While not on the road for weeks on end, I put together this little flash application ... *unfortunately, it looks like I cannot embed flash directly into a Wordpress blog (if anyone knows how, drop me a line!) so here is a link to https://www.aaroads.com/shields/generator.php where it lives on its own page. have fun with it; and let me know if you find any bugs. I've only tested it on [...]
sale, sale, sale! I've got this Arizona US 89 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270483247930&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT) on eBay right now. and am putting in an order for shields in general. Email me at shields@aaroads.com with your request - any state, any number.
Hooray, new route markers. DFW's tolling authority, the NTTA, is replacing all of their signs - which are now unique to each route - with a standardized version. The Dallas North Tollway's familiar round green shields are about 30% gone; the George Bush Turnpike's old signs are over 60% replaced, and the newly christened Sam Rayburn Tollway (SH 121) has about 25% of its signs in the new style. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3380/3523867876_2242837beb_b.jpg [...]
Jeff Royston passed along a photo from Oklahoma City showing that Oklahoma now is using Clearview font on its signs. The state joins a growing number of jurisdictions that are implementing the new font throughout their highway signs. This led me again to ponder the question of which states are using it and which are not. To address the issue, we have created a guide to catalog each state and [...]
New South Carolina State Highway Sign Design. Graphic created by AARoads. Just caught this on a recent Southeast Roads Yahoo! Group post http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seroads/message/7077; on June 22, 2007,1 SCDOT unveiled a new highway shield design to replace the current black and white box shields used throughout the Palmetto State. The state follows Oklahoma (2006) and Vermont (1995) as states that changed from a drab shield design. A grandfathering [...]