Gantry overkill?

[chays]

This behemoth spans the entire I-4 freeway in Lake Mary, FL.  Northbound signage is 2 BGS's.  Southbound has one tiny BGS.  Would there be a reason to go with such a huge (and likely much more expensive) gantry than separate, smaller, single-stanchion ones (alliteration unintentional).

https://goo.gl/maps/dBKt6AAL4G22

[txstateends]

That is fairly OTT for a structure that doesn't do anything more than what is pictured.  Maybe if both directions of traffic had really big BGSes, then maybe, but with 3-sided latticing (sp?) used on this one, it's only feasible to do sign mounting in the pictured direction (even though it looks like they tried putting something up before over there but it's gone now).

I almost wish this were a photoshop, then it wouldn't turn out to be such a glaring waste of money.

[national highway 1]

There's already a thread for this topic.
Largest waste of overhead assemblies?

[OracleUsr]

Side note, when FL was using sequential numbering, was this exit 53A A-B-C?

[NE2]

Side note, when FL was using sequential numbering, was this exit 53A A-B-C?

No, since it wasn't all open back then. And it wasn't 53 (53CA-CB was farther east).

[Alex]

even though it looks like they tried putting something up before over there but it's gone now

This panel was affixed over the westbound lanes in 2014.

[chays]

There's already a thread for this topic.
Largest waste of overhead assemblies?

My apologies.  I did do a search but didn't see anything...didn't use the right terms probably.

Mods, please feel free to merge to that thread.