Daily Picture Challenge!

[MNHighwayMan]

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

Ooh, this will be easy...

Not decoratively, mind you–signs actually being used as designed, only inside of buildings.

...oh. Never mind.

[adventurernumber1]

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

Ooh, this will be easy...

Not decoratively, mind you–signs actually being used as designed, only inside of buildings.

...oh. Never mind.

I had the exact same experience reading this.   

However, it will be an interesting challenge nonetheless. 

[ilpt4u]

No pictures, but I feel like Airports should be a softball here: Isn't the "Do Not Enter" sign pretty commonly used at Secured Area/Airside exits to Unsecured Area/Landside?

[paulthemapguy]

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

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Here's a sign being used as design, inside a building.
Guide sign made at the IDOT District 3 sign shop.  This is inside District 3 headquarters in Ottawa.


20170324_114221 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[MNHighwayMan]

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

Here's a sign being used as design, inside a building.
Guide sign made at the IDOT District 3 sign shop.  This is inside District 3 headquarters in Ottawa.


20170324_114221 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

I know I've seen this picture before... did we do a similar challenge at some point earlier in the year? Or was it posted in another thread? I love it though, that's pretty cool to do stuff like that. Would be better though if it'd been green and white.

[paulthemapguy]

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

Here's a sign being used as design, inside a building.
Guide sign made at the IDOT District 3 sign shop.  This is inside District 3 headquarters in Ottawa.

I know I've seen this picture before... did we do a similar challenge at some point earlier in the year? Or was it posted in another thread? I love it though, that's pretty cool to do stuff like that. Would be better though if it'd been green and white.

I know I posted it somewhere on this site...I did a search in this thread and found nothing.  If you look around the grounds at road districts, you'll typically see at least a couple roadway-style signs made in the sign shop to guide employees and visitors around.  Putting them inside the buildings is far less common though!  Occasionally I'll end up at an IDOT district office or a public works office for a class I need to maintain my license as a professional engineer, and I'll find some roadway style signs used to guide visitors like myself.

[formulanone]

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

Closest I can do is post this from the Knoxville airport...but it's more "roadgeek art". You do have to walk on either side of it, though!

[kphoger]

I just hosted a picture to imgur, but then I realized everyone has been posting pictures to a challenge from three weeks ago...   

That's okay, it's the monthly roundup

That is correct. No need to worry. 

At the end of every month, all challenges ever since the day that the last recap list was posted (usually 2 or 3 days before a month ends) are re-opened for an end-of-the-month ultimate catch-up challenge. So in these few days at the end of every month, you can post contributions for challenges from any day in that range, such as the 1st, 4th, 12th, 19th, 23rd, etc. So if the picture you uploaded was an entry to one of the challenges in that range, then your uploading should not have been to no avail!   

Well, in that case!

October 8, 2017:  Road photos taken from above, looking down.

Kellogg (US 54/400) in Wichita near my house

[kphoger]

And now for the most recent challenge...

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

Not decoratively, mind you–signs actually being used as designed, only inside of buildings.

Warehouses are a prime candidate for this challenge.  After a quick Google search, I found this on a Canadian manufacturers' association website.

[empirestate]

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

Ooh, this will be easy...

Not decoratively, mind you–signs actually being used as designed, only inside of buildings.

...oh. Never mind.

I had the exact same experience reading this.   

However, it will be an interesting challenge nonetheless. 

Actually, this was inspired by a regular daily occurrence for me: there are STOP signs deployed inside Grand Central Terminal, some complete with flashing LED borders, for use by those little buggies that employees drive around in. Of course, I haven't actually snapped a photo of them yet. Maybe I can get one when I go into the city later today; otherwise, I'll have to catch up at the next recap. :-)

[chays]

October 31 - It's Halloween.  Post your scariest road-related pic

This is not mine, as I don't take pictures of roads.  But it is pretty scary!

[hbelkins]

October 31 - It's Halloween.  Post your scariest road-related pic

This doesn't scare me, but it scares a lot of people. 

2017 WV route-clinching trip Day 4 - 018 by H.B. Elkins, on Flickr

[adventurernumber1]

October 21st, 2017: Post a photo of the highest exit number in your collection.

The highest exit number in my collection is actually in my neck of the woods. 

That would be Interstate 75's highest exit number in the state of Georgia (picture taken on I-75 Northbound):

10/22 ==> post a picture of a traffic barrel.

My contribution to this challenge is from off of Interstate 75 Southbound in Dalton, Georgia (traffic barrels are on the right in the picture):

10/24 ==> post a picture of exit 1.

My contribution to this challenge is from off of Tennessee Highway 153 Southbound in Chattanooga, TN:





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[formulanone]

October 21st, 2017: Post a photo of the highest exit number in your collection.

