Illuminated street name signs

[roadfro]

The Las Vegas metro area (city, unincorporated county, and cities of Henderson and Boulder City) has used illuminated street name signs for as long as I can remember...the notable stand out is North Las Vegas, which uses a typical static metal sign. The brand in Vegas has traditionally been NuArt. Henderson has recently been using a different housing for its illuminated SNSs that affixes directly to the pole above the mast arm, instead of hanging from the mast arm as is typical.

Illuminated street name signs are also fairly common in Reno-Sparks, NV. Really old signals may not have them, but they are at most signals which appear to have been installed in the last 30 years. Reno/Sparks has experimented with some LED illuminated SNSs as of late.

For all new signal installations I've seen in Nevada in the past 10+ years (except for North Las Vegas), it has been standard to see some type of illuminated street name sign for every intersection.

[1995hoo]

In Vancouver (Washington State), they're only around in the older parts of the city.  They also illuminate "LEFT TURN ONLY" signs. ....

Within the past few years, the District of Columbia has started doing that for intersections that have part-time "NO LEFT TURN" restrictions. I rather like it, makes the restriction much more obvious than it was before and, assuming the light-up sign is working correctly, it eliminates the need to read the metal sign that lists the hours when the restriction is in effect. From my observations while driving across town it seems to have helped with the tourists who are focused on their planned left turn and who therefore don't notice the metal sign lower down on the pole where the traffic light is located.

[BamaZeus]

our city has them as part of a city beautification project, mainly.  I'd post pics, but Google maps hasn't been back to town since the changeover.

This pic gives a good idea of what they look like, but they are backlit now inside of a casing.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3662/3431137982_d51c18ee4e.jpg

[tdindy88]

Indianapolis has a couple of intersections along Kentucky Avenue that has those type of signs, with Clearview font I believe. Downtown Indianapolis has one intersection (Maryland and Meridian Streets.) I'm curious why the signs were put up but they don't look too bad, I kind of hope that they put them up at least around the Downtown. Plainfield, a suburb to the west has several up along US 40 and the business park near SR 267. Fishers to the northeast of town also has an intersection with illuminated street signs to the west of Exit 5 off 116th Street. To my knowledge, that's all for Central Indiana.

[brownpelican]

There are large number of them in Baton Rouge/East Baton Rouge Parish...especially on the south side...in two different typefaces.

[bulkyorled]

I'm actually surprised as to how many places have them. I've been around the US a bit but not in these places obviously haha

NuArt seems to be a bigger one at least out west, I think GE does them too but there are several companies.

[bulkyorled]

These are in Glendale, Ive only ever seen one other city with these and I believe it was Orange but they didn't have them everywhere and theirs are blue instead of brown

[CentralCAroadgeek]

There are three types of illuminated street name signs in Salinas. I have only daytime pictures, so bear with me.

Here's the old type:

Here's a lighter-green version of the old type:

And finally, here's the new signs that are being put up (This one also in Clearview):

[Ian]

^ I like the old style way better!

[blawp]

The "old style" is very typical in all parts of California.

[xcellntbuy]

I believe every one of the pictured styles exists somewhere in Broward County, Florida, both with fluorescent tubes and a handful of LED-lit.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

The "old style" is very typical in all parts of California.

I've also noticed some in Texas.

Here's an example from Corpus Christi:

[bulkyorled]

I've actually only seen maybe 3 cities that have LED ones here. Glendale, Burbank and Anaheim but Anaheim is the only one where they replaced all (or at least most) of their old ones with the new ones. They seem to be still way too new for most cities to have.

Other cities that I know that have them are Pleasanton & Livermore up north, and possibly Dublin. I have a friend up there but they don't go into Dublin that much so its just a hunch on that.

[Sanctimoniously]

Semi on-topic question, but I guess this is the best place to ask it: How much would an LED street name sign weigh?

[Michael]

About 20 pounds according to this PDF (see page 3).

[Sanctimoniously]

About 20 pounds according to this PDF (see page 3).

Thanks!

[bulkyorled]

There are three types of illuminated street name signs in Salinas. I have only daytime pictures, so bear with me.

Here's the old type:

Here's a lighter-green version of the old type:

And finally, here's the new signs that are being put up (This one also in Clearview):

The ones on the bigger poles look little and the little pole one looks gigantic...

[hm insulators]

A couple more Phoenix-area communities that have illuminated signs: Peoria, Sun City, Surprise and I think there's some in Sun City West. They signs make sense in the "Sun Cities" as these are retirement communities.

[sp_redelectric]

In Oregon they are next to non-existant, except in Eugene, Albany and McMinnville.  A recent signal replacement project in the southern part of McMinnville on 99W, a couple signals on the north side of town, and a number of city maintained signals throughout town, got the illuminated signs.  The legend started to wear off of the signs very early and most of them have been replaced.

They are not the NuArt signs, however:

http://g.co/maps/prrwj

[bulkyorled]

I'd say you can add Quartz Hill onto the list however I visited there and they all seem to be burnt out now except one oh no!

I don't think Washington state has them either for the most part except what was mentioned. I have a friend in Port Orchard and they've never seen them.

[Scott5114]

TxDOT seems to like these...last night I saw a few of them on US 287 in Chillicothe and Quanah.

(Firefox suggests that I change "Chillicothe" to either "Helicopter" or "Chilliness".)

[bulkyorled]

Hrm. Chillicothe has "Farm to Market" roads. Strange haha never actually have seen that before.

[Desert Man]

I want to take like 5 pictures of the illuminated streetlight signs of Palm Springs area roads named after celebrities known to visit and live in the area: Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Fred Waring and Gene Autry...plus Gerald Ford drive named for the 38th US president.   (Driving in El Paseo in my '65 coup) I should take pics of El Paseo streetlight signs, like the world-famous Palm Canyon drive, and Indio Blvd. or Grapefruit Blvd. (old U.S. route 99).

[bulkyorled]

Do it! I like seeing the style other cities get. The 2 closest cities that have them near me have the standard font with no design or city seal or anything. Burbank & Glendale sure had no imagination haha oh well at least they have them i guess. Other cities did it up a bit

[Scott5114]

Hrm. Chillicothe has "Farm to Market" roads. Strange haha never actually have seen that before.

Farm to Market roads are Texas's secondary highway system.