How does crossing the border into your home state/province/country look like? Please post pictures and/or Google street map view links of welcome / law signs, etc.
Entering New Jersey.... (Some old pictures - different governor now)
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(https://www.pokereagles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Welcome-to-New-Jersey.jpg)
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0663757,-74.0571225,3a,75y,224.13h,72.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssuBoxvy-_FMmD2tyQ1ubTA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1102086,-74.1644944,3a,75y,224.05h,96.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srJgNi0QIn12nl0jLMdS8iw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.005196,-73.9202381,3a,75y,171.94h,84.3t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suYwus6KchvCFURTMt4FCtA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0005191,-73.911675,3a,49.3y,203.45h,82.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHQI63IG5WEskswsNJ697nw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Quote from: NJ on December 03, 2015, 11:11:47 AM
Entering New Jersey....
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First pic: That entire assembly has been replaced with a NJ Turnpike-style VMS sign.
The second pic, obviously very old as Corzine hasn't been Governor for nearly 7 years. Also not really a border crossing since you're in the state for about 2 or 3 miles before seeing that sign.
Michigan via the Detroit/Windsor tunnel:
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Michigan via the Ambassador bridge:
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Not the best photo, but nostalgic nonetheless, on I-84 eastbound about 3/4 of a mile past the CT state line:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/774/23276183481_2a96c8bab0_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BsQwqi)GEDC0469 (https://flic.kr/p/BsQwqi) by Samuel Mount (https://www.flickr.com/photos/135847145@N08/), on Flickr
Quote from: tradephoric on December 03, 2015, 11:37:03 AM
Michigan via the Detroit/Windsor tunnel:
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Does this still bear the anachronistic name "Dominion of Canada"?
Got a few from NY:
Standard green sign (used until recently):
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Adirondack version:
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Standard Thruway sign (used until recently):
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New style for major crossings:
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And finally:
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Now... THAT is a border crossing!
Vermont:
Typical sign:
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Best I've seen (sadly gone):
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Massachusetts:
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Quote from: TravelingBethelite on December 03, 2015, 11:45:44 AM
Not the best photo, but nostalgic nonetheless, on I-84 eastbound about 3/4 of a mile past the CT state line:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/774/23276183481_2a96c8bab0_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BsQwqi)GEDC0469 (https://flic.kr/p/BsQwqi) by Samuel Mount (https://www.flickr.com/photos/135847145@N08/), on Flickr
Got a better one:
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Quote from: Pete from Boston on December 03, 2015, 12:01:27 PM
Does this still bear the anachronistic name "Dominion of Canada"?
It does not. Just the flag.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/DetroitWindsorTunnel.JPG)
Here are photos of all the state crossings into WA, WY, and AZ. Still working on finishing equivalent pages for ID, DE, and MT.
AZ-http://www.corcohighways.org/highways/az/azroutes/?page_id=9
WA- http://corcohighways.org/highways/blog/?page_id=12
WY- http://www.corcohighways.org/highways/wy/wyroutes/?page_id=18
Doesn't NY have those signs that list governor's names? I believe it ended until Cuomo ended his term, where they dropped his name off welcome signs for no reason.
Quote from: noelbotevera on December 03, 2015, 02:09:29 PM
Doesn't NY have those signs that list governor's names? I believe it ended until Cuomo ended his term, where they dropped his name off welcome signs for no reason.
Pataki made a gesture of cost-cutting by not having his name put on there, an excellent example that typical political ego ensures is rarely followed.
Quebec
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Ontario
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2503/3810642666_14fc8257e5.jpg)
Canada
(https://moviewriternyu.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/welcome-to-canada.jpg)
Quote from: jeffandnicole on December 03, 2015, 11:17:11 AM
Quote from: NJ on December 03, 2015, 11:11:47 AM
First pic: That entire assembly has been replaced with a NJ Turnpike-style VMS sign.
How does the new one look like?
Quote from: corco on December 03, 2015, 01:36:27 PM
Here are photos of all the state crossings into WA, WY, and AZ. Still working on finishing equivalent pages for ID, DE, and MT.
WA- http://corcohighways.org/highways/blog/?page_id=12
Very nice, but you need Point Roberts...
Not a state highway but yes, I do.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on December 03, 2015, 02:31:03 PM
Quote from: noelbotevera on December 03, 2015, 02:09:29 PM
Doesn't NY have those signs that list governor's names? I believe it ended until Cuomo ended his term, where they dropped his name off welcome signs for no reason.
Pataki made a gesture of cost-cutting by not having his name put on there, an excellent example that typical political ego ensures is rarely followed.
After Mitt Romney was elected in MA in 2002, he took them off after having 2 straight governors resign in office and need to have two name changes over two years. Deval Patrick nor Charlie Baker after have re-added them, thankfully.
Here are all forty of the states that I have driven in with my car:
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/23198528080/in/dateposted-public/ The entry point to Illinois on I-70 EB from Missouri. Though well inland as the State Line is midway across the Mississippi River, what I like is how Illinois does not use their governor, but the people of the state to sort of sign it.
