Fantasy Route Markers - Newfoundland And Labrador

This route marker is a more colorful version of the previous route marker that Newfoundland / Labrador had. I made the "ROUTE" banner and surround white, and added the provincial tourism logo.

Canadian Route Markers - Prince Edward Island

Here are two samples of a recoloring of Prince Edward Island's route marker. One has trees in summer, the other in autumn.

Canadian Route Markers - Nova Scotia

Here are some ideas I came up with for Nova Scotia's Arterials, Trunk Routes and Collector Roads. The Arterials' marker patterned after Quebec's autoroute marker; Trunk Routes after the current NS Arterial sign but with a green semi-circular field instead of blue; and Collectors a plain square in US county road colors, plus a pale yellow for visibility, topped of with a NS Flag emblem.

Canadian Route Markers - Ontario

Here are two samples of markers for Ontario's 400-series highways, patterned after the Autoroute markers for the province next door, Quebec.

Brazilian National Route Marker

I thought the Brazilian National Route Marker would look a lot nicer if the banner at top was replaced with graphics from the brzilian flag, and the BR- prefix dropped from the number at the bottom. Like this:

The grey is outside the sign limits.

Things are NOT working on these computers!

First of all, I tried logging in at noontime and Blogspot would NOT recognize my password! Now I was trying to upload photos and it's just takiing FOR EVER.

Which means posting the fictional Canadian Route Markers that I came up with will have to wait another day.

And a post on Peak Oil, another day still.

More Fantasy Route Markers Coming Soon

Monday I'll be posting fantasy route markers for the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Three of the provinces I don't have signs anywhere on the net yet, but the ones for Ontario may be viewed at "The Great International Highway Makeover," http://http://www.us-highways.com/new_signs.htm .

New Route Markers for US Routes

The following eight are for US Highways that are *not* of Interstate Quality and possess a distinctly 50s retro look with the banner inside the colored shield. The color coding would be for different types of routes, like Cody Goodman's signs at The Great International Highway Makeover and AJ Froggie's idea for bannered routes at Magnolia Meanderings. The first sign would be for the mainlines. It is red, white and blue with either "United States" for the banner, as shown, or with "US" alternatlvely.





This next would be for the posted Alternate Routes; the numeral field and the banner switch colors.




This one would be for the Truck Routes, black for heavy trucking.




The next one would be for the Business Routes. Its field is green, the color of money. All Business and City Routes that link to the mainline at both ends plus all "Loop" Routes would be marked as "Business Loop" as shown. All mainlines that have Bypass Routes going around an urban area would also become Business Loops; the Bypasses would then become parts of the mainlines. Also, all Business and City Routes that link to the mainline at one end *only* plus all "Spur" Routes would be similarly marked as "Business Spur."




Now this one with the "TOLL" banner could be for tolled sections of mainlines that are not otherwise interstate quality. It could also be used for tollways if it is decided on a national basis not to use the two US route markers shown in the pervious post for the US freeways and tollways.



These last three are the pleasure-oriented travel routes, brown on white. The first of these three would be for the Historic Routes. The last two would be for Scenic Routes. An' a tip' o' the ol' hat to RVD of The Great International Highway Makeover for the last one -- his US Highways 1 to 830 webpage with its Route A1A idea inspired that last one!

An Idea for US Routes of Interstate Quality but are not on the System

These two are intended for US Highways with Interstate characteristics, i.e., fully-controlled access with breakdown lanes, where possible. These two have the "modern" US Highway Sign shape outlined blue shield with with contrasting blue surround and differently-colored banner representing a fully controlled access expressway -- same as for Quebec's Autoroutes. The one with the red banner would be for freeways and the other would be for tollways.

A Word on Interstate Numbers and Signs

There are two interstates who stick out like sore thumbs ‘coz their numbers are out of sequence: I-238 in the San Francisco Bay Area and I-99 in central Pennsylvania. The former was probably just as well since locals have always known it as the 238. The latter, which used to be US-220 and still is, is the result of GOP political corruption and pigheadedness! (I have also heard that certain interests in Penna. wanted I-67 for the next freeway over... so that area would have two out-of place Interstates: one of which would be more suited for Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the Carolina Low Country or Mass. State Road 3 to Cape Cod, and the other one would be more suited running north from Indianapolis into Michigan!)

And there are rumors afoot that the Feds want to replace the familiar shield with a square to cut down on wastage of resources. If that is true, I believe they would pick a truely ugly design like this:

I would rather they choose a better, more colorful design. Here are two examples:

Defnitely easy to understand and a classier design than the hideous shield-in-a-square design that would be similar to the one the FHWA mandated for our US Highways’ signs, including Florida, which used to have a wonderful kaleidescopic array of such signs!

And with my design, something could be done about the two obnoxiusly out-of-place road numbers!

California’s I-238:

And of course, Pennsylvania’s notorious Bud Shuster Freeway!