Why is there a US-38 shield on the Regional Mod tag?

[thspfc]

Random question.

[J N Winkler]

This answer doesn't really go to motivation for design of the tag itself, but there are a couple of observations that seem relevant:

*  US 38 was a regional (Nebraska-Colorado) route later subsumed into US 6.

*  A longstanding MUTCD heirloom, dating from at least the 1960's, is an illustration of a post-interchange distance sign that references US 38 in the top line, initially as text and now as a shield:  [US 38] JCT 5, Greenville 40, St Louis 125 in the current edition.

[Scott5114]

I think the main motivation was just to put an unused number in it. It could have easily been 47.

[webny99]

This actually never occurred to me until you pointed it out, but I'm glad an even number was chosen.

[kphoger]

So why is there a not-unused number on the Administrator tag?   

[hotdogPi]

So why is there a not-unused number on the Administrator tag?   

It's the colored shield that's no longer used, not the number.

[Alps]

So how come I'm stuck with US 6?

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

So how come I'm stuck with US 6?

You were 6 years old when you became a Moderator?

[US 89]

So how come I'm stuck with US 6?

Because you used to be US 38?

[corco]

It looks like the original suggestion was, as Winkler speculated above:

I would have a different number for the two other moderators.  maybe global moderator can be US 6 (a fairly long-reaching highway) and regional moderator be US 38 (a short, regional highway with a tie-in to US 6)

from the long-departed agentsteel53.

[thspfc]

So how come I'm stuck with US 6?

US-6 is not a bad one to be stuck with. I love the way that 6 looks on a US shield.

[I-55]

So how come I'm stuck with US 6?

US-6 is not a bad one to be stuck with. I love the way that 6 looks on a US shield.

Not to mention that it's named "Grand Army of the Republic Highway" for its full length. Not many cross country roads can say they carry a name through multiple states.

[US 89]

So how come I'm stuck with US 6?

US-6 is not a bad one to be stuck with. I love the way that 6 looks on a US shield.

Not to mention that it's named "Grand Army of the Republic Highway" for its full length. Not many cross country roads can say they carry a name through multiple states.

Of course, most states barely sign that (if at all). Utah has one small sign like this at each state line:

[Max Rockatansky]

So how come I'm stuck with US 6?

US-6 is not a bad one to be stuck with. I love the way that 6 looks on a US shield.

Not to mention that it's named "Grand Army of the Republic Highway" for its full length. Not many cross country roads can say they carry a name through multiple states.

Of course, most states barely sign that (if at all). Utah has one small sign like this at each state line:

Someone has been signing it on US 6, US 395, and CA 14 in the last couple years.  It doesn't look like a Caltrans job.