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Started by VCB02FromRoblox, May 06, 2014, 01:12:19 PM

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VCB02FromRoblox

This topic is to show off any old freeway signs you've seen.
What freeway signs could really use a replacement in your opinion? Or have already been replaced.
I'll start:





BTW I don't live in MD.


PHLBOS

IMHO, those MD examples along I-95 don't really need to be replaced.  The exit tabs, which were clearly added later, have less reflectivitiy than the original button-copy BGS'.
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VCB02FromRoblox

#2
Quote from: PHLBOS on May 06, 2014, 01:17:32 PM
IMHO, those MD examples along I-95 don't really need to be replaced.  The exit tabs, which were clearly added later, have less reflectivitiy than the original button-copy BGS'.

I noticed that. Well. All those signs have already been replaced anyway...
Clearview as you expected....

https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_08.jpg
https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_09.jpg
https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_029_10.jpg
https://www.aaroads.com/mid-atlantic/maryland095/i-095_nb_exit_035_02.jpg

BrianP


Zeffy

Stealing from AARoads.com (since I can't take photos myself... and I'm sure Alex won't mind  :)):




R.I.P.  :-(





Life would be boring if we didn't take an offramp every once in a while

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SidS1045

In far worse shape now than it was when this picture was taken:

http://goo.gl/maps/62mv8
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roadman

Quote from: SidS1045 on May 06, 2014, 03:41:14 PM
In far worse shape now than it was when this picture was taken:

http://goo.gl/maps/62mv8

And will be going away for good shortly, once the structure and other signs are replaced under the ongoing I-95 Wellseley to Lexington sign replacement project.
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VCB02FromRoblox

Quote from: SidS1045 on May 06, 2014, 03:41:14 PM
In far worse shape now than it was when this picture was taken:

http://goo.gl/maps/62mv8

Wow... that I-95 shield is really faded.

VCB02FromRoblox

Another old freeway sign, A truck had struck it and the sign revealed an original button copy route shield for MD 212 on southbound I-95. I also noticed the exit tabs look older than the ones heading northbound I-95.


hbelkins

I took this picture in the fall of 2009 just a few weeks before the sign was damaged:

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jakeroot

Two in a row near Tacoma, WA:

Center BGS is one of the last button copies in Washington. Sign on right and left both are old enough that they cover up the old WA-410 designation from the early 70s.


Alex

The oldest I can recall seeing were these in Philadelphia:






BrianP

They really need to put this one out of its misery in Camden NJ:
http://goo.gl/maps/IAx7q

hotdogPi

Quote from: BrianP on May 07, 2014, 02:27:33 PM
They really need to put this one out of its misery in Camden NJ:
http://goo.gl/maps/IAx7q

Just remove the vandalism and straighten it. No replacement needed.
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Zeffy

Quote from: 1 on May 07, 2014, 03:29:23 PM
Just remove the vandalism and straighten it. No replacement needed.

I would patch up the I-676 shield as well, but yeah, no replacement needed here.
Life would be boring if we didn't take an offramp every once in a while

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PHLBOS

#15
Quote from: Alex on May 07, 2014, 07:37:52 AM
The oldest I can recall seeing were these in Philadelphia:







Those are long gone; but those likely were the original Expressway signage and when the road was initially PA 43.
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corco

This fellow on the left has held up nice- I took this photo in 2010, but it was still there when I was in the area a few weeks ago


SidS1045

Quote from: VCB02FromRoblox on May 06, 2014, 06:05:02 PM
Wow... that I-95 shield is really faded.

At this point in time you can't even tell that the I-95 shield was ever painted or numbered.  The green reflective sheet on the rest of the BGS is in shreds.

Roadman's prediction can't come soon enough.  It's beyond being an embarassment.
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JoePCool14

Drive down I-94 into Chicago and you'll see plenty of button-copy (and some very ugly Clearview). Most button copy signs on Tollways have been replaced with Clearview now.  :banghead:

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jakeroot

Quote from: JoePCool14 on May 09, 2014, 07:17:19 AM
Drive down I-94 into Chicago and you'll see plenty of button-copy (and some very ugly Clearview). Most button copy signs on Tollways have been replaced with Clearview now.  :banghead:

I don't really follow anything in Illinois, but I just plopped street view down on a select few points on the Tollway, and the Clearview seems pretty good? A few negative-contrast uses but that's nothing new.

JoePCool14

Quote from: jake on May 09, 2014, 04:40:43 PM
Quote from: JoePCool14 on May 09, 2014, 07:17:19 AM
Drive down I-94 into Chicago and you'll see plenty of button-copy (and some very ugly Clearview). Most button copy signs on Tollways have been replaced with Clearview now.  :banghead:

I don't really follow anything in Illinois, but I just plopped street view down on a select few points on the Tollway, and the Clearview seems pretty good? A few negative-contrast uses but that's nothing new.

Anyone have a pic of their new iPass tollbooth signs please?

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