Two images of Md. 200 (with 60 MPH limit)

[cpzilliacus]

Entrance from Md. 182 (Layhill Road) to eastbound Md. 200 (ICC).  Note the DelDOT-style light poles, the "phony tree" cell phone tower and the brick National Capital Trolley Museum building adjacent:



60 MPH is better than 55 MPH:

[roadman65]

I was noticing that MD 200 is ALL open road tolling! It will be interesting to see what existing toll facility will go that way exclusively as we all know this is the current wave for all new toll roads.

[cpzilliacus]

I was noticing that MD 200 is ALL open road tolling! It will be interesting to see what existing toll facility will go that way exclusively as we all know this is the current wave for all new toll roads.

Yes, it's all cashless open-road tolling. The first one of its kind in Maryland.  Virginia's I-495 HOV/toll lanes, which opened late last year, operate the same way, as does North Carolina's Triangle Expressway.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is on-record saying that that's where they are going in the not-so-distant future.

[roadman65]

I was noticing that MD 200 is ALL open road tolling! It will be interesting to see what existing toll facility will go that way exclusively as we all know this is the current wave for all new toll roads.

Yes, it's all cashless open-road tolling. The first one of its kind in Maryland.  Virginia's I-495 HOV/toll lanes, which opened late last year, operate the same way, as does North Carolina's Triangle Expressway.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is on-record saying that that's where they are going in the not-so-distant future.

Here in Florida we have the Lee Roy Salmon Expressway that was regular tolling to open road exclusively in the past few years. 

I do remember the Port Authority of NY & NJ saying they wanted to especially for the GWB.

[NE2]

Lee Roy Salmon Expressway

[roadman65]

Lee Roy Salmon Expressway

This expressway should be in the Guiness Book as it has had so many names, so many shields, and sometimes it goes by it designated FDOT route number FL 618.

I believe it had three known shields.  It started out as the South Tampa Crosstown, then it was the Tampa Crosstown, and then alternatively it was called back and forth as either FL 618 or the Lee Roy Salmon and now the Lee Roy dropped. 

Some of it maybe not official in legislation, but by locals it seemed to have many changes in names.  Maybe we should just call it the undershort freeway, cause something about it changes every so often just as the average Joe changing his shorts.

[NE2]

Whoosh. His name is fucking Selmon. With an E. Nothing fishy here.

[seicer]

What's with all the wood posts? I wondered about that on my trip to NYC this past week - are they as crash worthy as standard steel supports?

[cpzilliacus]

What's with all the wood posts? I wondered about that on my trip to NYC this past week - are they as crash worthy as standard steel supports?

Maryland SHA standard is wood posts for reassurance markers and speed limit signs and most other smallish signs.   

Not sure if they are MdTA standard or not (since SHA managed the construction of the highway, not MdTA).

[hbelkins]

Michigan and Ohio use a lot of wood posts. In most cases, if you look closely at the bottom of the post, on the side parallel to the roadway, you'll see a circular hole bored all the way through (I don't have any photos). This, to my non-engineer eyes, provides a breakaway characteristic similar to what's found on steel support posts.