Daily Picture Challenge!

[Jim]

September 19, 2017: Pictures of a dying breed of BGS: diagrammatic signs.

I-290 in Auburn, Massachusetts as of March 24, 2001.



Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx.  September 14, 2007.



And to I-690 in Syracuse.  June 29, 2016.

[hbelkins]

September 19, 2017: Pictures of a dying breed of BGS: diagrammatic signs.

I have a bunch, but I'll just throw this one in.

2017 Upper Midwest Trip Day 1 - 090 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

[Eth]

September 19, 2017: Pictures of a dying breed of BGS: diagrammatic signs.

Georgia's are indeed going away, but here are three photos from last year.

A simple one on I-285:



One with a funky layout on I-575:



And how about one with exits from both sides? This one on I-20:

[formulanone]

September 19, 2017: Pictures of a dying breed of BGS: diagrammatic signs.

[wanderer2575]

September 19, 2017: Pictures of a dying breed of BGS: diagrammatic signs.

Approaching the Brent Spence Bridge:




I-696 in Farmington Hills -- this one was removed a week ago and replaced with two separate signs on a gantry.

[jmd41280]

September 19, 2017: Pictures of a dying breed of BGS: diagrammatic signs.

I-78 Exit 54 in Allentown, PA

On the Road by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

I-99 Exit 62 near Port Matilda, PA

I-99 near Port Matilda, PA by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

I-81 Exit 72 (I-77 north split) in Wytheville, VA

I-77 / I-81 Split by Jon Dawson, on Flickr

[JJBers]

I guess I'll come up with today's challenge

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

Here's this beauty

I-90 by JJBers, on Flickr

[US71]

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

Jonesboro, AR


South of Booneville, AR


Alma, AR

[PHLBOS]

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

[roadman]

September 19, 2017: Pictures of a dying breed of BGS: diagrammatic signs.

I-290 in Auburn, Massachusetts as of March 24, 2001.

Unfortunately, this sign is no more.  It was struck by an overheight truck last April.  Both the sign and horizontal member of the structure were removed, and the sign was replaced with a temporary (and conventional) ground-mounted sign.  Under the pending I-290 Auburn to Worcester sign replacement project, the remaining diagrammatics for Exit 7 are to be replace with conventional signs, as traffic will be directed to use Route 12 via Exit 8 instead of Exit 7.

[PHLBOS]

September 19, 2017: Pictures of a dying breed of BGS: diagrammatic signs.

I-290 in Auburn, Massachusetts as of March 24, 2001.

Unfortunately, this sign is no more.  It was struck by an overheight truck last April.  Both the sign and horizontal member of the structure were removed, and the sign was replaced with a temporary (and conventional) ground-mounted sign.  Under the pending I-290 Auburn to Worcester sign replacement project, the remaining diagrammatics for Exit 7 are to be replace with conventional signs, as traffic will be directed to use Route 12 via Exit 8 instead of Exit 7.

Will the Exit 7 ramp to Route 12 North (prior to where the Pike tollbooths once were) be eliminated?

Current Exit 8 signage is signed for Route 12 South.  I'm not sure of the actual traffic counts for either ramp but do you really want to dump more traffic onto Oxford St. which is largely residential?

[formulanone]

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

Occasionally, Florida thinks we're nearly blind:

(...but I love the clouds in this shot.)

[Truvelo]

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

How do you define large? Looking through my photos I see several where the numbers fill the available space. It doesn't seem particularly rare.

[JJBers]

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

How do you define large? Looking through my photos I see several where the numbers fill the available space. It doesn't seem particularly rare.

The challenges aren't really supposed to be rare, consider this a free pass.

[MNHighwayMan]

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

How do you define large? Looking through my photos I see several where the numbers fill the available space. It doesn't seem particularly rare.

The challenges aren't really supposed to be rare, consider this a free pass.

But they are supposed to be a challenge.

[paulthemapguy]

The challenges aren't really supposed to be rare, consider this a free pass.

But they are supposed to be a challenge.

THANK YOU.  This is one of several recent challenges that fail to be challenges.  That failure led me to abstain from posting, and I will also do that here.  The criteria can't just be super-easy "post a picture where the sky is blue."  Make it interesting. 

[noelbotevera]

The challenges aren't really supposed to be rare, consider this a free pass.

But they are supposed to be a challenge.

THANK YOU.  This is one of several recent challenges that fail to be challenges.  That failure led me to abstain from posting, and I will also do that here.  The criteria can't just be super-easy "post a picture where the sky is blue."  Make it interesting.

I think I'll try my hand at attempting to make something interesting. Just need to wait 90 minutes.

[JJBers]

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

How do you define large? Looking through my photos I see several where the numbers fill the available space. It doesn't seem particularly rare.

The challenges aren't really supposed to be rare, consider this a free pass.

But they are supposed to be a challenge.

I posted my challenge at 8:46 am, I think if there is a good challenge, post earlier than 8:46 am.

[MNHighwayMan]

I posted my challenge at 8:46 am, I think if there is a good challenge, post earlier than 8:46 am.

Unless you've got something that isn't either too easy or too difficult, just don't post and let someone else make one. It's really quite simple.

[7/8]

September 21st: Post road sign photos that contain both imperial and metric units.

This speed limit sign was taken on the Blue Water Bridge leaving the Ontario side.


This sign explaining metric conversion was taken on the 401 east of Windsor, ON.

[formulanone]

September 21st: Post road sign photos that contain both imperial and metric units.

A few of these popped up along CR 850 near Estero, Florida:


I-75 north of...


Maine has some metric distances on I-95:

[US71]

September 21st: Post road sign photos that contain both imperial and metric units.

US 53 south of International Falls, MN

[Truvelo]

September 21st: Post road sign photos that contain both imperial and metric units.

[empirestate]

September 20: Shields with large numbers in them (In font size)

How do you define large? Looking through my photos I see several where the numbers fill the available space. It doesn't seem particularly rare.

The challenges aren't really supposed to be rare, consider this a free pass.

Well, we shouldn't really need any free passes–if someone's got a photo they're really dying to post, there are a number of dates still available where no Challenge has been posted yet. They can always use one of those instead of just posting a deliberately easy Challenge.

That being said, I think the big numbers idea could be a perfectly serviceable Challenge. We just maybe needed a little more particularization: numerals that are too big for the specifications, perhaps, or just so big that they barely fit inside the shield, rather than simply happening to be fairly large.

Also keep in mind this isn't necessarily a "take it yourself" Challenge, so finding things that might make people have to look for pictures outside their own collections are perfectly valid.

[Jim]

September 21st: Post road sign photos that contain both imperial and metric units.

Here's one in Hillsborough, New Hampshire.  June 24, 2012.