Daily Picture Challenge!

[Big John]

Even with the wrong colors for a business loop.

[jflick99]

July 6, 2017: Post pictures of BOS's (Big Orange Signs).

I-435 approaching US-69 in Overland Park, KS.

[jbnv]

Even the construction signage uses Clearview???

Why wouldn't they?

[Big John]

Even the construction signage uses Clearview???

Why wouldn't they?

Clearview was never approved for dark on light contrast.

[formulanone]

Even with the wrong colors for a business loop.

Yeah, posted that in one of the Sign Error threads a few years back.

I don't have that many photos of Big Orange Signs, oddly...some states use them, but many contractors craft their own "specials", and others just green-out, conceal, spindle, fold, and mutilate the heck out existing signage.

[US 89]

Even with the wrong colors for a business loop.

Maybe that could be used for business loops that are freeways themselves, such as I-80 Business in Sacramento.

[empirestate]

These are all beautiful shots. More landscape challenges please 

Yes, that's a good reminder: although this thread is posted in Traffic Control, that's only because most of the challenge threads were there. This was never intended to be a signs-only Challenge; anything to do with roads is great!

So, with that in mind:

July 7, 2017
Challenge: Post a modern-day road scene that you feel is "timeless", like it could have been taken 50-60 years ago, in the Golden Age of highway travel.

[Eth]

July 7, 2017
Challenge: Post a modern-day road scene that you feel is "timeless", like it could have been taken 50-60 years ago, in the Golden Age of highway travel.

GA 136 just outside Talking Rock.

[US71]

July 7, 2017
Challenge: Post a modern-day road scene that you feel is "timeless", like it could have been taken 50-60 years ago, in the Golden Age of highway travel.

North of Carthage, MO

[empirestate]

Anybody got a shot of the main street in Mt. Carmel, PA? That town always seemed frozen in time to me.

[MNHighwayMan]

July 7, 2017 Challenge: Post a modern-day road scene that you feel is "timeless", like it could have been taken 50-60 years ago, in the Golden Age of highway travel.

MN-39/WI-105, from the Minnesota side, over the Oliver bridge (built in 1916) across the St. Louis River



MN-317/ND-17 bridge over the Red River of the North, from the Minnesota bank

[7/8]

July 7, 2017 Challenge: Post a modern-day road scene that you feel is "timeless", like it could have been taken 50-60 years ago, in the Golden Age of highway travel.

The West Montrose Covered Bridge in Waterloo Region, ON

[OracleUsr]

June 13: Signs with large control cities (100k and above) that are around 50+ miles away from the city.

(I-75/I-85 South in downtown Atlanta, GA) - with newest news, Macon has new city limits which gives it above 100k (about 150k) whereas before these changes it had slightly less than 100k.

June 27: Two route numbers that differ by multiples of 100 (100, 200, 300, etc).

(off I-26 East near Columbia, SC)

June 21: Photos of road maintenance or construction.

(off I-20 East at what should be Exit 183 in Georgia, just outside Augusta - this is a resurfacing project)

When did that SC one go up?  Only left-bannered signs I remember seeing in SC are the OAPL in advance of the same junction, and in Clearview.

[Mergingtraffic]

July 7, 2017 Challenge: Post a modern-day road scene that you feel is "timeless", like it could have been taken 50-60 years ago, in the Golden Age of highway travel.

Former I-170 in Baltimore.  1979 or 2017? Concrete, thin and painted broken center line.  No epoxy markings.

US-40 EB Expwy Stub.  US-40 was supposed to be I-170. Baltimore, MD. by mergingtraffic, on Flickr

[AsphaltPlanet]

July 8, 2017, Challenge: Post of a photo of a road approaching a city skyline:

Downtown Connector, Atlanta:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/GA/I/75/I75_GA_cl_251_south_SB_Sep16_24x16.jpg

Highway 403, Mississauga, Ontario:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_402-403_images/403_cl_121-2_west_24x16.jpg

I-94, St. Paul, MN:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/MN/I/94/I94_MN_dv_242-4_west_Jun17_24x16.jpg

[MNHighwayMan]

I-94, St. Paul, MN:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/MN/I/94/I94_MN_dv_242-4_west_Jun17_24x16.jpg

July 8, 2017, Challenge: Photo of a road approaching a city skyline.

I'll match you with this skyline of Minneapolis taken from the NB I-35W ramp to WB I-94.



Also, here's a picture of the Des Moines skyline, but obscured by local fog (normally you can see it without the fog). This is on NB Fleur Drive at George Flagg Parkway.



More seriously, here's a picture of the Des Moines skyline, in January, taken from the top of Monona Avenue.

[JJBers]

July 8, 2017, Challenge: Post of a photo of a road approaching a city skyline:

This is part of the Hartford skyline, from I-84...

CC 2.0 JJBers

[paulthemapguy]

July 8, 2017, Challenge: Post of a photo of a road approaching a city skyline:

Heading into Chicago along US41/Lake Shore Drive, fresh off of I-55.


IL-US41NV by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[empirestate]

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

Posting since I'm enjoying a blackout at home currently. :-) The photo should include some indication of the emergency, of course. Vehicular accidents also count, as long as they had a substantial impact on traffic (not just rubbernecking a fender-bender).



iPhone

[US71]

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

Washed out highway?

[MNHighwayMan]

You call that washed out?

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

Now this is washed out. This is MN-210 after a bad flood in 2012. (Picture isn't mine, and I'm not sure where I found it.)

[hotdogPi]

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

MA 114 at I-495. Not my photo. I believe the link below is about the flood that caused it, but there were actually two floods about a year apart; the Friendly's shown in the image had to be fixed both times.

wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Flood_of_May_2006

EDIT: Picture was accidentally left out.

[dgolub]

July 8, 2017, Challenge: Post of a photo of a road approaching a city skyline:

Long Island Expressway (I-495) westbound approaching the Midtown Tunnel into Manhattan:

[dgolub]

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

US 9W northbound approaching the Storm King Highway (NY 218), which was closed at the time due to storm damage from Hurricane Irene:

[formulanone]

July 9, 2017
Challenge: Post a road photo taken during some type of emergency (blackout, wildfire, dangerous weather, derailment, nuclear meltdown, etc.

Abandoned PA 61 near Centralia:

(maybe?)