Sine salad

[ekt8750]

Don't know if you can consider this a salad, but I'll post it.



NOT my pic. Credit goes to author:

http://selkiegrey4.blogspot.ca/2012/11/iceberg-alley-labrador.html

What's with the Whale Route sign? Do whales frequent the freeway or something?

[SignGeek101]

Don't know if you can consider this a salad, but I'll post it.

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NOT my pic. Credit goes to author:

http://selkiegrey4.blogspot.ca/2012/11/iceberg-alley-labrador.html

What's with the Whale Route sign? Do whales frequent the freeway or something?

QC 138 is near the mouth of the St. Lawrence river, which I'm guessing is salt water, so I guess it's possible that whales visit that area.

[1995hoo]

Don't know if you can consider this a salad, but I'll post it.



NOT my pic. Credit goes to author:

http://selkiegrey4.blogspot.ca/2012/11/iceberg-alley-labrador.html

What's with the Whale Route sign? Do whales frequent the freeway or something?

I highly doubt you could call a road in that area a "freeway" unless you work for WVDOT!!!

[andy3175]

The discussion of I-381 made me hungry for some Virginia sine salad (not to be confused with Virginia baked ham).

This shield assembly in particular is one that I distinctly remember seeing in Bristol when I last visited, and I thought wow, they sure wouldn't have this sort of thing in California!

[SignGeek101]

This is one of the bigger ones I've seen in Canada.



http://goo.gl/maps/8giq1

[Mapmikey]

Here is some historic sine salad.  Nothing I tried with my photo viewing program made this much easier to see.

There are 9 cutout shields:

Far right: US 29 and US 70 with a single BUSINESS banner
Center (from left to right): US 29 and US 70 with a single BYPASS banner plus a US 52 shield underneath; the 2 cutouts in the middle of this assemblage are likely TO US 64 West and TO US 64 East cutouts; the 2 to the right are US 29 and US 70 with a single BUSINESS banner
Left of the gaggle of cutouts: non-cutouts and also not white border US 29, US 70, and US 52 shields.  Above the US 29 shield is an I-85 shield.  Cannot tell if the banner says NORTH or TEMP or TEMPORARY.

This interchange was totally destroyed and rebuilt north of here.  But you can still access the ramp that is off to the right which is Brian Center Rd leaving Grimes Blvd: https://goo.gl/maps/6DQ4n



Mapmikey

[hbelkins]

I can always find some goodies when I go looking through some of my old photo pages, like this one from Virginia.

[AsphaltPlanet]

About as complicated as they get in Ontario:

[SignGeek101]

About as complicated as they get in Ontario:

Is that helvetica direction sign newer than the FWHA sign or older? I don't know why Ontario uses Helvetica for directions. I think it looks ugly.

[AsphaltPlanet]

^ Both directional tabs were probably put up at the same time.  This sign assembly wasn't that old when this photo was taken.

[ctsignguy]

About as complicated as they get in Ontario:

Let's see...if i was still with my ex-SO in Toronto, i would piss her off by looking at that assembly and make remarks about "Which way on US 6 do we want?  Interstate 401 or Interstate 403?"
Her response would be to hit my arm and tell me in a grouchy tone  "It is NOT US 6!!   We are NOT in the United States!"

[freebrickproductions]

Here's another good helping of Huntsville, AL salad:
US 231/US 431/ US 72 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

[freebrickproductions]

I sure hope y'all are hungry because I've got a lot of salad from Alabama!
Attalla:
US 431/US 278 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

US 431/US 278/US 11 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

Florence:
US 43/US 72/AL 13/AL 133 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
(^^^^That has to be one of the larger set-ups, if not largest set-up, I've seen in person)

US 43/US 72/AL 13/AL 133 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

AL 17/AL 133/AL 157 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

AL 17/AL 133/AL 157 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

[JoePCool14]

About as complicated as they get in Ontario:

Is that helvetica direction sign newer than the FWHA sign or older? I don't know why Ontario uses Helvetica for directions. I think it looks ugly.

Actually I think it'd look better if they didn't use condensed FHWA. The Helvetica here actually doesn't bother me too much.

[freebrickproductions]

Some more Alabama salad:
Town Creek:
US 72 Alt./AL 20/AL 101 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

US 72 Alt./AL 20/AL 101 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

US 72 Alt./AL 20/AL 101 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

Decatur:
US 31/US 72 Alt./AL 20 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

US 31/US 72 Alt./AL 20 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

US 72 Alt./AL 20 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

[Mergingtraffic]

Here's a child size salad:

[Brandon]

Smaller one in Bloomington, on one sign with a clearview numeral:

[Zeffy]

That entire IL 9 sign is in Clearview. Ugh...

Also, BUSN for a business route? That's a new one.

[SignGeek101]

That entire IL 9 sign is in Clearview. Ugh...

Also, BUSN for a business route? That's a new one.

Rather see Clearview than this:

http://goo.gl/maps/wNY1V

It would be nice if they added the directions for highway 4 (north and south).

[freebrickproductions]

Another one from Decatur, AL:
US 31/AL 67 by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

[mwb1848]

This little bit of Sign Salad from Selma, Ala., is among my earliest sign memories.

I always thought it was interested that ALDOT felt compelled to sign mainline U.S. 80, which was relocated to a bypass around the city, as both US 80 and Truck US 80. The old Broad Street alignment carried the Business U.S. 80 designation. Understandable, though, as a means to underscore that most thru trucks simply can't traverse the city by taking Broad Street to the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

I've not been back to Selma in years and never snapped a picture while I was there. This blurry GSV will have to do. The heavily blurred shields are U.S. 80 – bringing to FIVE the total number of U.S. 80 variations on display.

[jeffandnicole]

Some of these 'salads' are like a bowl of lettuce and a drip of dressing.  Not every fricken assembly with a few signs is a salad.

[hbelkins]

I define "sine salad" as an assembly with five or more route markers.

[Zeffy]

I think this should fit well, from Ithica, New York:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.439266,-76.507947,3a,23.7y,289.92h,90.55t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1soHnzs7fa3YkogL8DsZb5Qg!2e0

[jbnv]

Concurrent routes +  statewide signage conventions = Louisiana petite sign salad. Get it with the restaurant garnish. Bon appetit!









(Apologies for the poor quality; these are GSV clips. The last one now has a third restaurant sign. I should try to get my own picture of it.)