Daily Picture Challenge!

[formulanone]

July 17, 2017: Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the Trinity bomb test. On that matter, post road related photos having to do with explosives.

Pennsylvania's Tunnel Restriction Signs: 13 diamonds in every box!

("Explosives" are on the first diamond sign at the top left.)

[AsphaltPlanet]

July 17, 2017: Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the Trinity bomb test. On that matter, post road related photos having to do with explosives.

Exposed bedrock lined with blasting caps for highway expansion project (it's hard to see in the small photo)

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_60-69_images/69_cl_159_north_Aug12_24x16.jpg

Stockpile of blast rock from after a blasting operation:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_60-69_images/69_cl_Lovering_north_24x16.jpg

[hotdogPi]

uranium city welcomes you sign over bridge by Andy Schultz, on Flickr

City in Saskatchewan.

[US71]

July 17, 2017: Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the Trinity bomb test. On that matter, post road related photos having to do with explosives.

Blowing up the hillside for Future I-49 at Bella Vista


NB US 71 approaching I-49 near Pineville, MO


SB 71 near Pineville

[Mergingtraffic]

No Hazmats...so you don't have an explosion.

[Jim]

July 17, 2017: Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the Trinity bomb test. On that matter, post road related photos having to do with explosives.

Look out for avalanche control explosions on US 6 at the top of Loveland Pass.  April 13, 2002.

[TravelingBethelite]

July 17, 2017: Yesterday was the 72nd anniversary of the Trinity bomb test. On that matter, post road related photos having to do with explosives.

I know it's a bit of a stretch, but 'hazardous cargo' includes explosives...

[empirestate]

July 18, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that just make you scratch your head in confusion. How can it possibly be enforced? Who would it even apply to? What even is this?

Here's an example, courtesy of GSV:
https://goo.gl/maps/TvJiLhD41hB2


This sign faces traffic at the end of a very narrow back road with steep hills and sharp curves–the kind where they have to post convex mirrors to see around the curves since the road is less than two car-widths in some spots. There are few properties along the road, and a lot of conserved wooded area. The intersecting road on the far end is a rustic, dirt-surfaced historic road that serves little to no purpose for any commercial traffic.

In short, there's no conceivable way that any tractor-trailer would ever be facing this sign–they'd have gotten wedged in a curve long before they made it this far, and there's no intervening place they could have entered from. And even if a tractor-trailer were miraculously teleported to this location, what on earth would they be expected to do about it?? They're not permitted on the intersecting road ahead (which is actually what this sign and the weight limit sign in the background refer to), and they can't physically traverse the road behind.

[formulanone]

July 18, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that just make you scratch your head in confusion. How can it possibly be enforced? Who would it even apply to? What even is this?

Unlawful to track mud on highway sign in Bunkie, Louisiana.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9505336,-92.2726226,3a,15.9y,130.37h,84.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3NwlNb_c0xpxxqtJxpjxog!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

(I tried to get a shot of this sign, but both came out very blurry...lens stopped auto-focusing. So, GSV.)

How much mud is too much mud? And what if it floods? How could this be prevented?

[jbnv]

Unlawful to track mud on highway sign in Bunkie, Louisiana.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9505336,-92.2726226,3a,15.9y,130.37h,84.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3NwlNb_c0xpxxqtJxpjxog!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

(I tried to get a shot of this sign, but both came out very blurry...lens stopped auto-focusing. So, GSV.)

How much mud is too much mud? And what if it floods? How could this be prevented?

I'm more intrigued that this sign is posted right after the intersection with I-49, the traffic from which isn't going to bring much mud onto the road. Would make more sense at the junction with US 71 to the east, which is actually in the town of Bunkie.

At any rate, looking down the road (pan to the left away from the sign and the C-store in the background), you see that this is a rather lonely road in the middle of farmland. The highway is used by people going to the Indian casino in Marksville. My theory is that someone complained to the parish government after getting mud on their vehicle while traveling this road, hence the sign.

[Jim]

July 18, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that just make you scratch your head in confusion. How can it possibly be enforced? Who would it even apply to? What even is this?

I'll offer this one.  Did Arkansas have a problem with people holding parades on their interstates that caused them to outlaw them speficially?  Taken July 23, 2005.

[dgolub]

July 18, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that just make you scratch your head in confusion. How can it possibly be enforced? Who would it even apply to? What even is this?

I'll offer this one.  Did Arkansas have a problem with people holding parades on their interstates that caused them to outlaw them speficially?  Taken July 23, 2005.

There are some signs like that in New York as well.

[paulthemapguy]

July 18, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that just make you scratch your head in confusion. How can it possibly be enforced? Who would it even apply to? What even is this?

This should REALLY make you scratch your head.  Took this today at the New Lenox, IL post office.


2017-07-18_01-50-45 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

WHY IS THIS SIGN EVEN HERE? WHY IS IT FACING BACKWARDS TOWARD A PARKING STALL

[wanderer2575]

July 18, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that just make you scratch your head in confusion. How can it possibly be enforced? Who would it even apply to? What even is this?

The top sign.  My only guess is that they're trying to say "No Loitering."

[wanderer2575]

July 18, 2017
Challenge: Post signs that just make you scratch your head in confusion. How can it possibly be enforced? Who would it even apply to? What even is this?

I'll offer this one.  Did Arkansas have a problem with people holding parades on their interstates that caused them to outlaw them speficially?  Taken July 23, 2005.

O/T but along the same lines:  I've always been amused by signs at town borders stating "zoning strictly enforced."  Are they afraid someone's going to stop on the way through town to erect a 10-story office building in the middle of Farmer Bob's beanfield?

[hotdogPi]

July 19, 2017: Dedicated U-turns.

U-turn arrow on NH 125 in Plaistow, NH by <name removed>, on Flickr

This one has its own U-turn arrow. (As stated in the Flickr description, it turned green within one second of this photo being taken.)

Your example does not have to have a traffic light. The photo can also be of the U-turn sign instead of the intersection itself, if you want. However, it must be available to the public (so "authorized vehicles only" doesn't count).

[hbelkins]

Someone with a better photo than I got of the U-turn arrows we saw at the Birmingham meet last fall needs to post them.

[paulthemapguy]

July 19, 2017: Dedicated U-turns.

US271 with a u-turn placard?


077 US271 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[dgolub]

July 19, 2017: Dedicated U-turns.

Ocean Parkway eastbound right before the traffic circle at the Wantagh Parkway:

[csw]

I think I may have posted this already, but the new-ish US 231 bypass around Dale, IN:

[paulthemapguy]

I know I already posted once today, but I JUST found this new signal installed along US30 eastbound in Plainfield.  This is the second day in a row I took a photo that fit the daily challenge ON THAT DAY.  CRAZY.  This is the ONLY U-turn signal I have ever seen installed for IDOT.


20170719_194029 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[empirestate]

July 20, 2017
Challenge: Post nighttime road photos containing impressive city skylines or urban scenery.

[formulanone]

July 20, 2017
Challenge: Post nighttime road photos containing impressive city skylines or urban scenery.

Downtown Baltimore:


I-10 in New Orleans:


US 1 and US 41 in Miami:

[Ian]

July 20, 2017
Challenge: Post nighttime road photos containing impressive city skylines or urban scenery.

I love this challenge

Boston...



Tulsa...



Los Angeles...

[US71]

Did someone miss posting today?

Challenge for 21 July 2017
In honor of the 48th anniversary of man on the moon, post something with 48 OR post a sign with moon on it.

Park Road 48 in Texas