Signs on the Highway
Driving back from the Black Keys show on Saturday, Michael and I noticed that there are signs every 10th of a mile on Interstate 95. The old mile markers made sense. Now, you drive past a marker every six seconds. Between Fredericksburg and northern Hanover, the signs consist of a larger plate with the miles and a decimal sign underneath. As you enter Hanover, the signs have the interstate 95 medallion along with the mileage. The signs appeared to taper off as we got close to Richmond. Between Fredericksburg and Hanover, we would have passed over 400 signs.
In contrast, I never saw mile markers in Ireland. I could drive for miles on a road and not even know the number of the route, let alone how far we had gone. Of course, in Ireland, any thing on the side of the road posed a hazard on their shoulderless roads.
I can only imagine that Virginia’s corrections department has so many inmates that they need some reason to crank out as many signs as possible.
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