I-376 to be Extended...Eventually

[rickmastfan67]

Highly unlikely.  If you look hard enough at the Exit #51 BL I-376 signs, you can clearly see a Greenout that covers the entire width of the sign.

I looked at those images and I still can't see it.  But, I'm glad you can.  Thanks for the information.

Guess it kinda helps that I have a LCD monitor and can see the color difference.

I have an LCD monitor but it's using VGA (analog) input as I couldn't get it to work with DVI!   

That stinks.   I was lucky to get the DVI to work on mine.  What type of Video card do you have in your system?  I have a ATI 4850 here.

[PAHighways]

PennDOT Announces Roadwork on SR 60 in Mercer County

[mightyace]

That stinks.   I was lucky to get the DVI to work on mine.  What type of Video card do you have in your system?  I have a ATI 4850 here.

This is my work system and it has an ATI Radeon 9250 in here and is a Dell system connecting to a Dell monitor.  But, I think the issue is that I'm running Windows Server 2003 here and there's no driver for the card for this OS, so I had to use the XP driver.  Or, in other words, there's not much I can do to fix that as I don't control my hardware or OS here.

[Mr_Northside]

I'm just hoping if they are temporary band-aids, that the new signs have no white box around the BL I-376 shields.

I don't think I'd hold out too much hope for that... temporary or not.

[rickmastfan67]

I'm just hoping if they are temporary band-aids, that the new signs have no white box around the BL I-376 shields.

I don't think I'd hold out too much hope for that... temporary or not.

I can still hope.

[PAHighways]

I-376 Re-designation Sign Installation Continues Next Week in Allegheny County

[rickmastfan67]

I-376 Re-designation Sign Installation Continues Next Week in Allegheny County

I can confirm that they have been removing the Button Copy around I-579.  I was in Downtown Pittsburgh a few weeks ago and they had already changed some of the Button Copy to Clearview around Mellon Arena.

[treichard]

PennDOT Announces Roadwork on SR 60 in Mercer County

Possibly the newest state route PA 760 will finally show up in signs.

It's now in a few maps:
Mercer County
http://ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/GHS/Roadnames/mercer_GHSN.PDF
(PennDOT updated their county maps last week. April 2010 replaces the Oct. 2009 version.)

Shenango Township
http://ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Township/Mercer/43224.pdf

(Delete the "http://" that the forum adds to the URLs.)  (I tried, to no avail - SMA)

[rickmastfan67]

Just an update on the Button Copy signage in Downtown Pittsburgh.

BUTTON COPY IS DEAD (well, almost completely)



There is just one sign remaining around the Mellon Arena that is Button Copy.  I'll have a blog post with pictures documenting this later.  Documented all this when I was Downtown for Game #2 of the Pens/Sens series.

[PAHighways]

Outbound Parkway West Lane Closures Monday and Tuesday Nights

Sign work in conjunction with the change from 60 to 376 will involve the areas near Exit 50 (IBL-376) and Exit 56 (McLaren Road).

[J N Winkler]

(Delete the "http://" that the forum adds to the URLs.)  (I tried, to no avail - SMA)

This problem has surfaced here before (SMF doesn't implement non-HTTP URLs).  Just deleting the "http://" won't work if the link has been copied, since SMF also deletes the colon between "ftp" and the double slash in the URL.  It is necessary to highlight the correct part of the displayed (butchered) URL with the cursor and then copy it.

[PAHighways]

Re-designation Sign Installation Continues Tonight in Southwest Allegheny County

[rickmastfan67]

Re-designation Sign Installation Continues Tonight in Southwest Allegheny County

Wait a sec.......  I-576??????

PennDOT District 11 is advising motorists intermittent, short-term single lane closures will occur on the Parkway West (I-376), Business 376, and I-576 (PA Turnpike) on Wednesday and Thursday nights, April 21-22, in Allegheny County, weather permitting.

Does that mean that the FHWA signed off on upgrading PA Turnpike 576 to I-576, or did PennDOT just screw up on the PR?

[PAHighways]

Does that mean that the FHWA signed off on upgrading PA Turnpike 576 to I-576, or did PennDOT just screw up on the PR?

I would guess the latter.

[treichard]

(Taken July 30th, 2009)

I-576 is taking over the lost Interstate mileage from PA 76.

(not true, of course)

Surely a mistake.  But now that PA 576 connects to an Interstate and has a second NHS terminus, could the completed part gain Interstate status as early as the second-next AASHTO meeting (Fall 2010)?  Five or so years ago, possibly before the I-376 extension was planned, the PTC told me they expected PA 576 to become I-576 when it was wholly completed from PA 60 to I-376 Monroeville.

(Or do PTC emails concerning tolled Interstates go in the FHWA spam folder now?)

[Mr_Northside]

I figured the PTC was waiting till it was done to make the switch (assuming they still wanted to).
Of course, there is the very real possibility that current 576 will be all there ever is to it.  (Though even if the rest of the Mon-Fayette / Southern beltway gets canceled due to lack of money, I personally think at least getting 576 continued to I-79 should be pursued... but that's getting off-topic).

Also, I can vouch that as of yesterday, the PA TPK-76 sign is still present in Churchill.

[PAHighways]

I too heard the PTC expected the I-576 designation to be applied to the Southern Beltway, but I don't expect it to happen much like I didn't expect I-80 to get tolled.

[PAHighways]

I-376 Re-designation Sign Installation Continues Next Week in Allegheny County

[rickmastfan67]

I-376 Re-designation Sign Installation Continues Next Week in Allegheny County

Sounds like they are going to be finally replacing the really big BGS's on I-279 in this set of work for the I-279/I-579 split so they can include "TO I-376" shields.

[PAHighways]

Rolling Closures for Sign Installation on Interstate 80 and SR 60 in Mercer County

[PAHighways]

I-376 Re-designation Sign Installation Continues this week in Allegheny County

[PAHighways]

A fan of Pennsylvania Highways from the New Castle area has posted pictures of the signage changes that have taken place at the I-80/I-376/PA 760 cloverleaf as well as along the PA 760 alignment on its Facebook page.

[Mr_Northside]

Sweet.

[Truvelo]

Did anyone save the original button copy signs near New Castle or have they been sent to China to be melted down into something new?

[PAHighways]

If anything, they'll probably only go as far as Meadville to finish the PennDOT Sign Garden.