I-10's eastern border, headed west:

October 20, 2017:  Post a photo you took in 2017 of a state, provincial, or national welcome sign where a road meets a political boundary.

I couldn't get a good shot of this on eastbound I-20 for years, so there's something to be said for construction-throttled speed limits...

October 14, 2017: Any road picture that exemplifies a state stereotype.

Dallas, step right up...it just isn't right without the hat.

[kphoger]

Hey, thanks for doing these monthly recaps.  It allows me to post my favorite picture from my small collection.

October 12: post a pic of a broken/vandalized sign.

[kphoger]

October 31 - It's Halloween.  Post your scariest road-related pic

October 31st Challenge
Just for fun, Halloween related signs

Do you guys need to fight this one out?

[MNHighwayMan]

October 31 - It's Halloween.  Post your scariest road-related pic

October 31st Challenge
Just for fun, Halloween related signs

Do you guys need to fight this one out?

IMO they seem like the same challenge, just worded differently.

[US71]

October 31 - It's Halloween.  Post your scariest road-related pic

October 31st Challenge
Just for fun, Halloween related signs

Do you guys need to fight this one out?

I did not see his post when I posted mine, so I will delete my challenge

[kphoger]

October 31 - It's Halloween.  Post your scariest road-related pic

October 31st Challenge
Just for fun, Halloween related signs

Do you guys need to fight this one out?

I did not see his post when I posted mine, so I will delete my challenge

Too late now.  It lives on in quote string infamy.

[jflick99]

October 21st, 2017: Post a photo of the highest exit number in your collection.

I-70 Exit 419 in Kansas City, Kansas.

[dgolub]

October 31st Challenge
Just for fun, Halloween related signs

This picture was actually taken on Halloween two years ago.  When we passed through again later after dark, we did manage to run into some witches.

[adventurernumber1]

October 5th, 2017: Post road photos that will make you look twice!

My contribution to this challenge is from off of the ramp from I-285 Eastbound to I-85 Northbound (on the northeastern stack interchange). This picture of mine was taken on a very recent trip to Athens, Georgia, and when I was reviewing all the nice photos that I had been able to snap, I remember seeing this one and thinking "Wow, someone who doesn't know what that is will have to do a double-take!" 

The reason that this photo does look like this is because my father is driving in the driver's seat on the front left (who's hands you can see), and I am sitting in the back right seat taking all of the road photos on my phone. From this angle, it does look quite a bit like we are about to drive right off of the interchange!! 

October 16, 2017: Post photos of runaway truck ramps.

I have 2 contributions to this challenge, both of which are in the state of Tennessee.


My first contribution to this challenge is from off of Interstate 24 Eastbound, just southeast of Monteagle, TN, where it goes down the Cumberland Plateau. This picture is by courtesy of Google Maps Street View:




My second contribution to this challenge is from off of Interstate 26 Westbound in the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern TN, and I think that this is really close to the NC border. This picture is by courtesy of Google Maps Street View:

[adventurernumber1]

October 18: Post an exit direction sign (that is, the last sign before a freeway exit) that uses an arrow other than a typical diagonal arrow or a down arrow. So fair game are loop arrows, the weird NJ Turnpike arrows, right arrows, et al.

My contribution to this challenge is from off of Interstate 75 Northbound in far southern Georgia (Valdosta, specifically) at the interchange with US 84/US 221 (EXIT 16). This picture is by courtesy of Google Maps Street View:



And since I have space left in this post (regarding the 3-pictures-per-post rule in this thread), I will treat you all with a close-up picture of this BGS: 





(NOTE: I APOLOGIZE FOR THE CRAPPY QUALITY OF THE PICTURES IN THESE LAST TWO POSTS OF MINE - I AM CURRENTLY UNABLE TO UPLOAD RAW, NEW PHOTOS FROM MY PHONE AND SUCH FOR THE TIME BEING - I AM TRYING TO GET THIS FIXED ASAP)

[Michael]

October 30, 2017
Challenge: Post photos of standard road or traffic signs deployed indoors.

I have two "almost" pictures for this challenge.

I took this picture in 2013 at Darien Lake while walking from the theme park to the amphitheater:

Obviously this isn't indoors, but it is along the walking path and is intended for pedestrians.

I got a kick out of this sign I saw in the Broome County Transit Center in 2013, so I took a picture of it:


Lastly, my local Aldi has gates at the checkout for when a lane is closed, and they have MUTCD standard "Do Not Enter" signs on them, but at least one is in Helvetica (I think).  I can't find any pictures of one online.

[7/8]

November 1, 2017: Today is All Saints' Day. Post photos of signs with the word "saint".

I'll upload my own examples this evening.