Trucks, Don't Go This Way. Go This Way Instead.

[PHLBOS]

Although there is a signed hazmat route through Downtown Boston, the issue of hazardous cargoes on local streets continues to spawn protests from neighborhood groups and some elected officials. As such, MassHighway was requested to install these signs about a year after the O'Neill Tunnel was opened to traffic.

Not to be harsh, but that's the price one pays for burying the only through-interstate in the city.

For such items to get to/from downtown Boston, there aren't too many roadway options.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Trucks are discouraged on CA-41 between Atascadero and CA-46 http://goo.gl/maps/nzRUP and http://goo.gl/maps/vxhed. We drove 41 in our pickup, and indeed it is very twisty and not truck-friendly. I was glad I wasn't towing.

[talllguy]

Last week I saw one of those "GPS Routing Not Recommended" signs along US 460 westbound approaching a Virginia secondary route between Blacksburg and Pearisburg, but I didn't get a photo of it.

Yep. There's also one for VA 43 between the Blue Ridge Parkway and Buchanan.

I'd love to see that!

[ZLoth]

I-5 Southbound and CA-99 Southbound near Bakersfield have dedicated truck/car lanes. Why they split up? I don't know.

[talllguy]

I-5 Southbound and CA-99 Southbound near Bakersfield have dedicated truck/car lanes. Why they split up? I don't know.

To keep slower traffic right? But why the different color schemes? Also busses can be just as slow as trucks.

[Bitmapped]

In Maryland, there are signs on I-68 eastbound telling truck traffic to use Exit 34 (MD 36) to reach Luke rather than Exit 4 or Exit 19.  Coming in from the west, MD 135 drops about 2000 feet in elevation.  The last couple miles are have a 10mph or 15mph truck speed limit.

There is also some signage on PA 43 south of Uniontown giving alternate truck routings for reaching Smithfield and Point Marion.

[PHLBOS]

In Peabody/Danvers, MA: how MA 114 truck traffic is routed to avoid Gardner St.

LGS along Margin St. (MA 114 Westbound).  Truck traffic is routed onto MA 35 North (Margin/Water St.)

Westbound Truck 114 turn-off at Water St. (MA 35) & Liberty St. intersection

Side bar question to Roadman (should he see this post): When is the reconstruction project in the background ever going to be fully completed?  That area's been like that w/no construction progress activity for several years now.

Supplemental LGS along MA 114 Eastbound directing trucks to bypass Gardner St. (& use Pulaski/Liberty St.) at Pulaski St./Gardner St. intersection.

Small sign directing Eastbound 114 truck traffic to turn onto Water/Margin St. (MA 35 South). 

Note: there were LGS' that displayed both 35 North & South movements prior to (see empty post from the mid-70s) and after this intersection was reconfigured over 2 decades ago (traces of post & LGS' are gone); but other than one rather pitiful NORTH 35 trailblazer sign (not state spec'd), that's practically it in terms of intersection route signage.