Daily Picture Challenge!

[MNHighwayMan]

November 3, 2017: A picture of a sign you own. (new, used, costom, standard, street blade, or diamond sign, if it's yours, post it!

The trouble I'm having with this challenge is not with the challenge itself, but rather deciding what to post. So, I'll just post this picture of the three (out of four, just need Idaho now) states for which I have shields from the MSR 200. (And before anyone says anything, yes I screwed up measuring the spacing for the Montana shield, don't mention it. )

[paulthemapguy]

^ I love that you're collecting all the 200's.  My dream is to rename the western US2 as "US0" and then we can make the SR-200's into US200.  If I were to go to North Dakota, most of the state highway markers will still be the bust of the native American, right?

I can't contribute to today's challenge, so this is just a text post.  I just live in an apartment, and I don't feel like I live in a place where I can appropriately store any sign panels.  That's one reason I haven't acquired any physical signs.  Plus, once I start collecting something, I commit fully and never stop until I get some kind of completion.  This means that if I start a collection of physical signs, my wallet will quickly be drained of all its money 

[US71]

^ I love that you're collecting all the 200's.  My dream is to rename the western US2 as "US0" and then we can make the SR-200's into US200.  If I were to go to North Dakota, most of the state highway markers will still be the bust of the native American, right?

I can't contribute to today's challenge, so this is just a text post.  I just live in an apartment, and I don't feel like I live in a place where I can appropriately store any sign panels.  That's one reason I haven't acquired any physical signs.  Plus, once I start collecting something, I commit fully and never stop until I get some kind of completion.  This means that if I start a collection of physical signs, my wallet will quickly be drained of all its money 

A small storage unit costs maybe $50/ month, depending on size. You can also use it to store stuff that may be cluttering  your apartment.

[adventurernumber1]

Pardon me as well for not having a picture to contribute for today's challenge, but I must say that it is incredibly cool that you actually yourself have some shields of that Multi-State Route 200. I do hope that you are able to collect the Idaho one as well!! That really is so awesome, and thank you very much for sharing!

   

[MNHighwayMan]

^ I love that you're collecting all the 200's. If I were to go to North Dakota, most of the state highway markers will still be the bust of the native American, right?

Yeah, ever since I fell in love with MSR 200 concept (though I've only clinched the part east of I-29–I should really plan a trip to clinch the whole thing someday) I decided I needed to have one shield from each of the four states (a MT-200S shield would be sweet, too.) They're the only exceptions to what is otherwise purely a collection of Minnesota highway markers.

As far as whether or not ND still has a lot of Indian head route markers, I have no idea–someone else can probably comment on that. I was last in ND in 2011, which was before the switch to the bland garbage route marker (and sadly, a time before I considered road photography all that important.)

Pardon me as well for not having a picture to contribute for today's challenge, but I must say that it is incredibly cool that you actually yourself have some shields of that Multi-State Route 200. I do hope that you are able to collect the Idaho one as well!! That really is so awesome, and thank you very much for sharing!

Sadly, I figure Idaho is actually going to be the most difficult one to acquire, given that it's the shortest (only 33 miles!) constituent of the four-state-long route.

[AsphaltPlanet]

November 4, 2017: Post of a photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic:

Stillwater Bridge:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/WI/WI/64/Stillwater_24x16.jpg

401 Extension in Windsor:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_401_images/HGP/2014/06-Jun/401_cl_4_east_Jun14_24x16.jpg

Hwy 404 extension north of Toronto:

http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/ON/hwy_404-406_images/404_cl_64-2_north_Apr14_24x16.jpg

[MNHighwayMan]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

I too will post a picture near Stillwater. Taken at the dedication ceremony on August 2nd.

