Talk:Control city
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Suggestion for trivia or facts, Interstate 605 which runs from Duarte, CA to Seal Beach, CA has no Control city markers at all, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_605_%28California%29
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[edit] 3rd reason for non-compliance?
- The published standard is not always followed, either because major destinations have since appeared that were not on the original list, or because of state highway departments' hesitancy to sign destinations in other states.
Well, there's a third reason, sorta: Because one state is loathe to sign a relatively insignificant destination in another state when it could sign a much larger, more distant destination. I guess that technically falls under the second category, but it seems like it could be clarified a bit.
For example, on Interstate 80 in Cheyenne I remember seeing signs for Omaha instead of Sidney. This was in the 90s so may have changed,. (For a more recent version, see interstate-guide.com with photos of I-80 south of Salt Lake City with signs to Reno rather than Elko; likewise, Nevada fails to sign its own control city in Reno, instead returning the favor to "Salt Lake.") The point is, Wyoming wasn't resistant to signing Nebraska cities -- just small NE cities. Technically I guess "hesitancy to sign destinations in other states" means hesitancy to sign Sidney, which is in another state -- but so is Omaha, so what that statement is implying, that Wyoming would rather not sign a Nebraska destination, is untrue.
Get what I'm saying? We're not talking about CA's "other Desert Cities" instead of Phoenix here, although I grant that I may be drawing an inference that's not there. Cheers, PhilipR 05:54, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] references and notability
While I'm not disputing the term - definitions belong at Wiktionary. Who has written significantly about the concept of Control cities? Providing images of highway signs is just original research to back up the fact that the concept exists, but to have an article about the concept it has to be shown that the term is an accepted general term.Garrie 04:27, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
- It is an official term that appears in the FHWA's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. AASHTO produces a list of them, "List of Control Cities for Use in Guide Signs on Interstate Highways". It's not just a "general term", it is actually a very well-defined, officially regulated one.—Scott5114↗ 10:07, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Change
IIRC, when I-5 was completed along the west side of the San Joaquin Valley in California, the northbound control city on signage in the Los Angeles area remained Bakersfield for several years, although SR99 continues to Bakersfield and I-5 does not. This was eventually corrected.LorenzoB 02:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mexico
Mexico has the irritating practice on the federal highways of posting only one control city, and that is the very next town in that direction, however small. They also fail to post cardinal directions. Frequent reference to a map is necessary. LorenzoB 02:54, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
