Highways in Canada - Page 511

Acajack · #**10201** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 7:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe

Yes, that is the word...

It is quite annoying.

There are more than a handful of US states that still do this, IIRC.

harls · #**10202** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 8:56 PM**

I think that Québec has the most comprehensive highway system in Canada. They even rip off the interstate numbering system and highway shield.

FrAnKs · #**10203** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 9:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

They even rip off the interstate numbering system and highway shield.

That's a bold claim.

esquire · #**10204** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 9:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

That's a bold claim.

I don't know... I suspect the graphic designer tasked with coming up with a shield for autoroutes took a look at the Interstate shield, banged this out by noon, and called it a day.

Dengler Avenue · #**10205** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 9:30 PM**

Even the signages on Autoroutes look straight out of FHWA.

harls · #**10206** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 9:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

That's a bold claim.

But they did, man!

harls · #**10207** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 9:39 PM**

Couple that with the fact that they use odd numbers for their highways east to west, and even north to south, just like the USA, yes.. it is ripped off.

Acajack · #**10208** Posted **Jun 20, 2023, 10:55 PM**

The overpass and roadway in the red section is in fact almost a rip-off the universal European motorway symbol.

Masoliantekw · #**10209** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 2:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by harls

Couple that with the fact that they use odd numbers for their highways east to west, and even north to south, just like the USA, yes.. it is ripped off.

It is still logical and practical.
Here's a homemade diagram of our highway system :

Dengler Avenue · #**10210** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 2:08 PM**

The link between Mirabel and Joliette needs to be there to form a bypass of Montreal. Even the A640 isn’t that great.
MTQ’s been musing about twinning Route 158 so we’ll go from there.

Acajack · #**10211** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 2:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Masoliantekw

It is still logical and practical.
Here's a homemade diagram of our highway system :

Is it bad if we copied what might be a good idea the Americans had?

q12 · #**10212** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:17 PM**

Nova Scotia's highway shields are very similar to the U.S. as well.

U.S. 3:

Dengler Avenue · #**10213** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:19 PM**

Yea N.S. Trunk Road signages are a total knockoff of U.S. routes.

q12 · #**10214** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:23 PM**

Yeah none of that crown crap for us, we have tried to keep our American Tourists from getting confused and lost.

esquire · #**10215** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:30 PM**

I wonder where the custom of using the U or V-bottomed shield originated? That approach has definitely had staying power... only NL, NB and the Territories don't use them.

Acajack · #**10216** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:32 PM**

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Yea N.S. Trunk Road signages are a total knockoff of U.S. routes.

The NS rip-off of the US routes is meh, though the NS 100-series shield is one of my favourites in the country. It ranks up there with the Quebec autoroute shields.

NB looks like a dozen or so US states where the shape of the state is on the highway shield.

The others in Canada are rather unremarkable.

q12 · #**10217** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:36 PM**

Nova Scotia has to have one of the easiest system to navigate with a simple system of the 101 runs parallel to the 1, 102 with the 2, 103 with the 3 etc.

High Res:

hipster duck · #**10218** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:36 PM**

Kudos to Ontario for keeping the old monarchist flame alive! That's the Ontario I remember: the Lord's prayer in schools and a portrait of the Queen in every hockey rink.

Whether it was due to our province's old school conservative streak or our penny pinching fiscal conservatism (two sides of the same coin, I guess), we'll never know, but we resisted that designed-by-committee crap in the late 1980s unlike many other provinces.

Acajack · #**10219** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

I wonder where the custom of using the U or V-bottomed shield originated? That approach has definitely had staying power... only NL, NB and the Territories don't use them.

Good question. Never thought of it and while the U and V are common in the US, the percentage of states that use them is far lower than among the provinces.

Acajack · #**10220** Posted **Jun 21, 2023, 4:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by hipster duck

Kudos to Ontario for keeping the old monarchist flame alive! That's the Ontario I remember: the Lord's prayer in schools and a portrait of the Queen in every hockey rink.

Whether it was due to our province's old school conservative streak or our penny pinching fiscal conservatism (two sides of the same coin, I guess), we'll never know, but we resisted that designed-by-committee crap in the late 1980s unlike many other provinces.

And the way recent history has unfolded, "The King's Highway" makes sense once again.

(They never changed the signs to "The Queen's Highway" during her reign.)