Daily Picture Challenge!

[TravelingBethelite]

The above image by formulaone is also broken for me. Anyway, here's my submission for today's challenge:

April 21, 2017: Post pictures of signs with actual birds resting/sitting on them.

[Mergingtraffic]

Non-reflective button copy at the Wellington T Station. Medford, MA. Sign dates to 1974. by mergingtraffic, on Flickr

Are you sure that sign is dated 1974?  By the late 60s, that porcelain-style sheeting was already obsolete for the MassDPW.  They were one of the first to ditch the porcelain panels in favor of extruded panels.

I'm guessing that BGS is an MDC-install rather than a DPW install.

Thst sign is extruded. Although it's hard to tell in the photo. The "T Wellington Station" signs on MA-16 were also extruded and had a 1974 label on the back. They might be gone now tho.

[empirestate]

April 22, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that give instructions on the actual operation of your vehicle, as opposed to navigation.

Not just "go slow" or "keep left", but things to do with the vehicle itself, or its equipment, such as headlight reminders, low gear advisories, tire chain regulations and so forth. But exclude restrictions on entire classes of vehicle ("no trucks", "buses only", etc.).

[TravelingBethelite]

April 22, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that give instructions on the actual operation of your vehicle, as opposed to navigation.

As seen just before Exit 1 on I-84 westbound in Port Jervis.

[US71]

April 22, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that give instructions on the actual operation of your vehicle, as opposed to navigation.

Missouri

[Michael]

Here's one on NY 104 eastbound west of Oswego.

This one is on NY 90 westbound east of Locke. This is the biggest hill I've ever seen and been on. It doesn't start off too bad (pan around to see the whole first part of the hill), and the first portion after the brake check area isn't bad either (again, pan to see the whole part of the hill).  There's a section after the brake check area that even starts going uphill!  Soon after, it starts going downlill again, but it just looks like a long hill that's a little steep.  All of a sudden, the road gets even steeper. The Street View image doesn't look steep, but pan around and look at the side of the road.  As an added bonus, there's a 4-way stop at the bottom of the hill, and a 15 MPH reverse turn shortly after the stop sign!  There's a stop ahead sign with a 1 1/2 miles ahead plaque (the longest distance I've ever seen on one) just before the brake check area.

[empirestate]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

It could be from the other side of the world, or just the other end of your state; it doesn't really matter. The challenge is to pick just one, from the most faraway or random place you've been, the one that involved the greatest adventure to get to, or whatever you decide.

For me, I think it must be this one:

IMG_1972

That's the Lenin monument on the plaza between pl. Lenina and ul. Leninskaya in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. This was tough for me because, though this is easily the most random place I've visited, it's not the greatest road photo; I have a much better one from the same voyage taken in Dutch Harbor, AK (near where the road crosses an active runway, complete with railroad-style warning gates). But ultimately, that's my own country, and by my rules, I gotta pick just one!

(Oh, and obviously this is a no-StreetView Challenge–it has to be a photo from your own collection.)

[MNHighwayMan]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

I'm going to choose this one, just because until two days ago I'd never driven to Missouri before.

[Jim]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

This is a tough one.  The trip with the most candidates was Alaska, but nearly all of the travels on that were on or near the main roads.  I'm tempted to post something from the Piilani Highway on Maui instead.  There are also some good candidates from various trips in the southwestern U.S.  But I'll go with one of the highlights of the ride up the Alaska Highway, this in a very remote area.  One of the crossings into the Yukon north/westbound.  June 12, 2001.

[Eth]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

Well, my answer for this one is a lot more interesting than it would have been a couple weeks ago.

Paradise Beach Dr, Nassau, Bahamas. Note both the driving on the left and the UK-style signage.

[formulanone]

Friday is Fly-day! Continuing the "high" theme...

April 21, 2017: Post pictures of signs with actual birds resting/sitting on them.

This one comes up broken for me.

me too

It shows on my end. I've linked to my Google Photos account and nobody's said anything so far. Usually I Flickr, but there's many photos that I never uploaded there due to their old non-Pro limits, so I allowed Google to duplicate up everything, up to and including all my older photos. And in a pinch, Google reads the file names in a search better than Flickr (which reads tags, titles, and descriptions...it's only as good as the info I give it).

