 PM

Maryland's SHA uses some pretty cool shields (https://goo.gl/photos/dhBmSmKc5jsqHQDq5) to indicate the floor you're on within the headquarters' stairwells.

Pictures (https://goo.gl/photos/dhBmSmKc5jsqHQDq5)

Title: Re: A few Maryland Routes you're probably never going to clinch
Post by: Zeffy on June 17, 2015, 11:58:14 PM

Damn, MDSHA is sweet for decorating their building like that. :) Thanks for the photos!

Title: Re: A few Maryland Routes you're probably never going to clinch
Post by: Duke87 on June 18, 2015, 01:02:35 AM

I mean hey, if you've got your own sign shop, why buy building signage from someone else?

My first thought was to wonder whether these signs are code compliant. Every stairwell I can ever recall being in has called out floor numbers in red text, not black. But I looked it up and the building code in Maryland (https://archive.org/stream/gov.md.building/md_building_djvu.txt) says nothing on the matter of floor signage within stairwells. Even in NYC, the code says the numerals and the background must be "contrasting colors" (http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/downloads/bldgs_code/bc27s6.pdf) (§[C26-608.3] 27-392) but not specifically red on white.

Title: Re: A few Maryland Routes you're probably never going to clinch
Post by: Mapmikey on June 18, 2015, 06:29:26 AM

Does that building have a 9th floor?

World's only MD 9 shield (aside from the MD 43 shield photo showing a recycling of a MD 9)...

Mike

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