road signs
 

Why in the world do we need to have highway markers every 2 tenths of a mile. All the highways have them now. What a colossal waste of $$$$$, never mind the urban blight look. There aren't enough signs on the sides of the road now. Visual pollution IMO.

Those markers used to be real small, on reflectors every 1/10mile back in the day. When you saw an emergency you could report the incident with a very high degree of accuracy. But all before cell phones.

And on every even milepost, they have the route number---just in case you forgot what highway you were driving on in the last minute or so :doh:

The other thing I love is the "Evacuation Route" signs on the Cape--du-uh, there's only two ways off the Cape and both of them are in the same general direction.

That's funny. Me and macojoe were just talking about this last week. Someone's making a bundle.:bs:

thing i noticed about those signs was how they seem to be about the right height to come right thru the windshield if you hit one. really stupid waste of $$ there devall. maybe his brother owns the sign company.

I think the state makes thier own signs. They used to anyway. Paul is right though, visual polution, it almost as bad as the trash on the GD ground.

If not, someone made a large campaign contribution. :(

Gota love them when on the road..Radio reports as to where the speed traps are when traveling un familiar roads.:cheers:

I'd like to know the cost of one of them:hs:.I want the contract to replace the ones that get taken out by the snow plows.Maybe they should be different colors for N,S,E,W.:rotflmao:

Those signs are replacement for decent paving. Driving on MA roads is the pits. Asphalt peeling and chuck holes everywhere, but we now have some very nice signs.

We were in New Hampshire this weekend, and they're every .2 miles across the line along 93, too.

My guess is that they're Federally funded.

They have been in use for as long as I can remember, Are the signs you are referring to new? I think they were part of the highway building after WW2. If you were ever "on the road" you would have seen them in all states. :yawn:

Wait till they put telephones back every two-tenths of a mile, "get people working". Wonder what happened to all those yellow call boxes.

Yes new Don. I have seen them, mile markers that is, on some highways but not every 2/10th's of a mile. It is ridiculous.

the only good thing about them is being able to tell someone about to rescue you on the highway exactly where you are.

Yeah...I love this one! First time I saw them all I could think of was "do I have any other options"?????

How long can you tread water?

More people must have scratched thier heads in amazement of the evac signs, your right, good point. I believe it is impossible to clear the cape of people. Look at the offload problem at the end of a holiday weekend.

Hey us truckers need to know where we are at all times we might loose concentration nothing to look @ also when calling 911 the cops don't know exit #'s and do you notice the BLUE reflectors sometimes what do you think that means,,, and also the CRACK HEADS need scrap metal they will soon dissapper , this is your stimulass $$$$$$ BRING BACK CAPITALISM
we need people making $ to spread it out to us BLUE COLLAR NON UNION WORKERS
NON UNION AND PROUD OF IT
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ps : I can't change nothing as an individual and hope I don't loose my job but the ICE is thin .
being a comm. driver since 1977 be happy u have mile markers and everything elese they need to do after all they have a job to do
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there's 150,000.00 worth of signs
 

saying that this or that highway construction project
is paid for with (our) stimulous money
and that is an acceptable use of the money
according to the current administration

i don't agree with that

not with so many bridges in disrepair...:doh:

Heard yesterday from a bud who works on the highway that it cost the state 2.8 million dollars for the signs and to install them.