Daily Picture Challenge!

[dgolub]

The blank space above Astoria Boulevard would have taken an I-678 shield if the Astoria Expressway had been built.


These signs have been replaced, so don't go looking for them.

[jbnv]

What, you don't think anyone has pictures of snow in Florida?

Well, if they do, they didn't post it during the challenge time period.

[hbelkins]

January 28 Challenge: BGSes that have blank spots where route shields used to be

This sign, and the ones preceding it on I-275, used to have a KY 8 shield. This exit leads to what was at one time a third separate segment of KY 8, but the route number was later changed to a four-digit route -- the road serves only as a connector to KY 20 -- and no marker replaced it.

2016 Bloomington Trip Day 3 - 23 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

2016 Bloomington Trip Day 3 - 25 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

On the two above, you can see shadows on these old signs where markers were moved. These originally said KY 151, TO US 127 SOUTH but the US 127 designation was removed when trucks were banned from the segment of KY 151 between I-64 and Lawrenceburg.

I have a few more but probably won't dig through my photos to find them, in case someone else wants to try to find and use them.

[wanderer2575]

January 29th challenge:  Post photos of conflicting signage.

Northbound M-10 (Lodge Freeway) in Detroit/Highland Park, April 2015.  This is what happens when there are multiple projects along a route and each has its own signage with no coordination among them.

[empirestate]

  OK Challengers, here it is: the first monthly catch-up free-for-all! For the rest of the month, post any photos you may have missed for any January Challenge™. (Please continue to observe posting limits: one picture per answer, three answers per post.)

This catch-up blitz serves as the Challenge for January 29, 2017. It will remain open throughout January 30 and 31, and new Challenges will also be posted on those days (which will also remain open through the 31st). [EDIT: I see somebody just snuck in his own Challenge for the 29th, so we'll keep that one open as well.]

Here again is the list of January Challenges (thanks to our bassoon friend):

Here's the full list so you don't have to search through 11 pages worth of challenges:

January 2, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of wrong-way concurrencies between an Interstate and its parallel US route companion, or any pair of routes that are generally parallel along the same corridor for a substantial distance (not just routes that happen to have the same cardinal directions posted.)

January 3, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of county route shields that are not the standard pentagon (or even an attempt at one). Squares, circles, diamonds, county outline cut-outs–let's see 'em!

January 4, 2017
Post photos of one or more BGSs together that show at least one interstate, one US, and one state route shield.

January 5 challenge:
Post a picture where a route number in the picture and the speed limit are identical, and both are shown in the picture. The route number shown does not have to be the road the picture is on.

January 6th challenge: 
Post photos showing two consecutive route numbers (need not be the same route type).

January 7:
Post a picture of two or more BGSs mounted to something other than a gantry.

January 8 challenge:
'BEGIN' route markers

January 9, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of error shields (wrong shield shape/route type) other than US for state or state for US.

January 10, 2017
Challenge: Post signs featuring the names of famous people on them.
Rules:
—Official road/highway signs only.
—Must include at least first and last name.
—Exclude signs giving only commemorative or ceremonial highway names.
—Exclude persons already honored on official currency or with a national holiday.

January 11 challenge:
Post a picture that shows sub-$2 gasoline, while the focus of the image is road-related.

January 12 challenge:
A highway sign acknowledging where a major politician, entertainer or historical figure has lived or was born.

January 13 challenge:
Inappropriate use of wide shields.

Jan 14 Challenge:
Post pics of signage that is a little too on the nose, makes you go "duh", or unintentionally reveals a larger truth.  Here's your chance to be creative...

January 15th challenge: 
Official highway signs that are nowhere near anything specified in the MUTCD.

January 16, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of hilariously complicated arrow signs (diagrammatic freeway signs, overhead intersection lane assignments, curve/intersection warning signs, etc.).

January 17, 2017, challenge:
A BGS with five or more shields on it.

January 18, 2017
Challenge: Post any sign containing a 1, 18, or 2017.

January 19, 2017
Challenge: Post guide signs on which a route number is given in text rather than on a shield.

January 20, 2017
Challenge: Post signs including at least the first and last name of a U.S. President (sitting, past or future at the time of the photo).

January 21, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of bannered route shield assemblies containing at least one banner other than Business (or BUS), Alternate (or ALT) or Truck.

(So, it can include any of the above types, as long as it also contains a banner other than those three. Thus, "TEMP BUSINESS" would be permitted, but "ALT TRUCK" would not.)

January 22, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of any array of BGSes that show shields of three or more different interstates.

January 23, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of unpaved state-level (or international equivalent) highways.

January 24 Challenge:
Pictures of routes that have been eliminated/turned back

January 25 Challenge:
Commercial logos on BGS (green directional signs)

January 26 Challenge:
Photos that are valid for two or more previous challenges. In your post, mention which previous challenges they are (you only need descriptions of the challenges, you don't need to search to see which days they were). If a photo has already been posted to this thread, it can't be posted here again for this challenge.

January 27, 2017
Challenge: Post any road or sign photo that also shows beautiful winter scenery.

January 28 Challenge:
BGSes that have blank spots where route shields used to be

January 29th challenge:
Post photos of conflicting signage.

