Longest distance from exit ramp to control point city

[shoptb1]

there's probably a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot recreation area.  Wait, no, this is Utah.  Water Tango Foxtrot, then.

Nice.  

[Sykotyk]

http://www.scvresources.com/highways/us_6/us6086.htm



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[huskeroadgeek]

http://www.scvresources.com/highways/us_6/us6086.htm



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That's quite a large shield for just one digit. It looks like it was intended for a "101" shield.

[golden eagle]

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Just got this photo from Michael Summa, who took it in the late 70s.

760 miles to San Francisco, 790 to Portland.  We may very well have a winner!

I can see 80 going to Salt Lake and San Francisco, but to Ogden and Portland?

[TheStranger]

I can see 80 going to Salt Lake and San Francisco, but to Ogden and Portland?

That's I-80N (notice the small "N" suffix at the bottom of the shield), today's I-84.

[thenetwork]

Not sure about the longest mileage sign, but I know Las Vegas begins appearing on mileage signs at some point on I-70 WB W. of Denver.

Outside of Grand Junction, it shows Las Vegas as 541 Miles. I can't recall offhand if there is one for Vegas further east, but equally odd is their consistent mileage signs in Western Colorado showing the distance to I-15, the remaining miles of I-70 West.

[golden eagle]

U.S. 49 in Jackson uses Hattiesburg as the control point city. Once it splits from I-20, Hattiesburg is 84 miles. Meridian is a control point city for U.S. 45 in the Starkville-Columbus area and that's around 90 or so miles.

[elsmere241]

(courtesy AA Roads)


Reno is listed in Salt Lake City, a full 526 miles away.

There was a time when it was listed farther east than that.  In fact, at the 80/84 split (near Echo Junction, UT) I-80 west was signed to Salt Lake and San Francisco at least as late as 1980.

[agentsteel53]

There was a time when it was listed farther east than that.  In fact, at the 80/84 split (near Echo Junction, UT) I-80 west was signed to Salt Lake and San Francisco at least as late as 1980.

furthermore, I-80N was signed to Portland, which is even farther away.

[Bickendan]

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Just got this photo from Michael Summa, who took it in the late 70s.

760 miles to San Francisco, 790 to Portland.  We may very well have a winner!

We also now know how to cram the suffix onto a 2di shield! Nice!

[agentsteel53]

that had been previously well-known.  The 1957 spec put the suffix under the number, but had never formally specified how to do it, so at least two variants exist:


6" numbers, 5" suffix (standard with no suffix is 8" numbers on this size blank)


8" numbers, 3" suffix (well, this sign is 12" numbers since it is a larger sign, but proportionately speaking...)

in 1961, with the introduction of the wider shield, the suffix on the same line as the number took over for the most part

[Bickendan]

I almost prefer the 57 spec. I take it that's not going to be an option in the Shield Creator, right?

[agentsteel53]

I almost prefer the 57 spec. I take it that's not going to be an option in the Shield Creator, right?

it would be an implementation hassle, because it's a fourth line of text...

[Bickendan]

I'll take the MN shield as a consolation then

[agentsteel53]

which MN shield is this?

[Bickendan]

The blue and gold state highway shield.

[agentsteel53]

The blue and gold state highway shield.

oh, you want me to add that to the shield generator? okay, I'll see what I can do.  That's a nice design, and there's so few of them left out there.  I found a 210 a couple months ago and that's offhand all I remember.

Do you know what year they changed the numbers to white?  Must be after 1972 because state 210 was US-210 until then.

[kkt]

http://www.scvresources.com/highways/us_6/us6086.htm



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The image is no longer at that URL.  Perhaps this is the one that's meant, US 6 eastbound from its endpoint in Bishop, CA?  https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3854278,-118.3953891,3a,37.5y,23.55h,89.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sD0sPSCPXo2vVapeVHDcBhg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[roadman]

8" numbers, 3" suffix (well, this sign is 12" numbers since it is a larger sign, but proportionately speaking...)

So some states obviously opted for barricade crashing instead of ribbon cutting to open new Interstates - interesting.

[thenetwork]

There's the sign for Denver at the west terminus of I-70, which I believe is about 500 miles to the east of the I-15 junction.

Then you have the Memphis control city used on the I-57 signs in Chicago.  I believe those may eclipse the Denver CC at the I-15/I-70 junction by a few dozen miles.

[Greybear]

Try this one on for size: at the I-10/I-20 split in West Texas, control city for I-10 East is San Antonio, while the control cities for I-20 East are Fort Worth and Dallas.

Another instance, at the I-20/I-30 split west of Fort Worth, control cities listed for I-20 East are Dallas and Shreveport, while I-30 East has Downtown Fort Worth.

[Buffaboy]

I'd have to imagine it's been mentioned already, but Albany (300 mi) is the eastbound control city around all I-90 Buffalo exits. And vice versa.

[lepidopteran]

On I-295 SB in Delaware, 2 exits after the toll plaza for the Memorial Bridge, did the BGS for the US-13 SB exit use to say Norfolk?  I seem to recall the middle line reading "New Castle / Norfolk" (with an actual slash), with Dover on the bottom.  Now it says "New Castle Airport", but one of the signs has uneven spacing before "Airport".  But that exit is about 230 miles away from Norfolk, VA, via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.  While that's not the longest distance to a control point city listed on this thread, it seems a little long for a road that is not a freeway.  Still, that is the most direct route from there to the Norfolk area.  Of course, wouldn't it be more efficient to get to Dover and points south via DE-1 instead and avoid the traffic signals?  The DE-1/I-95 interchange was recently improved after all.

Another example near Toledo, OH in the '70s:  At the I-475/US-23 SB off-ramp to US-20 (Central Ave.), the T-intersection there used to have the following 3 old-school directional signs in a vertical stack.
<-- Secor Park  4
Toledo  6 -->
<-- Chicago 235
(That last mileage is uncertain) Again, it seems odd to have such a long distance marked on a non-freeway, US-20.  The Ohio Turnpike to the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/I-90) would be much faster.  Perhaps those signs were older than I thought, especially since the Toledo city limits were/are less than 2 miles east of that point.  Maybe they predated the turnpike.  The signs are long gone, and the folded-diamond interchange is being converted to an SPUI.
https://www.dot.state.oh.us/districts/D02/Central_475/Pages/default.aspx

[noelbotevera]

Trivial, but in the Northeast, it's a big deal. US 22/US 322 lists "State College" as a control city. The next mileage sign says that State College is 83 miles away.

I'd clal this second place, I-57 lists Memphis at it's northern terminus in Chicago. The Goog calls it 531.9 miles, but for simplicity, rounded up to 532.

[sandwalk]

In Napoleon, Ohio, the US 24 freeway exit to US 6 westbound uses Kendallville, IN and Chicago as the control cities.  Until using the freeway several years ago, I'd never heard of Kendallville. It is about 60 miles from Napoleon. Chicago is about 190 miles from Napoleon (using US 6 and Torrence Avenue, since US 6 does not enter the Chicago city limits). Seems pretty wild for generally a 2-lane surface route in the Great Lakes region to use destinations with such long distances.

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