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Re: Google Street View
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:11 am
by ZachL
Nothing odd about it. That was the yield sign in use from 1961-1971, and is the design that predates the one we know and love today.
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 11:27 am
by ToledoRailfan
ZachL wrote:
Nothing odd about it. That was the yield sign in use from 1961-1971, and is the design that predates the one we know and love today.
ToledoRailfan wrote:Old
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:57 pm
by ToledoRailfan
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:49 am
by ToledoRailfan
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 2:12 am
by freebrickproductions
I'm more interested in these signs right up the road, which appear to have once held some shields on them?
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3208569 ... 6656?hl=en
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:30 am
by ToledoRailfan
Huh, that is pretty odd as well.
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:07 pm
by cabman701
Do you mean all the screws that appear to be sticking out? I think that is an extra secure way to mount the signs to their frames... probably to better protect them from the wind.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3212089 ... 6656?hl=en
This smaller exit sign on the other side of the bridge has them also:
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.32436,- ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3244066 ... 6656?hl=en
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:34 pm
by ZachL
cabman701 wrote:Do you mean all the screws that appear to be sticking out? I think that is an extra secure way to mount the signs to their frames... probably to better protect them from the wind.
Shield as in highway shield
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 2:10 pm
by freebrickproductions
ToledoRailfan wrote:
Huh, that is pretty odd as well.
We actually have a sign like this here in Huntsville on Jordan Lane at I-565 where this sign once held an AL 53 shield:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7191811 ... 312!8i6656
The reason behind that is because the contractor making the original signs for I-565 didn't know where AL 53 went at this intersection (it goes down Governors Drive to Memorial Parkway from here, along with AL 20 before it was truncated to I-65 in Decatur around the time I-565 was built), so they just put up the AL 53 shield on the thru traffic sign for Jordan Lane while the sign for Governors Drive (on the left) got an AL 20 shield. However, ALDOT corrected this mistake by moving the AL 53 shield over to the proper sign and putting it where the AL 20 shield was. The signs on the other side also have a space where an AL 20 shield went, along with the greenout used on the cardinal direction for I-565 being more visible:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7187366 ... 312!8i6656
And this sign, on the side of the intersection, if you look closely, you can see where they used greenout to correct the cardinal directions on it when the AL 20 shield was replaced with an AL 53 shield:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7178126 ... 312!8i6656
Re: Google Street View
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:28 pm
by ToledoRailfan
ZachL wrote:cabman701 wrote:Do you mean all the screws that appear to be sticking out? I think that is an extra secure way to mount the signs to their frames... probably to better protect them from the wind.
Shield as in highway shield
Sure it wasn't this shield?!