[jbnv]

January 4, 2017: Post photos of one or more BGSs together that show at least one interstate, one US, and one state route shield.

I-12 Essen Ln. Exit / Airline Highway Advance Sign by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

January 20, 2017: Post signs including at least the first and last name of a U.S. President (sitting, past or future at the time of the photo).

Hot Springs Bill Clinton Sign by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[empirestate]

January 30, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that suggest an unintentionally funny phrase or combination of words.

By Robert Lee, from our own AA Roads Interstate Guide:

http://www.interstate-guide.com/images027/i-027_nt_04.jpg

A friend of mine, seeing this sign, once quipped, "What exactly is a dumb-ass pampa?"



And don't forget, all January Challenges (including this one) are open through tomorrow!

[hotdogPi]

Most of you are probably familiar with this sign.

[formulanone]

January 30, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that suggest an unintentionally funny phrase or combination of words.

Tough choices just outside Pittsburgh International Airport: Airport Beaver or Moon Cargo?

[hbelkins]

January 30, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that suggest an unintentionally funny phrase or combination of words.

There are two communities in Wolfe County, Ky., called Flat and Mary, accessible by a dead-end road off KY 15. The road is called Flat-Mary Road.

OK, we know where Flat Mary is. How about Busty Mary?




Then there's this from New Albany, Ind.

Obama left, security right.

[formulanone]

January 21, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of bannered route shield assemblies containing at least one banner other than Business (or BUS), Alternate (or ALT) or Truck.

Old CR 78 near La Belle, Florida:

January 17, 2017, challenge:
A BGS with five or more shields on it.

I-85 Business? (et al...lots of al) in Greensboro, NC:

January 10, 2017
Challenge: Post signs featuring the names of famous people on them.

Jimmy Johnson Boulevard in Port Arthur, Texas...his hometown.
(Or, they really like the multi-championship-winning NASCAR driver. )

[PHLBOS]

January 28 Challenge: BGSes that have blank spots where route shields used to be

I-95 shield was on this BGS for only a few short years; it was removed when I-95 was rerouted around Boston via 128:

January 30, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that suggest an unintentionally funny phrase or combination of words.

[hbelkins]

The NASCAR driver spells his name Jimmie Johnson, and I thought he was from California.

[busman_49]

January 27, 2017 Challenge: Post any road or sign photo that also shows beautiful winter scenery.

Somewhere along US 33 south of Columbus:
rt33southbridge_0109 by Ryan busman_49, on Flickr

January 28 Challenge: BGSes that have blank spots where route shields used to be

A stretch of road formerly known as OH 126:
P1160504 by Ryan busman_49, on Flickr

[MNHighwayMan]

January 21, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of bannered route shield assemblies containing at least one banner other than Business (or BUS), Alternate (or ALT) or Truck.

Two different OLD route assemblies:

January 29th challenge:
Post photos of conflicting signage.

Not sure if this is conflicting, but it definitely is confusing.

[formulanone]

The NASCAR driver spells his name Jimmie Johnson, and I thought he was from California.

Ah, both true.

[jmd41280]

January 25 Challenge: Commercial logos on BGS (green directional signs)

Logos for the Baltimore Orioles and M&T Bank Stadium on I-95 in Baltimore

Interstate 95/395 Interchange Sign by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[empirestate]

January 31, 2017
Challenge: Post photos that juxtapose roads and/or road traffic with a guided transit system (light rail, streetcar, trackless trolley, funicular–anything beyond conventional buses and free-driven vehicles).

And don't forget–all January Challenges are open for one more day!

[dgolub]

Torne Valley Road (Rockland CR 95) next to the Port Jervis Line of the Metro-North Railroad:

[PHLBOS]

January 31, 2017
Challenge: Post photos that juxtapose roads and/or road traffic with a guided transit system (light rail, streetcar, trackless trolley, funicular–anything beyond conventional buses and free-driven vehicles).

Philadelphia: I-95 & SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line (aka the 'El') between the Spring Garden station and where it tunnels underground.

[jbnv]

January 30, 2017 (via end-of-month rule) Post signs that suggest an unintentionally funny phrase or combination of words.

Well, since someone already posted Baptist Pumpkin Center, here's another one from Louisiana. Credit southeastroads.com. (Spoiler alert: Actually, there's only one.)

[bassoon1986]

January 30, 2017 (via end-of-month rule) Post signs that suggest an unintentionally funny phrase or combination of words.

Also: January 6th challenge:
Post photos showing two consecutive route numbers (need not be the same route type)




iPhone

[Eth]

January 31, 2017
Challenge: Post photos that juxtapose roads and/or road traffic with a guided transit system (light rail, streetcar, trackless trolley, funicular–anything beyond conventional buses and free-driven vehicles).

MARTA's Red and Gold lines crossing over I-20:



The northern end of MARTA's Red Line at North Springs station, accessible from GA 400 (at right):

[empirestate]

Okay, the January recap is a wrap! Let's move on to our next exciting month of Challenges...

February 1, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of route shields containing hyphens, or any other punctuation or diacritical marks.

[Jim]

February 1, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of route shields containing hyphens, or any other punctuation or diacritical marks.

I'll go for some easy ones on 1&9 in New Jersey.

Linden.  September 15, 2007.



Jersey City.  April 12, 2008.