The other PA thing I’ve noticed; in rural areas, along state roads, there’s large-ish wooden shelters with ads posted on the side, spaced about a mile or so apart. The shelters look the same everywhere in the state; there’s almost no variation in design. I’ve never seen such shelters in other states. When I see those shelters, I know for sure I’m in PA.
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If I’m reading you right, the shelters are school bus stops. I looked for a pic, but couldn’t find one to link to.
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If I’m reading you right, the shelters are school bus stops. I looked for a pic, but couldn’t find one to link to.
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It’s strange, because those same shelters are nonexistent in New York and Ohio. In PA, they all seem to share a standardized design; a lean-to with three solid walls and a completely exposed front.
The start of billboard clutter is a very good indicator of where a state line is.
I-25: Colorado - no billboards; Wyoming - everywhere
I-25: New Mexico - some billboards; Texas - yee-haw!
Missouri - billboards absolutely everywhere; Iowa, Illinois, Kansas - much less common
Ohio - not many billboards; Michigan - everywhere
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I 25 never enters Texas. I 40 runs east west though New Mexico and Texas.
Oh yeah I can tell, once you leave Arkansas the roads improve and the construction stops. Unless you are headed into Memphis, then the construction gets worse.
When I lived in NJ I’d cross into PA on I-95 all the time, and hardly noticed a difference. In California I cross into Nevada around Lake Tahoe, and the difference is a crapload of casinos right on the border. Hard to miss that.
In California, you can you’ve crossed county lines by road conditions - Alameda is a lot better than Santa Clara, on I880 at least. In NJ I could tell township boundaries by how well they did snow removal.
