The Business routes, no longer the main routes, multiplex in Culpeper. It's one of Virginia's independent cities, and thus maintains (or in this case, fails to maintain) its own signage.


US 15/29/522 SB breaks up on the south side of Culpeper; VA 3 hasn't begun yet. This semi-cutout sign is not typical VDOT, but since this is within city limits, it's a Culpeper sign.


Do these signs look a little odd? And why are they constructed differently if they carry essentially the same message? My US 17 page answers the first question, since these are from the duplex around Warrenton, but the second question may never be answered.


These photos, courtesy Lou Corsaro, are captioned on the US 50 page. They're westbound, and need to be cut out.


US 29 and VA 237 remain multiplexed for some distance...


...to the exclusion of even mentioning US 29. US 50 is about to join the WB-SB multiplex with US 29 here. Both photos courtesy Lou Corsaro.


Older secondary route shield, northbound.


Hillwood Ave. in Falls Church as it bears off of US 29 NB (Lee Highway EB).


Cutouts are dying in Virginia, but not dead yet by any means. The first is courtesy Lou Corsaro.


Northbound at Fairfax Drive and Washington Blvd., a one-way pair on top of I-66. VA 237 finally leaves US 29 in the first photo and continues eastward on its own.

SB at Fairfax.


Now Fairfax Blvd. EB, a green sign where shields would do just fine (and take up less space).

On the NB side.


For something not related to I-66, I present VA 309 and older shields, courtesy Lou Corsaro.


Just across the Francis Scott Key Bridge, 29 runs into I-66 for the first time. I-66 WB gets a state-name shield, since most traffic will be heading that way, but I-66 EB (back into Washington DC, and reached via the other direction of US 29) gets an adorable I-395/(Reagan) Airport sign. It's as Philadelphia as VDOT gets (Arlington is not a city, but a county, so unlike the real cities it doesn't get to erect its own signage on state highways).


US 29 gets I-66 a second and then a third time (they're roughly parallel for awhile), involving blue signs where green would not only work just fine, but would also be compliant with the FHWA MUTCD (Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices). Southbound, courtesy Lou Corsaro, sandwiching the VA 309 photo above.

Into D.C. on US 29
Into North Carolina on US 29
Onto US 522
Onto US 50
Onto VA 7
Onto I-66
To I-395
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