Traffic lights on an interstate

[OCGuy81]

While the feds wave white people through you mean. One of my friends out there is married to a hispanic woman and they always get stopped if she's in the car.

That's messed up, man.  Yet there is always the claim that there is no racial profiling going on.  Kind of like airports.  If you're of middle eastern descent, you're in for a rough time. Sad, but true.

[msubulldog]

Continuing said topic.....until 1968, old I-95 (now I-395) in Northern Virginia had an active at-grade rail crossing at the Washington & Old Dominion rail tracks just north of Four Mile Run, between the Shirlington and Glebe Rd exits.  This crossing dates back to the roads origin as the Shirley Highway (old VA 350) in 1950.  As with the TxDOT example, VDOT did not want to build a grade separation across a line that was in and out of proposals for abandonment as it was.

Here you go. The buildings seen on the left are still there.

Was there any backlog at this railroad crossing during either AM or PM drive times?

Fixed quote. - rmf67

[froggie]

Often.

[1995hoo]

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Was there any backlog at this railroad crossing during either AM or PM drive times?

Fixed quote. - rmf67

It was gone before I moved to the DC area, but I'm 100% sure froggie's assessment is accurate. That road suffered frequent backups and was rebuilt by the mid-1970s. The Street View image linked below has the camera at about as close a spot as I could get to where the picture above would have been taken. The apartment/condo building in the distance on the left is visible in both images.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=38.84173,-77.083726&spn=0.006393,0.016512&t=m&z=17&vpsrc=0&layer=c&cbll=38.841646,-77.083787&panoid=WTZA-D5oSlsZSpNYv1jqNQ&cbp=12,55.08,,0,9.59

[ethanman62187]

I don't know if a few number of interstates have these traffic signals removed or not.

[Kacie Jane]

I don't know if a few number of interstates have these traffic signals removed or not.

English, please?

The only traffic signals left on an interstate mainline (in other words,excluding bridges, tunnels, termini, etc.) are I-78 near the Holland Tunnel, I-70 in Breezewood, I-180 in Wyoming, and I-690 in New York (but only during the fair).

[bigboi00069]

I know that in jacksonville, on I-95, the Fuller Warren Bridge was a draw bridge until 2002

[ethanman62187]

I know that in jacksonville, on I-95, the Fuller Warren Bridge was a draw bridge until 2002

I don't know about that, but ok.

[bigboi00069]

I know that in jacksonville, on I-95, the Fuller Warren Bridge was a draw bridge until 2002

I don't know about that, but ok.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_Warren_Bridge

There is some information about the bridge

[roadman65]

Can signals at the end of interstates count?  It really is not on there, just as I-78 in Jersey City, NJ.  Even though technically I-78 is aligned into New York via 12th Street (EB) and Boyle Plaza (WB) and no freeway on the NY side of the Holland Tunnel.  If the NJTA installed a "END I-78" assembly at the end of the NJ Turnpike it would simplify things even though legally and officially it still does  not.  As far as I am concerned, I-78 does end with the Turnpike.

Other interstates with signal ends anyway, should not count being it is terminus.

I-78 should be bannered as I-78 Business Spur into NYC from the NJ Turnpike to answer that question about I-78 being signalized.

[bulkyorled]

If the CA71 Expwy counts then just that

[NE2]

If the CA71 Expwy counts then just that

what

[bulkyorled]

On the 71 in California, the part thats signed as an Expressway in Pomona has traffic lights on it

[NE2]

So? It's an expressway, not a freeway, and certainly not an Interstate.

[bulkyorled]

No need to get snippy about it. And it technically is a freeway but its signed wrong.

[NE2]

No need to bump a thread with an off-topic post.

[bulkyorled]

Again, no need to get snippy about it.

[rickmastfan67]

Enough you two.

[agentsteel53]

it's a thread started by ethanman; the IQ of all readers drops by 40 points upon clicking to open it.

[NE2]

I-366 currently has a traffic light north of I-66.

[agentsteel53]

I-366 currently has a traffic light north of I-66.

that's okay - when the light is red, the speed limit is 85.

[mightyace]

Prior to the Mid-80's, when I-280 in Toledo was finally upgraded to Interstate standards north of the Ohio Turnpike, there was a traffic light at what is now the Walbridge (Walbridge Road) Exit.

BTW, that was the first place I ever saw a "Prepare To Stop When Flashing" assembly.

Also, there used to be a drawbridge there, too over the Maumee River.  Per Google, the old bridge is still there, only not part of I-280.  I remeber on one trip as a kid getting stopped in traffic when the bridge was open.

http://maps.google.com/?ll=41.660569,-83.512402&spn=0.007711,0.015965&t=h&z=16

[drrosenrosen]

Also, there used to be a drawbridge there, too over the Maumee River.  Per Google, the old bridge is still there, only not part of I-280.  I remeber on one trip as a kid getting stopped in traffic when the bridge was open.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=41.660569,-83.512402&spn=0.007711,0.015965&t=h&z=16

That was the Craig Memorial Bridge, which was a drawbridge.  It has since been bypassed with the Veteran's Glass City Skyway, which is a cable-stayed bridge with much higher clearance for river traffic.  The Craig Bridge was notorious for getting stuck in the open position for hours, snarling I-280 traffic.

pic:
https://www.aaroads.com/midwest/ohio200/i-280_nb_exit_010a_02.jpg

There used to be primitive analog VMS built into about 3 or 4 advanced BGS along I-280 approaching the bridge in both directions, to alert traffic of the state of the bridge.

See:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19770803&id=U_ROAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZwIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3792,671200

The BGS had a small rotating section built into the sign, and there were four sides that could rotate and be visible to motorists.  The four sides read: "Drawbridge Ahead", "Drawbridge Raised Ahead", "Congestion Ahead", and "Drawbridge Slippery Ahead".  Per the Blade article, these signs were installed in 1978.

[Henry]

Going back to the I-395/old I-95 example: Was that the only instance of a limited-access highway with an at-grade railroad crossing? I find this very odd.

[blawp]

Interstate 8 and Interstate 10 have stop signs at the California border.