At least two corners at Woodside Avenue and 69th Street, near the entrance/exit of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, used to have one or two “arrowhead” directional signs. Almost invariably, arrowheads or triangles pointed the way to bridges, while circle-shaped signs pointed to tunnels.
The Department of Transportation now removes these signs when made aware of their presence, and these disappeared at least a year ago.
10/22/14
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“The Department of Transportation now removes these signs when made aware of their presence, and these disappeared at least a year ago.” If the DOT removes them at the first note of their presence, then why note their exact location to begin with? Seems pretty counter-productive to me, especially when you express your dismay about their removal. If you want them to remain, then just take the picture, but don’t give a location, and they’ll remain. Seems like a pretty simple solution to me……
It’s like the Dutch boy holding his finger in the dike. You can delay it only for so long.
Not if you don’t give an exact location. The DOT has better things to do than go on a witch hunt for old or obsolete signage if they don’t know where to look. If you give a location, then they’ll go there 100% of the the time and said sign will be removed. Just as a friendly suggestion, if you happen to see a sign of interest, just take a picture and show it, but refrain from showing or telling an exact location, and more likely than not, you’ll be able to return to that sign a year or two or three from the time you took the initial photo, and it will still be there. That’s just my half a penny……