Minnesota has tons of border crossings and I haven't photographed even 10% of them, but here are some examples of different things you will encounter as you enter.
Large stone monument (I-94) - seen on Interstates and other major crossings
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Small stone monument with a hanging wooden sign (US 14/61/MN 16 at La Crosse/La Crescent) - seen at semi-important crossings
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Small rectangular sign (MN 4) - seen on rural, lightly-travelled crossings
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The Virginia welcome sign "CtrlAltDel" posted is obsolete. The new style is this:
(https://localtvwtvr.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/welcome-to-va.jpg?w=770)
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 08, 2015, 07:41:19 AM
The Virginia welcome sign "CtrlAltDel" posted is obsolete. The new style is this:
(https://localtvwtvr.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/welcome-to-va.jpg?w=770)
There's one one the Dulles Access Road, as you may know. Presumably it's there to greet out-of-state and international visitors, but I always wondered what about people who fly from say Norfolk/Newport News to IAD, an intra-state flight (not that any necessarily exist).
Quote from: AlexandriaVA on December 08, 2015, 08:50:07 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 08, 2015, 07:41:19 AM
The Virginia welcome sign "CtrlAltDel" posted is obsolete. The new style is this:
(https://localtvwtvr.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/welcome-to-va.jpg?w=770)
There's one one the Dulles Access Road, as you may know. Presumably it's there to greet out-of-state and international visitors, but I always wondered what about people who fly from say Norfolk/Newport News to IAD, an intra-state flight (not that any necessarily exist).
Is that really something to worry about...upsetting people that flew within the state?
Quote from: Pete from Boston on December 03, 2015, 02:31:03 PM
Quote from: noelbotevera on December 03, 2015, 02:09:29 PM
Doesn't NY have those signs that list governor's names? I believe it ended until Cuomo ended his term, where they dropped his name off welcome signs for no reason.
Pataki made a gesture of cost-cutting by not having his name put on there, an excellent example that typical political ego ensures is rarely followed.
When he was Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney ordered the governor and lieutenant governor's names to be removed from welcome signs. The signs remain nameless to this day.
Quote from: roadman65 on December 08, 2015, 05:59:44 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/23198528080/in/dateposted-public/ The entry point to Illinois on I-70 EB from Missouri. Though well inland as the State Line is midway across the Mississippi River, what I like is how Illinois does not use their governor, but the people of the state to sort of sign it.
That's actually state law now, after Rod Blagojevich got bounced out of the governor's mansion (which he never occupied).
I wish we could get a state law passed in Florida that allows our signs to be governor free.
In fact it was until recently when that bald headed idiot, who is lucky to get into our State House, as he had no political experience before ever! He is even not a true Republican which he bears their party name for himself even though Sean Hannity wipes this guy's ass in his radio and TV shows despite he hates John McCain for also being a name only Republican due to his true conservative values.
Anyway, bad man or woman or not, Governor's names should not be on the signs period.
TN, as I understand it:
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I'm glad Minnesota never wasted their time and money with that sort of shit putting the governors' names on state line markers. Our state line markers aren't really conducive to it anyway.
On I-70 at the Indiana/Ohio line:
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5784/22952209222_357fa0fe26_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/AYd5ad)I-70 WB Ohio/Indiana line (https://flic.kr/p/AYd5ad) by Ryan busman_49 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/busman_49/), on Flickr
Quote from: AlexandriaVA on December 08, 2015, 08:50:07 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 08, 2015, 07:41:19 AM
The Virginia welcome sign "CtrlAltDel" posted is obsolete. The new style is this:
(https://localtvwtvr.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/welcome-to-va.jpg?w=770)
There's one one the Dulles Access Road, as you may know. Presumably it's there to greet out-of-state and international visitors, but I always wondered what about people who fly from say Norfolk/Newport News to IAD, an intra-state flight (not that any necessarily exist).
It's for marketing reasons due to the airport being named "Washington Dulles International Airport." The Commonwealth thought people might not know the airport is in Virginia. Of course, under that logic they should post those same signs at the exits from Reagan too.
The sign in the Rosslyn Metro station was replaced with the new type, BTW.
Quote from: 1995hoo on December 08, 2015, 07:41:19 AM
The Virginia welcome sign "CtrlAltDel" posted is obsolete. The new style is this:
I honestly thought that said "Virginia is For Losers" at first. :-D
Some more Ohio ones...
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(https://ionenewpittsburghcourier.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/a8ohio.jpg)
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(https://elatlboy.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/michiganohio012.jpg?w=500)
New Brunswick's is pretty neat...
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8808/17134820245_f32bea3eb8_z.jpg)
This is in Saint Stephen, in the middle of the NB 3/NB 170 rotary.
Maine on I-95:
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Quote from: AlexandriaVAhere's one one the Dulles Access Road, as you may know. Presumably it's there to greet out-of-state and international visitors, but I always wondered what about people who fly from say Norfolk/Newport News to IAD, an intra-state flight (not that any necessarily exist).
BTW, yes there are ORF (Norfolk)-IAD flights. Navy put me on a few over the years, enroute to other destinations.
Quote from: froggie on December 08, 2015, 09:20:36 PM
Quote from: AlexandriaVAhere's one one the Dulles Access Road, as you may know. Presumably it's there to greet out-of-state and international visitors, but I always wondered what about people who fly from say Norfolk/Newport News to IAD, an intra-state flight (not that any necessarily exist).
BTW, yes there are ORF (Norfolk)-IAD flights. Navy put me on a few over the years, enroute to other destinations.
Every TDY I've taken I just chose to take the mileage rate (although if you're connecting to Dulles from, say, San Diego or Seattle, then it's a different story).
I've always wanted to be able to bill for train tickets but then I saw how infrequently DC/ALX to Norfolk/NPN, and how those stations are in the middle of nowhere down there.
You like welcome signs? I have welcome signs.
The full collection: http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/welcome-to.html (http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/welcome-to.html)
One per state as inline graphics: http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/states/ (http://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/states/)
Quote from: cbeach40 on December 08, 2015, 01:45:42 PM
TN, as I understand it:
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Usually it looks more like this.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7185/6796494772_3c199efa5c_b.jpg)
I got some:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/691/20116575473_b1eab59b56.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wDCH3a)
Entering British Columbia (Original) (https://flic.kr/p/wDCH3a) by Sign Geek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/135438121@N07/), on Flickr
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5833/20549545658_1be2d47bf3.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xiTMZm)
Entering Alberta (https://flic.kr/p/xiTMZm) by Sign Geek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/135438121@N07/), on Flickr
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5818/20550793959_b1fd78b801.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xj1c4M)
Entering Saskatchewan (https://flic.kr/p/xj1c4M) by Sign Geek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/135438121@N07/), on Flickr
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/669/20728200402_08c4a3a29f.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xzFrPy)
Entering Manitoba (https://flic.kr/p/xzFrPy) by Sign Geek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/135438121@N07/), on Flickr
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/690/20549533668_60ff7916ce.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xiTJqC)
Entering Ontario (https://flic.kr/p/xiTJqC) by Sign Geek (https://www.flickr.com/photos/135438121@N07/), on Flickr
Out of these, the BC looks the best to me. All were taken on the Trans Canada. Best one in Canada is Nova Scotia though I think:
https://goo.gl/maps/GvzeXWDFzJ72
Quote from: AlexandriaVAEvery TDY I've taken I just chose to take the mileage rate (although if you're connecting to Dulles from, say, San Diego or Seattle, then it's a different story).
I was traveling overseas, so I didn't get the opportunity to take the mileage rate.
Are/were you active duty?
QuoteI've always wanted to be able to bill for train tickets but then I saw how infrequently DC/ALX to Norfolk/NPN, and how those stations are in the middle of nowhere down there.
NPN = Newport News isn't close to much, but the newer (opened December 2012) Norfolk (NFK) station is right on the edge of downtown.
Quote from: froggie on December 09, 2015, 06:22:44 AM
Quote from: AlexandriaVAEvery TDY I've taken I just chose to take the mileage rate (although if you're connecting to Dulles from, say, San Diego or Seattle, then it's a different story).
I was traveling overseas, so I didn't get the opportunity to take the mileage rate.
Are/were you active duty?
QuoteI've always wanted to be able to bill for train tickets but then I saw how infrequently DC/ALX to Norfolk/NPN, and how those stations are in the middle of nowhere down there.
NPN = Newport News isn't close to much, but the newer (opened December 2012) Norfolk (NFK) station is right on the edge of downtown.
And they had the "wisdom" to run right the light rail up to the naval station...
Not only is NPN not close to much, it's just a really bad location. It's typical of the "find a classification yard on the edge of town" approach that many southern Amtrak stations suffers from. Great if you have a car waiting for you, but not much else.
US 301 from NC in 1955:
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Mike
Quote from: roadman65 on December 08, 2015, 05:59:44 AMwhat I like is how Illinois does not use their governor, but the people of the state to sort of sign it.
That's what happens when your governor (Blagojevich) gets removed from office and the likelihood is high that successors will also. I remember seeing photos of signs at the toll plazas bearing his name were removed.
Buck87 -- where is that second overhead sign you posted located? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that's the Harsha Bridge (US 68) between Mason County, Ky. and Aberdeen, Ohio. Am I right?
Quote from: hbelkins on December 09, 2015, 07:50:23 PM
Buck87 -- where is that second overhead sign you posted located? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that's the Harsha Bridge (US 68) between Mason County, Ky. and Aberdeen, Ohio. Am I right?
That is correct
(I pulled those pics off google image search, and went back and looked at the page that one came from to confirm your hunch)
Quote from: US 41 on December 08, 2015, 10:49:30 PM
Quote from: cbeach40 on December 08, 2015, 01:45:42 PM
TN, as I understand it:
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Usually it looks more like this.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7185/6796494772_3c199efa5c_b.jpg)
The official version is this:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/722/21668498973_41970bbb64_h.jpg)
Washington, D.C.'s welcome sign as seen on Rhode Island Avenue (US 1) in Mount Rainier, MD:
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