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Started by empirestate, January 02, 2017, 01:18:44 PM

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paulthemapguy

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on February 05, 2019, 09:38:29 AM
February, 5 2019: signs leading to places that are now closed/gone.

Quote from: chays on February 05, 2019, 04:49:51 PM
Quote from: kphoger on February 05, 2019, 04:42:38 PM
Six Flags Great America is now closed.
Since when?

Since it's winter!

This weigh station is closed.


MT-028-200SJ by Paul Drives, on Flickr

Avatar is the last interesting highway I clinched.
My website! http://www.paulacrossamerica.com Now featuring all of Ohio!
My USA Shield Gallery https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHwJRZk
TM Clinches https://bit.ly/2UwRs4O

National collection status: 384/425. Only 41 route markers remain!


kphoger

Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 05, 2019, 04:53:59 PM

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on February 05, 2019, 09:38:29 AM
February, 5 2019: signs leading to places that are now closed/gone.

Quote from: chays on February 05, 2019, 04:49:51 PM

Quote from: kphoger on February 05, 2019, 04:42:38 PM
Six Flags Great America is now closed.

Since when?

Since it's winter!

Precisely.  It doesn't re-open until April.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

US 89

QuoteFebruary, 5 2019: signs leading to places that are now closed/gone.

With that in mind, here's a sign for Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington:



epzik8

Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 05, 2019, 04:53:59 PM
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on February 05, 2019, 09:38:29 AM
February, 5 2019: signs leading to places that are now closed/gone.

Quote from: chays on February 05, 2019, 04:49:51 PM
Quote from: kphoger on February 05, 2019, 04:42:38 PM
Six Flags Great America is now closed.
Since when?

Since it's winter!

This weigh station is closed.


MT-028-200SJ by Paul Drives, on Flickr

I thought that was the one outside of Washington, DC. That's just Six Flags America, not Great America. My bad!
From the land of red, white, yellow and black.
____________________________

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US71

QuoteFebruary, 5 2019: signs leading to places that are now closed/gone.


Near Arlington, MO
Despite the Road Closed sign, people still try to use the road as a shortcut because the GPS says the road is open, but it isn't: the bridge was abandoned by the county
Like Alice I Try To Believe Three Impossible Things Before Breakfast

chays

Quote from: kphoger on February 05, 2019, 04:58:02 PM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 05, 2019, 04:53:59 PM

Quote from: Roadgeekteen on February 05, 2019, 09:38:29 AM
February, 5 2019: signs leading to places that are now closed/gone.

Quote from: chays on February 05, 2019, 04:49:51 PM

Quote from: kphoger on February 05, 2019, 04:42:38 PM
Six Flags Great America is now closed.

Since when?

Since it's winter!

Precisely.  It doesn't re-open until April.
Here in Florida, you don't think about things closing for the winter.  Just the occasional hurricane.

csw

#4606
QuoteFebruary 6, 2019: 3 concurrent US routes.

US 52, US 61, and US 151 in Dubuque, IA:


US 12, US 20, and US 41 from the Indiana Toll Road near the IL state line:


US 61, US 67, and US 50 in St Louis County:

Eth

QuoteFebruary 6, 2019: 3 concurrent US routes.

US 23/29/78 just east of Atlanta (go a little farther west and you'll pick up US 278, too!):



US 11/278/431 in Gadsden, AL:


paulthemapguy

Quote from: csw on February 06, 2019, 03:17:55 PM
February 6, 2019: 3 concurrent US routes.

Here's a picture I took just 4 days ago!


IL-US45-US34NR by Paul Drives, on Flickr

A photo I took outside my hotel before leaving Chattanooga a week and a half ago:


TN-US41-I-24NR by Paul Drives, on Flickr

The nonsensical triplex of Beaumont, TX:


IMG_0435 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

Avatar is the last interesting highway I clinched.
My website! http://www.paulacrossamerica.com Now featuring all of Ohio!
My USA Shield Gallery https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHwJRZk
TM Clinches https://bit.ly/2UwRs4O

National collection status: 384/425. Only 41 route markers remain!

US 89

US 67/84/377 in Brownwood, TX:



US 67/84/283 south of Abilene:



This is US 19/29/41 in Atlanta, but they've elected to put up GA 3 instead of US 41. Hmm...



Also, you can take a peek at my avatar for another one.  :P

formulanone

QuoteFebruary 6, 2019: 3 concurrent US routes.

Orlando, Florida on I-4:


Pine Bluff, Arkansas on AR 190:


Ripley, Ohio:

csw

QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.

I-99 in Corning, NY:


IL-99 in Mt Sterling:

oscar

QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.

HI 99:



US 99 (remnant or error marker on OR 99 near Medford OR):

my Hot Springs and Highways pages, with links to my roads sites:
http://www.alaskaroads.com/home.html

US71

QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.


OK 99

Like Alice I Try To Believe Three Impossible Things Before Breakfast

US71

Interesting choice: it's not only the 9th day of the month but the birthday of the 9th President, William Henry Harrison. ;)
Like Alice I Try To Believe Three Impossible Things Before Breakfast

paulthemapguy

Quote from: csw on February 09, 2019, 10:00:07 AM
QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.

I'm gonna say this challenge overlaps with the 1-2-3 challenges, in which case it's already been done in those threads.  But what the hell.

Illinois 99


IL-099-107N by Paul Drives, on Flickr

California 99


CA-099GF by Paul Drives, on Flickr
Avatar is the last interesting highway I clinched.
My website! http://www.paulacrossamerica.com Now featuring all of Ohio!
My USA Shield Gallery https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHwJRZk
TM Clinches https://bit.ly/2UwRs4O

National collection status: 384/425. Only 41 route markers remain!

MNHighwayMan

QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.

MN-99 at the junction with MN-112 right outside Le Center. May 12, 2017.


ErmineNotyours


QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.

Alaska Way Viaduct US 99 shield.  Likely to disappear any day now.

Alaska Way Viaduct US 99 shield by Arthur Allen, on Flickr

Mapmikey


QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.

End of VA 99 in Pulaski, March 2008


End of NC 92, 99, and 306, in 2011

hbelkins



Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

Truvelo

QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.

WA 99 in Seattle


I-99 near State College, PA
Speed limits limit life

formulanone

Way up in the northwestern corner of Florida's Panhandle for CR 99:


Going further northwest to Vancouver for BC 99:


Somewhere in the middle, for Nebraska Route 99:



hbelkins

Quote from: Truvelo on February 09, 2019, 04:35:05 PM

I-99 near State College, PA


Bonus points for the Sheetz in the background!


Government would be tolerable if not for politicians and bureaucrats.

empirestate

Quote from: paulthemapguy on February 09, 2019, 11:19:53 AM
Quote from: csw on February 09, 2019, 10:00:07 AM
QuoteFebruary 9, 2019: Route 99s.

I'm gonna say this challenge overlaps with the 1-2-3 challenges, in which case it's already been done in those threads.  But what the hell.

What, indeed, the hell. :-) (Non-repetition of Challenges, whether in this thread or outside discussions, has actually never been a rule, so all's fair game!)

formulanone

QuoteFebruary 15, 2019: Signs denoting a part from a truck or automobile.

Wheel, Tennessee on TN 64:



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