Did you know there is a way to tell if a town’s highway superintendent suffers from red-green color blindness?
Look to see if there are a lot of blue-on-white signs in a town. Color blind individuals strongly prefer those colors over green-on-white signs.
I bet you didn't know a 8-lanes of Interstate 84 in Hartford, CT cross a bridge completed in 1908, oldest interstate highway bridge in America. It's not a short bridge either -- it spans 1,192 feet. They did add two more lanes in 1964, and part of the bridge is concrete, but most of it is cut stone.
I drove up to the Voorheesville Traffic light this evening, waited for three minutes — there was over a 1/4 mile traffic backed up behind me — and the light never turned green. I tried rolling forward, but still couldn’t trip the damn induction loop.
Ultimately, ended up running the red — the light turned as soon as the next car moved up the sensor.
This happens from time to time — but it’s been happening more frequently for me. I wonder if the DOT has turned down the sensitivity on the induction loops. It’s not like I replaced my truck with a completely plastic vehicle.
Signs to keep drivers focused on driving in the Himalayan Mountains, India.
Posted by AARoads on Sunday, June 30, 2019
BATESBURG-LEESVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) - Traffic can be a hassle, but it appears at least one person decided to take issues into their own hands.
In the town of Batesburg-Leesville, which sits west of Columbia, somebody decided to turn a thru lane into a left turn only lane. The only problem? It wasn’t the South Carolina Department of Transportation, but SCDOT officials aren’t sure who did it either.
In the future I imagine State DOTs will take inspiration from the Mueller Report and post signs that say: