Here's the link to my post about August headlines about California highways (and a little other highway stuff). Also in the link are pointers to my observations from a recent roadtrip from LA to Madison WI to St Louis MO and back along US 66. For comments on those (and to keep this thread on topic), please respond to those on my blog directly (or, as you feel it, start a chain in the appropriate forum, but let me know about it on those posts so I can find it).
Here are the headlines about California Highways in August: http://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=13269
Ready. Set. Comment.
I was really hoping to see Caltrans get a lot more serious on fixing the Fergusson Slide on 140 in Mariposa County, 49 is pretty adequate or in the very least doesn't need a ton of improvements. I'm interested to see what Caltrans has in store for the Mud Creek Slide project (both links were down, some sort of site error) since it seems to bound to go right over it. There was definitely a ton of Caltrans traffic past Ragged Point before most of the Mud Creek plans got finalized, figured something was getting sorted out when I visited last month.
That horrible new CA 1 exit sign from southbound I-5 is shown here:
http://blog.octa.net/i-5-south-county-improvements-project-overhead-sign-work-is-completed
Caps in a much larger font than the lower case lettering. Did the same for the San Diego text, too.
Quote from: MarkF on September 03, 2017, 01:25:30 AM
That horrible new CA 1 exit sign from southbound I-5 is shown here:
http://blog.octa.net/i-5-south-county-improvements-project-overhead-sign-work-is-completed
Caps in a much larger font than the lower case lettering. Did the same for the San Diego text, too.
And throughout the project, they used Series D on other replaced signs. This project seems to show the full range of OCTA buffoonery. Replacement signage, temporary signage, construction lane markings . . . there seemed to be issues across the board. Even when it started, their online project docs referred to it as a Santa Ana Freeway project.
Seems the CA-1 segment between Rockport and US-101 is now open, albeit controlled single-lane. I'm heading up to the North Coast the end of the month and wanted to take this stretch (it was closed back in February), so at least some progress is being made.
Quote from: Occidental Tourist on September 03, 2017, 10:39:07 AM
Quote from: MarkF on September 03, 2017, 01:25:30 AM
That horrible new CA 1 exit sign from southbound I-5 is shown here:
http://blog.octa.net/i-5-south-county-improvements-project-overhead-sign-work-is-completed
Caps in a much larger font than the lower case lettering. Did the same for the San Diego text, too.
And throughout the project, they used Series D on other replaced signs. This project seems to show the full range of OCTA buffoonery. Replacement signage, temporary signage, construction lane markings . . . there seemed to be issues across the board. Even when it started, their online project docs referred to it as a Santa Ana Freeway project.
Hey the weird font choice makes the signage look positively 1955! 🤣
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Quote from: MarkF on September 03, 2017, 01:25:30 AM
That horrible new CA 1 exit sign from southbound I-5 is shown here:
http://blog.octa.net/i-5-south-county-improvements-project-overhead-sign-work-is-completed
Caps in a much larger font than the lower case lettering. Did the same for the San Diego text, too.
Aesthetically, I actually don't think the BGS looks that bad. Is that Series D? I can't tell from that distance.
Like TheStranger said, it actually looks like an old-style sign from California's early freeway days.