aaroads.com topics in 2064

[Alps]

"California adopts 2009 MUTCD"

Sorry but I don't follow on this one.  Califronia adopted the 2009 MUTCD in 2012.

No, they adopted the California MUTCD, which has a bunch of differences that say "I dare you to come after me because I'm big and important."

[cl94]

California adopts MUTCD-standard arrow pavement markings

This is another one I don't follow.  What's wrong with California's arrow pavement markings?

Most of the country, including New York, follows the MUTCD standard of 9.5' arrows, whether they be normal width (shown) or thin (Pennsylvania). California specifies up to 24' arrows, as shown here in Pasadena. I've seen them in plenty of other places.

[myosh_tino]

California adopts MUTCD-standard arrow pavement markings

This is another one I don't follow.  What's wrong with California's arrow pavement markings?

Most of the country, including New York, follows the MUTCD standard of 9.5' arrows, whether they be normal width (shown) or thin (Pennsylvania). California specifies up to 24' arrows, as shown here in Pasadena. I've seen them in plenty of other places.

Hmmm... isn't bigger always better? 

Seriously though, I don't see what the problem is with the larger arrows.

[NE2]

Bucking the trend, RIDOT switches back to cutout Interstate shields

[Big John]

Last state to finally use the mandated Comic Sans font on all signs.

[DeaconG]

Pennsylvania finally starts on the PA 51 to I-376 portion of the MonFayette Expressway.

[robbones]

"Arkansas decommissions 75% of state highways and save millions."

[codyg1985]

"Arkansas decommissions 75% of state highways and save millions."

Kentucky would do well to follow suit.

[billtm]

"Arkansas decommissions 75% of state highways and save millions."

Kentucky would do well to follow suit.

So would Pennsylvania.

[Laura]

Along with WW2 and the whole Middle East for 95 years, the Balkans show that the Brits and French were awful at drawing lines on maps in 1919 as they didn't care about who lived there and their allegences. Ireland's partition was perhaps the best line drawn, as they made some effort, but as we know that was hardly a roaring success.

This is why wars and conflicts keep happening. If the lines were drawn to give each tribe and/or ethnic group its own country, we wouldn't have this problem.

Fictional Highways: How would you have numbered the post-unification North Korean highways?

[Pete from Boston]

Along with WW2 and the whole Middle East for 95 years, the Balkans show that the Brits and French were awful at drawing lines on maps in 1919 as they didn't care about who lived there and their allegences. Ireland's partition was perhaps the best line drawn, as they made some effort, but as we know that was hardly a roaring success.

This is why wars and conflicts keep happening. If the lines were drawn to give each tribe and/or ethnic group its own country, we wouldn't have this problem.

Worked in Israel, right?

[jakeroot]

Along with WW2 and the whole Middle East for 95 years, the Balkans show that the Brits and French were awful at drawing lines on maps in 1919 as they didn't care about who lived there and their allegences. Ireland's partition was perhaps the best line drawn, as they made some effort, but as we know that was hardly a roaring success.

This is why wars and conflicts keep happening. If the lines were drawn to give each tribe and/or ethnic group its own country, we wouldn't have this problem.

Worked in Israel, right?

Borders exist only because you have to draw a dividing line somewhere, but in the modern context, they mean very little.

[Pete from Boston]

Along with WW2 and the whole Middle East for 95 years, the Balkans show that the Brits and French were awful at drawing lines on maps in 1919 as they didn't care about who lived there and their allegences. Ireland's partition was perhaps the best line drawn, as they made some effort, but as we know that was hardly a roaring success.

This is why wars and conflicts keep happening. If the lines were drawn to give each tribe and/or ethnic group its own country, we wouldn't have this problem.

Worked in Israel, right?

Borders exist only because you have to draw a dividing line somewhere, but in the modern context, they mean very little.

Their perpetual sanctity, however, has become sort of a cornerstone of international law, even when they are at the heart of conflict.*



(* Except when a boundary change pleases the powerful guarantors of said law.)

[CNGL-Leudimin]

'Last piece of trans-global freeway finally opened'.

Fictional Highways: How would you have numbered the post-unification North Korean highways?

I believe by then the Democratic People's ( ) Republic of (North) Korea and the Republic of (South) Korea will have unified.

[Henry]

Last state to finally use the mandated Comic Sans font on all signs.

WTF??? That's even worse than that crappy Clearview! But anyway...

"Chicago finally completes I-494 Crosstown Expressway, then renames it Century Expressway for the amount of time it took to plan and build it!"

[vdeane]

"NY to begin another study concerning the proposed Rooftop Highway"

[NE2]

"Appalachian counties with more ceremonial bridge names than people"

[JoePCool14]

Off Topic > Will Chicago ever climb out of bankruptcy?

[dfwmapper]

AARoads forum contributor found guilty of murdering California assemblyman who proposed change in US shield design
_{'Fuck Clearview' found written in perfect Series E(M) with button copy on deceased body}

[adventurernumber1]

"AARoads Calendar still missing after 50 years"

(It's actually been missing the past week or so, but I didn't think this was important enough to nitpick about in an entire thread in the Suggestions/Questions subforum)

[Zmapper]

"Counties without roads named after Bush/Obama/The-2016-Elect"

[Laura]

'Last piece of trans-global freeway finally opened'.

Fictional Highways: How would you have numbered the post-unification North Korean highways?

I believe by then the Democratic People's ( ) Republic of (North) Korea and the Republic of (South) Korea will have unified.

Yep, hence the past tense. I'm basically asking where Korea messed up in its renumbering scheme.


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[hm insulators]

Caltrans reconnects California 39 to California 2, then extends 39 to tie into 138.

Freeway connecting Palmdale/Lancaster area to La Canada Flintridge via tunnel under San Gabriel Mountains.

[cl94]

Everyone's nightmare come true: New York begins construction a bypass route linking I-390 with NY 400 near Buffalo. I-99 extended to this routing and along I-190 to Canada. Ontario approves redsignating 405 and 400 as I-99 with concurrencies along the QEW and 407 to link both sections, creating first international Interstate

[vdeane]

You forgot the extension via ON 17 to the road to Rankin Inlet.  I-999 would then be created as a spur along the Trans Canada, Alaska Highway, and the Dalton Highway to Deadhorse.  Of course, the I-87 extension to Iqaluit would be built as well.