[dgolub]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

Future US 219 in West Virginia, dead-ending at the end of an overpass:

[US71]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

Mira, LA, Future I-49 at Parish Rd 16


AR 279 at Future I-49 near Hiwasse. AR

[csw]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

I spent a few days with a surveying crew on I-69 in Southern Indiana in the summer of 2015. Here's a photo looking east (northbound) near the current SR 45 exit.



GSV in the area actually has a really neat perspective on the construction. https://goo.gl/maps/3MuKpeTtbxL2 and https://goo.gl/maps/GCtsibrA71B2

[formulanone]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

This 4-lane section of US 411 near Gadsden, Alabama wasn't open to traffic in 2013:

[paulthemapguy]

LAST MINUTE CHALLENGE

November 5, 2017:  Places or streets named after hoofed animals.


IMG_1374 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[dgolub]

November 5, 2017:  Places or streets named after hoofed animals.

I'm going to vote neigh on this challenge.  Connecticut Turnpike (I-95) northbound at Horse Hill Road (CT 145):

[US71]

November 5, 2017:  Places or streets named after hoofed animals.

Best I've got: Horseshoe bend near Rogers, AR

[empirestate]

November 5, 2017:  Places or streets named after hoofed animals.

I'm going to vote neigh on this challenge.  Connecticut Turnpike (I-95) northbound at Horse Hill Road (CT 145):

November 5, 2017:  Places or streets named after hoofed animals.

Best I've got: Horseshoe bend near Rogers, AR

Too late, guys...he did say "last minute"!

[adventurernumber1]

LAST MINUTE CHALLENGE

November 5, 2017:  Places or streets named after hoofed animals.

Good, quick thinking! 

When I was looking at this thread yesterday evening, I did notice that, at that moment, November 5th did not have itself a challenge yet. I didn't have the time and quick thinking to come up with a challenge myself for that day before it ended (by the time I noticed that), so I applaud you for taking on the responsibility. 

[US71]

Challenge for November 6, 2017 One road, many names




At the Arkansas-Missouri State Line:

Carroll County (Arkansas) Rd 242
Farm Road 2300 Barry County, MO
Lake Rd P-3 (Table Rock Lake)

[JasonOfORoads]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

Phase 1 of the Newberg-Dundee Bypass, near Dundee, OR on September 23, 2017

[hotdogPi]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

Phase 1 of the Newberg-Dundee Bypass, near Dundee, OR on September 23, 2017

We're going backwards in time?

[JasonOfORoads]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

Phase 1 of the Newberg-Dundee Bypass, near Dundee, OR on September 23, 2017

We're going backwards in time?

I'm blaming it on Daylight Savings Time ending.

[US71]

November 4, 2017: A photo of a road taken during construction before it had opened to traffic.

Phase 1 of the Newberg-Dundee Bypass, near Dundee, OR on September 23, 2017

We're going backwards in time?

I'm blaming it on Daylight Savings Time ending.

wibbly wobbly, timey wimey

[formulanone]

LAST MINUTE CHALLENGE

November 5, 2017:  Places or streets named after hoofed animals.

Good, quick thinking! 

When I was looking at this thread yesterday evening, I did notice that, at that moment, November 5th did not have itself a challenge yet. I didn't have the time and quick thinking to come up with a challenge myself for that day before it ended (by the time I noticed that), so I applaud you for taking on the responsibility. 

Technically, a challenge stays open until someone (presumably other than the OP) posts a response:

However, a Challenge is not closed if there are no pictures submitted that satisfy it, but we still move on to the next day's Challenge.

So dgolub was okay to post.

And then things went backwards...

[dgolub]

November 8, 2017: Post pictures of routes with letter suffixes other than A, B, or a compass direction.

Upstate New York has a ton of these.

[US71]

November 8, 2017: Post pictures of routes with letter suffixes other than A, B, or a compass direction.

62 Spur Pyatt, AR

[PHLBOS]

*Post Deleted*

It's 62 Spur, not 62 South.

Such hit me after I made the post; I've since deleted such.  Brain freeze on my end.  Carry on.