Highway Oddities

[Bryant5493]

A trailblazer for a street? A left tab for a HOV exit, when HOV exits are normally left exits?

No, but you're close. Look at the trailblazers.


Be well,

Bryant

[froggie]

Hard to tell given the poor image quality...

[jdb1234]

Since when did Georgia use exit tabs like that.  Also, to GA 400 East?  I thought GA 400 ran North and South.

[Bryant5493]

Since when did Georgia use exit tabs like that.  Also, to GA 400 East?  I thought GA 400 ran North and South.

They (GDOT) just started replacing the exit signage, where there are HOV exits involved.

You got it right. That's the oddity/error I'm referring to. 400 is signed north-south, not east-west.


Be well,

Bryant

[D-Dey65]

Church Street and Railroad Street in Patchogue, New York, has a "Wrong Way" sign with the colors reversed.

I wish I took a picture of that, but I was saving the film in my camera for other sites in Patchogue.

[D-Dey65]

I just found this in a Wikipedia article on the Katy Trail in Dallas



Seriously, how often do you see yellow & black bicycle signs, other than on standard diamonds?
(Certainly not as often as you see Image Shack links disappear, I can tell you that much! )

[Duke87]

Now this is silly.


I get why they made it green, but considering it's a parking restriction sign that text really ought to be red.

And as far as I'm aware, "fuel efficient car" isn't legally defined by the city of Stamford or the state of Connecticut. So by what standard is this supposed to be enforced? Is it even legally enforceable considering it's green and not red?
Regardless, I smell quick easy parking tickets.

[Brandon]

And as far as I'm aware, "fuel efficient car" isn't legally defined by the city of Stamford or the state of Connecticut. So by what standard is this supposed to be enforced? Is it even legally enforceable considering it's green and not red?
Regardless, I smell quick easy parking tickets.

I sincerely doubt the City of Stamford can define "fuel efficient car" in their city ordinances.  It's a BS sign, completely unenforceable, and easily challenged if some deranged meter maid opts to ticket a vehicle in the space.

[Ian]

Not an odd, just cool:

[shoptb1]

Not an odd, just cool:

That sign is a fantastic, instant visual description of the Richmond layout.  We need more like it!

[TheStranger]

Not an odd, just cool:

That sign is a fantastic, instant visual description of the Richmond layout.  We need more like it!

That'd be pretty awesome for parallel bypass routes/beltways in general...

...though I think for I-405/I-5 in Los Angeles, it wouldn't really be about offering a "better" alternative.   

I can already imagine many other interchanges though in California where this type of signage would be a major improvement: US 101/Route 85 in Mountain View and south San Jose...I-80/US 50-Business 80 in West Sacramento (and I-80/Business 80 in Foothill Farms)...I-805 and I-5 at both ends in San Diego.

[Bickendan]

Not an odd, just cool:

That sign is a fantastic, instant visual description of the Richmond layout.  We need more like it!

Portland has one for I-5 with I-205. Voila!

[corco]

Oregon loves those diagrammatics- here's a few others







There was also a pretty cool set of them erected around Tulsa (may still be there) for the city loop reconstruction:


The best of them all, of course, is the ones along I-80 in the Bridger Valley. Completely useless when you drive by them at 75 MPH

[bugo]

There was also a pretty cool set of them erected around Tulsa (may still be there) for the city loop reconstruction:

Yes, they're still up.

Here's another one, on WB OK 51 approaching I-44:

[shoptb1]

The best of them all, of course, is the ones along I-80 in the Bridger Valley. Completely useless when you drive by them at 75 MPH

Wow...somebody at the sign dept didn't understand the homework assignment LOL

[wandering drive]

Not sure if this is hotlinking, but two classics off of James Teresco's wonderful site:
Burgess Junction
Homestake Pass

I'd love for more metropolitan areas to have diagrams like the Richmond one.  It's incredibly elegant and says exactly what it needs to without any mention of "RECREATION AREA TO FLAMING GORGE."

[corco]

The Burgess Junction signs aren't actually posted parallel to the road though- you have to pull off to see them so the massive amounts of information would be gathered at a standstill, not at freeway speeds.

Wait- never mind. You're right, there is one actually posted on the side of the road. Yikes. On two attempts I couldn't even get a full picture of it there was so much stuff on it!


Also notable because it's the only US-14A shield in Wyoming (others are 14 ALT)

[Ian]

Wow, the ones corco posted beat the heck out of mine! Nice and diagrammic!

[hbelkins]

Wait- never mind. You're right, there is one actually posted on the side of the road. Yikes. On two attempts I couldn't even get a full picture of it there was so much stuff on it!


Also notable because it's the only US-14A shield in Wyoming (others are 14 ALT)

14A (or Alt. 14) is two miles shorter. How do the travel times compare?

The one time I was there, we took 14 through Shell Canyon.

[corco]

Travel times end up being about the same with 14 being slightly faster. Open road you could probably do 14A faster, but odds are ridiculously high you get stuck behind an RV or semitruck going down the hills, which can be bad on 14 but brutal on 14A. Plus it seems like it takes a lot more time to get through Lovell then it does through Greybull (you just clip the northern part of downtown Greybull as opposed to going through all of Lovell, which has a horrendously long 30 MPH zone) and then there's Powell to slow down for too, so 14 is a better route.

14A is a bit more scenic - the mountainous descent down with Big Horn reservoir in the distance is pretty cool. You're not in a canyon so much as just driving down a mountainside, which makes the views more spectacular.  14 as you know is also quite scenic.

[Kacie Jane]

God, those Wyoming signs are beautiful.  But at the same time, given the purpose of a road sign (to give information quickly), they're pretty hideous.

[agentsteel53]

God, those Wyoming signs are beautiful.  But at the same time, given the purpose of a road sign (to give information quickly), they're pretty hideous.

they are placed in truck brake-check areas, where ostensibly the vehicle is stopped, and the driver has the time to ponder the sign. 

the question is, how much will you remember by around the third steep downgrade?

[corco]

they are placed in truck brake-check areas, where ostensibly the vehicle is stopped, and the driver has the time to ponder the sign.

the question is, how much will you remember by around the third steep downgrade?

The 14A sign actually isn't. There's one in a truck brake check area, but there's also one posted on the side of the road like any other sign.

The Bridger Valley sign isn't posted in a brake check area either (actually, there might be one in each direction in a parking area, but the other 4  or 6 are out on the freeway)

[agentsteel53]

The 14A sign actually isn't. There's one in a truck brake check area, but there's also one posted on the side of the road like any other sign.

I don't recall how much the Burgess Junction sign was set back from the road.  When I was there (Dec 10, 2009), US-14A was closed, and some of the ramps at the split were unplowed.  Also, there was absolutely no one around - I do not remember where I stopped (likely just in the travel lanes for US-14) but I definitely got out and got a good photo of the diagrammatical.

The sign is definitely turned 90 degrees from the usual, so one has to pull alongside and study it.  I don't recall if the other ones are that way as well.

[corco]

The sign is definitely turned 90 degrees from the usual, so one has to pull alongside and study it.  I don't recall if the other ones are that way as well.

Yeah, but about a mile beyond that one is another identical sign that's definitely not 90 degrees off. There's two signs- the first one is 90 degrees off and the second is straight. The Bridger Valley ones are absolutely not 90 degrees either- there's one by each of the first two exits each direction, and then a third for each direction in a parking area (facing 90 degrees)

I remember my specific thought process when I was there in August- it went "Holy diagrammatical Batman! I need a picture of that- I'll get it when I come around later today" and then like a minute later there was another one and I was able to get an almost complete picture of it.