You Know You're A Roadgeek If...

[elsmere241]

You see roadsigns included in a playset and are disappointed they aren't properly designed to MUTCD standards.

You drew road signs, road names, lane markings, etc. on your building blocks.

[kphoger]

You see roadsigns included in a playset and are disappointed they aren't properly designed to MUTCD standards.

You drew road signs, road names, lane markings, etc. on your building blocks.

Ooh, I totally drew sign legend on my wooden Brio train tracks.  Now my son uses the old ones with the Thomas ones (interchangeable), and we all get a kick out of my drawings.

[Alps]

You know you're not a true roadgeek if your avatar is either I-99 or I-238

Fuck you.

Half the people in this forum would take you up on that offer.

[Brandon]

You see roadsigns included in a playset and are disappointed they aren't properly designed to MUTCD standards.

You drew road signs, road names, lane markings, etc. on your building blocks.

Ever make a sign gantry with LEGOs?  I have.

[US71]

Ever make a sign gantry with LEGOs?  I have.

I made my own hand-drawn signs and used Lincoln Logs for sign posts.

[Henry]

You see roadsigns included in a playset and are disappointed they aren't properly designed to MUTCD standards.

You drew road signs, road names, lane markings, etc. on your building blocks.

Ever make a sign gantry with LEGOs?  I have.

I'm sure a lot of us have.

[Scott5114]

I used to make cities out of masking tape on cardboard. The gantries were glued-together toothpicks. The signs were initially cardboard with Sharpie; I later upgraded them to printouts made in Word with Blue Highway font (since that's all that was around at the time).

[Dr Frankenstein]

Mack doesn't keep to the right lane as much as he should.   

I tend to keep left too much when I'm tired too.

There's a button-copy US-66 shield. 

Cutout, too!

Radiator Springs has a four-way flashing yellow; if the cross street had a STOP sign, it would flash red; if it were an uncontrolled intersection, I doubt there'd be a flashing light. 

Nobody cares; Radiator Springs is Hillbilly Hell. (My IQ's dropping by the second! I'm becoming one of theeemmmm!!)

I guess you're a roadgeek if you watch a cartoon and notice this stuff.

Have a look at the overhead signage as Mack leaves the track with Lightning at the beginning. Those have to be the most MUTCD-accurate signs I've ever seen in a cartoon. Not necessarily realistic though (they mix NJ and CA shields on the same overhead assembly), but I think it was intentional.

Also, I dig the wigwags at the crossing on US 66 between I-40 and Radiator Springs! (When Lightning beats the train à la Fast n' Furious)

[texaskdog]

If your favorite part of American Pickers is the signs (including when they are driving down all the roads)

[D-Dey65]

You're always ready to tell people about the details and history of the roads they're driving on, whether they can handle them or not.

[texaskdog]

You're always ready to tell people about the details and history of the roads they're driving on, whether they can handle them or not.

Amen, brother

[Grzrd]

You're looking for information about proposed routes for the Pan American Highway through the Darien Gap, you Google "proposed route darien gap highway", and the top link of the results from the search is to an AARoads Forum thread you started a little over a year ago (and doesn't answer the question).

[texaskdog]

If you get excited that your 500th post moves you from County Route to State Highway

[D-Dey65]

If you get excited that your 500th post moves you from County Route to State Highway

So that's why I'm still rated at County Road.

At some point, I'm going to add those stories of how I tried to tell random people about road histories and other road info.

[Grzrd]

Texas: I-69 (extension)
*RE_ I-69 Designations.pdf

(above quote from AASHTO meeting May 18, 2012 thread)

When you are looking at AASHTO materials regarding a Texas application for an I-69 designation and notice that one of your emails is included in the materials. 

[sr641]

Your screensaver is highway shields 

Indiana 641 is my desktop screen.
Post Merge: May 11, 2012, 07:07:26 PM

you argue with your GPS about the route it suggests or the wrong highway numbers it says

friends call you from other cities they are lost in and you are not there

get aggravated when Google street view doesn't move as fast as you'd like, or when it doesn't have street view for a particular street or angle you want to see

you're constantly trying to read signs on the opposite direction on an interstate as you drive by to see what is changed from the other way

you made roads with exits out of crayons as a kid for your toy cars to drive on

I just built a city out of wood so I can drive my cars on it.

[adt1982]

Your screensaver is highway shields 

Indiana 641 is my desktop screen.

Your name is SR641 (SR being state road), so why is your avatar a US shield???

[sr641]

Your screensaver is highway shields 

Indiana 641 is my desktop screen.

Your name is SR641 (SR being state road), so why is your avatar a US shield???

It was the only 641 I could find on this site.

[agentsteel53]

It was the only 641 I could find on this site.

well, you're still ahead of Morriswa in terms of general motivation.

[Mr. Matté]

...when a radio announcer reads the temperatures for various cities, you call the announcer right or wrong based on whether or not that route exists in that town.

i.e. "Toms River, 59 [WRONG] Hightstown, 65 [WRONG] Vineland, 55 [RIGHT!]"

[D-Dey65]

You offer highway departments so many fantastic and detailed ideas, they think you're an engineer, even if you aren't.



(Yes, I've done that too).

[mgk920]

You offer highway departments so many fantastic and detailed ideas, they think you're an engineer, even if you aren't.



(Yes, I've done that too).

And especially when aspects of projects that are built look amazingly like the drawings that you gave then several years earlier and/or set the final design concept decisions back by weeks or even months.

(GUILTY! on both counts!  )

Mike

[texaskdog]

When you set up your model trains, the roads were just as important

[kphoger]

You offer highway departments so many fantastic and detailed ideas, they think you're an engineer, even if you aren't.



(Yes, I've done that too).

I recently offered a bridge engineer friend of mine an off-the-cuff idea for alleviating some traffic congestion along a major corridor here in Wichita.  Not a lot of serious thought, just an idea.  He replied that he thought there might be a project under study that nearly matches what I suggested.

[J N Winkler]

Kphoger--out of curiosity, what was your idea?