Maybe only those logged into Google (or perhaps only me) can see it...sorry about that.

[hotdogPi]

Friday is Fly-day! Continuing the "high" theme...

April 21, 2017: Post pictures of signs with actual birds resting/sitting on them.

This one comes up broken for me.

me too

It shows on my end. I've linked to my Google Photos account and nobody's said anything so far. Usually I Flickr, but there's many photos that I never uploaded there due to their old non-Pro limits, so I allowed Google to duplicate up everything, up to and including all my older photos. And in a pinch, Google reads the file names in a search better than Flickr (which reads tags, titles, and descriptions...it's only as good as the info I give it).

Maybe only those logged into Google (or perhaps only me) can see it...sorry about that.

I'm logged into Google. (I just used Google Docs and Google Slides less than a minute ago.) I can't see it.

[formulanone]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad:

[TravelingBethelite]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

I'm not sure if this is the remotest, but it's pretty damn close; regardless, this was taken somewhere near Las Terrazas, in Artemisa Province, Cuba.

[US71]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

About as close as I can get to "remote".  Buford, WY. There is a campground about 5 miles north in the mountains and this is the last sign you see on paved road.

[SignGeek101]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

Taken at the top of Sulphur Mountain, showing AB 1 at the Range Road 103 trumpet interchange. A wildlife overpass is also seen in the background.

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/bRCQf3HYLUD2

[paulthemapguy]

April 23, 2017
Challenge: Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

This would probably be when I drove all the way to Pearsall, TX and stayed in a hotel there, just so I could get a picture of US57.  To stretch my legs and wind down before bed, I walked around Pearsall to find various residential properties with unpaved driveways and chickens roaming free.  It was a new world for this suburban Chicago native.


IMG_0499 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[jbnv]

April 23, 2017 Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

Fraser, BC. Border patrol. I wasn't into viatological photography at the time, so the pictures I did get weren't very good.

[Mergingtraffic]

Old colored US-27 shield dating to 1971. Lake Placid, FL. by mergingtraffic, on Flickr



US-27 NB, Lake Placid, FL. Look at that grading on the curve. by mergingtraffic, on Flickr
Lake Placid, FL in the middle on nowhere.

[empirestate]

Old colored US-27 shield dating to 1971. Lake Placid, FL. by mergingtraffic, on Flickr



US-27 NB, Lake Placid, FL. Look at that grading on the curve. by mergingtraffic, on Flickr
Lake Placid, FL in the middle on nowhere.

Which one are you choosing to answer the Challenge?

[7/8]

April 23, 2017 Post the single most remote or exotic road picture in your collection.

I guess the most "exotic" road picture I have would be Quebec due to the French signage. So here's a photo of I sign I like, which basically means "watch for children, because they may be yours."

For the record, I'm in Saskatchewan, so it's only 10:07 in my time zone.

[MNHighwayMan]

April 24, 2017: Numeric coincidences: any signed combination of mile markers, route markers, exit numbers, or others! If the two numbers weren't intended to be the same but ended up that way anyway, it applies here.

To clarify, for example, I'm not looking for mile 20 on highway 20 unless the two are signed together on the same post or are very close together (close enough to be contained in a single photograph).

I'll start with mile marker 2 of Iowa 81 being on a JCT IA-2 assembly

[TravelingBethelite]

April 24, 2017: Numeric coincidences: any signed combination of mile markers, route markers, exit numbers, or others! If the two numbers weren't intended to be the same but ended up that way anyway, it applies here.

I am not sure if this counts, but here's I-79, at mile marker 79, on mile marker 79!
(you might need to zoom in...)

[US71]

April 24, 2017: Numeric coincidences: any signed combination of mile markers, route markers, exit numbers, or others! If the two numbers weren't intended to be the same but ended up that way anyway, it applies here.

I-40, Lamar, AR


I-540 I-49/ US 71 Fayetteville, AR

[paulthemapguy]

April 24, 2017: Numeric coincidences: any signed combination of mile markers, route markers, exit numbers, or others! If the two numbers weren't intended to be the same but ended up that way anyway, it applies here.

Exit 31 is US31 along I-465 in Indiana


IN-I-465-US31NW by Paul Drives, on Flickr