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Route Listings: M-22

Michigan Highways: Route Listings: M-22

In 2012, the M-22 route marker became the center of a legal and financial debate over whether a business can trademark a specific state highway route marker and prevent others from selling merchandise with the depiction of any other state highway route on it, not just the original one trademarked. In 2003, Matt and Keegan Myers began making and selling t-shirts and stickers featuring a close approximation of the M-22 route marker (they don't utilize the actual FHWA typeface for the numerals "22") and started using the slogan, "M-22 is not just a road; it is a way of life." They claimed it is "marked by the simplicity and appreciation for natural wonders such as bays, beaches and bonfires, dunes and vineyards, cottages, friends and family everywhere." οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½Soon after Keegan was featured on the cover of Traverse magazine wearing one of the brothers' M-22 t-shirts in 2006, sales of the shirts and stickers bearing the M-22 route marker started taking off. Soon, the pair began working with other retailers in Leelanau Co to produce additional apparel and accessory lines, including coffee and an M-22 brand of wine. An M-22 "company store" was opened in November 2007 in downtown Traverse City as well and the brothers filed for trademark protection for their M-22 logo in 2010 to further support the branding effort. Meanwhile, Heidi Marshall and Mary Roberts of Route Scouts, LLC in Harbor Springs started making souvenirs using the M-119 route marker and even tried to trademark it. Their effort failed when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied the application when it responded that it was 'too similar to the M22 registered trademark."

Covid-19 road signs?

I hope if New York spends $8 million on Covid-19 road signs they at least follow the Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) so they don’t get dinged by the federal government. The MUTCD is no joke, you follow it or you get fined.

Yes, they can have a pretty Coronavirus icon on the signs but they must use FHWA series fonts of the proper size and proportion and must be colored blue with white text. Or possibly black on white if it’s regulatory.

Mass DOT is not messing around. A proper metal sign with reflective sheet background. Probably should last at least 20…

Posted by Andy Arthur on Thursday, May 7, 2020

NYSDOT Rest Areas Across NY

This helpful interactive map shows NYS DOT rest areas along the major interstates (excluding the New York Thruway) with bathrooms. A few of these rest areas are closed, but it will give you an idea which facilities are open. Tomorrow, I will do a map of Thruway Rest Stops. I was originally going to combine these into one map, but it turns out the DOT and Thruway Authority record information on their Rest Areas in a very different format.