You Know You're A Roadgeek If...

[Scott5114]

When I was pretty fresh out of school I spent a summer inspecting a roads crew resurface roads in Waterloo Region.  I have always, and still do, really like the smell of freshly laid asphalt.

This, and gasoline. Road projects in general, that earthy or rocky smell like something big is getting done.

I'm the exact opposite.  whenever I see road construction I think "gratuitous speed traps" and "there goes the neat old infrastructure".

this probably has to do with where you spent your formative years. Boston has "neat old infrastructure", Oklahoma has infrastructure where it's obvious nobody really knew how this freeway thing was supposed to work yet.

[agentsteel53]

this probably has to do with where you spent your formative years. Boston has "neat old infrastructure", Oklahoma has infrastructure where it's obvious nobody really knew how this freeway thing was supposed to work yet.

Boston has that too, just 20-30 years older.

[cjk374]

If you noticed the mistake right away https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.04175,-88.241501&spn=0.160587,0.225563&t=h&z=12

Either 1 of 2 things I may have found:

1)  They spelled out "State Hwy 282" instead of using a state route symbol.

2)  They marked I-69 on the map when it hasn't officially made it through there yet?

[vtk]

Asphalt, gasoline, and rubber cement: I find all of these smells nice, in moderation.  Too strong or too prolonged, and I'll seek fresh air.

[Molandfreak]

If you noticed the mistake right away https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.04175,-88.241501&spn=0.160587,0.225563&t=h&z=12

Either 1 of 2 things I may have found:

1)  They spelled out "State Hwy 282" instead of using a state route symbol.

2)  They marked I-69 on the map when it hasn't officially made it through there yet?

I was actually referring to I-66 on that map. I wasn't sure if that was a part of I-69 officially or not!

[Alps]

If you noticed the mistake right away https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.04175,-88.241501&spn=0.160587,0.225563&t=h&z=12

The mistake is Kentucky not getting I-66 completed across the state country.

[Molandfreak]

If you noticed the mistake right away https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.04175,-88.241501&spn=0.160587,0.225563&t=h&z=12

The mistake is Kentucky not getting I-66 completed across the state country.

Wait, so 66 is official, but incomplete like 73?

[Alps]

If you noticed the mistake right away https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.04175,-88.241501&spn=0.160587,0.225563&t=h&z=12

The mistake is Kentucky not getting I-66 completed across the state country.

Wait, so 66 is official, but incomplete like 73?

In the sense that it exists in Virginia and was proposed elsewhere.

[Molandfreak]

If you noticed the mistake right away https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=37.04175,-88.241501&spn=0.160587,0.225563&t=h&z=12

The mistake is Kentucky not getting I-66 completed across the state country.

Wait, so 66 is official, but incomplete like 73?

In the sense that it exists in Virginia and was proposed elsewhere.

Well, yeah, but why would google use it in a place where it's not official?

[vtk]

Someone at Google probably saw an official Kentucky map which labels the corridor as "Future I-66" and entered that information accordingly.  Then it got rendered on the map as plain I-66, without the "future" part because Google's map renderer drops such modifiers as Future and Business.

The same goes for I-69 and I-369, although at least part of I-69 actually is signed now.

[kurumi]

... frozen lake + several inches of new snow + snow shovel = skater highways.

[hm insulators]

I used to pretend everything was a road, from paths in a zoo to supermarket aisles.

I used to do that also. When I was in school, I used to give the hallways and corridors street names, too.

[Brandon]

I used to pretend everything was a road, from paths in a zoo to supermarket aisles.

I used to do that also. When I was in school, I used to give the hallways and corridors street names, too.

I wanted to see the hallways striped in junior high and high school.  I thought it might bring some order to the crowds of people in the halls between classes.  A few "Keep Right" signs might've helped as well.

[formulanone]

I used to do that also. When I was in school, I used to give the hallways and corridors street names, too.

One of the elementary schools in my town actually does this; the paths are named after cartoon/comic characters (Snoopy Way, Snow White Blvd, etc.)

[vtk]

The central ring of hallways in my sixth-grade school was one-way.  Counter-clockwise, like a roundabout.  And it wasn't my idea.

(There's now a vehicular roundabout directly in front of the school, too.)

[CentralCAroadgeek]

You know you are a roadgeek if you sometimes dream about roads.

(My dream last night involved making a left turn going up a steep hill on a four-lane undivided road that had I-25 shields. It was weird.)

[Big John]

I thought of putting traffic lights at crossing hallways at my high school.

[Sanctimoniously]

(My dream last night involved making a left turn going up a steep hill on a four-lane undivided road that had I-25 shields. It was weird.)

I've had dreams about my hometown before, like a random side street suddenly having a bevy of old button-copy signs and billboards.

[kphoger]

The central ring of hallways in my sixth-grade school was one-way.  Counter-clockwise, like a roundabout.  And it wasn't my idea.

(There's now a vehicular roundabout directly in front of the school, too.)

I was once in charge of striping an area of a warehouse at work.  I came really close to painting mini-roundabouts at some "intersections".

[elsmere241]

You liken the numbers on shields (by size, typeface, etc.) to facial expressions.

[akotchi]

Or, better yet, you liken traffic signal indications to different facial expressions, depending on which face is illuminated . . .   

[hbelkins]

You know you're a roadgeek if you go past your turn in order to U-turn and check out the signs in the opposite direction.

Guilty. And of turning down a road just to check out the signs as well.

[formulanone]

You liken the numbers on shields (by size, typeface, etc.) to facial expressions.

Cartoon/Story characters, in fact...er, imaginary fact.

[Takumi]

Or, better yet, you liken traffic signal indications to different facial expressions, depending on which face is illuminated . . .   

I still see green lights as , yellow lights as , and red lights as .

[CrossCountryRoads]

...you are intrigued by the town/city names that make it onto Interstate exit signs.