Baltimore City




Howard St. NB, which as you can see has light rail tracks crisscrossing it. Periodically, traffic has to cross between the tracks (first sign at Lexington St.) and then back out the side, presumably to allow station stops. The second photo shows both the railroad version of no-left-turn and the "trolley" signal, which is a bar that rotates from vertical to horizontal instead of green to red.


Traveling north on US 1, if you don't turn left you get here in another block, as North Ave. ends. I wonder if it's a deterrent to street racing?


Typical Baltimore city-erected shield, with extra black space and smaller size, Greenmount Ave. NB.


E Pratt St. EB at Gay St., courtesy Scott Colbert; this is here because I don't want to have to arbitrarily assign it to the 40 or 1 page.


Two more Scott Colbert signs, Lombard St. WB.


On Sinclair Lane EB, where instead of the double-green some traffic signals have, Baltimore apparently worries about those who try to turn left on red.


Washington Plaza, just north of downtown. At night, the crabs come alive and eat the brains of unwary visitors just trying to look at the old NO TURNS ON RED sign.

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Baltimore County


Gunpowder Copper Works on an old LWS, on MD 147 SB.


MD 128 EB at MD 30, Reisterstown.


Another old white sign, MD 128 EB (really on the WB side, though).


My guess: The engineering firm drew up signing plans and didn't have the appropriate image of a parent escorting a child through a crosswalk, so they put SCHOOL inside along with the FHWA sign designation (an alphanumeric code), expecting someone to fix it. No one fixed it, and the contractor didn't have/didn't care about figuring out the proper image, so just wrote SCHOOL where the image should be. There are other explanations, but the pentagon belongs to only one sign and it's not this one. I believe this is on Tufton Rd. east of Reisterstown.


Further east on Tufton Ave. are a number of signs that look like this. If I saw a bicyclist running down a pedestrian in the crosswalk in front of me, I would get out and do something.

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W. 29th St. in Baltimore
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