Wrong way stripes
39.137433 -77.128867
Apparently the Maryland DOT wants folks to drive off the road. Silly government workers.
Truth be told, I had great trouble locating one of these. Since you posted this last summer I have looked for one of these. My family will even tell you how obsessed I have become about this. I’ll hand it to the NJ DOT; it apparently is staffed with quite competent workers as I have driven all over the state and have not found one of these.
We spent some time in the DC area and I spotted one on 495 right near the MD-VA line. I was so excited I woke up a sleeping wife, who has complained since that I did so. That sign, however, proved unloggable as it is on a curve in heavy traffic. Bummed we continued on.
Later in the day I was out caching. As I am wont to be, I was running late. The entire family and our hosts were waiting for my return so we could go to dinner. I hurried home.
But, wasn’t that sign hung backwards? I was on a small two-lane road with some traffic. I hadn’t gotten a great look at it, but I am pretty certain it was backwards. I drove on. Hell, I pulled into a development, sprang back onto Muncaster the other way. Back at where I thought it was, I pulled over and waited for the traffic to pass and then banged another U-turn.
Hot dang! There she is! I found my white whale. I found one of these signs. Holy smokes.
As I stood there snapping the obligatory photographs, I kept thinking there was some reason it was hung like this that would discount this find. Nope. There is no reason for vehicles to go the way the sign indicates.
I enjoyed this hunt. I learned about a very common item that I did not know about. My eyes are trained to spot these things now. The horror!
Also blogged on this date . . .
- GPS's Natural Environment - 2008
- Cache Me If You Can! - 2008
- Fermez la bouche - 2008
- Irony - 2007
- "I Took As Much Risk As I Could" - 2006
- All Things Must Pass - 2006
- All-Star Game - 2005
- Jedi Rivca Crsan's Star Wars cache - 2005
- More Bagels, Please! - 2005
- Backseat Movies - 2005
- You Stink! - 2003
- All-Star Game - 2001
- Solar Circus - 1992
By Grammy on Jul 14, 2008
In Florida we have blue reflective lights here and there in the roadbed. Do you know what they mean? They designate a fire hydrant nearby. Maybe they are feasible only here where there are no snow plows to dislodge them.
Mom
By Bob on Jul 30, 2008
Interestingly, when I was driving back from the zoo last week (two weeks ago, I guess), what do I see? Yup, just a few miles from the eCache home there certainly is a wrong way stripe. Had I not driven that way in the last year? Or had I just missed it? Questions without answers . . .