Roadtrippin' Colorado Style

When crews needed to expand the water main along south Tejon Street in Colorado Springs, the easiest way was to place the main on the road.

Hacking and slashing their way to a (very)high-end enclave of homes, developers didn't care too much about the environment here.

I have never seen this type of cones before in my life. I'm wondering if Colorado has so many construction projects going on that crews are having a cone shortage and are having to improvise...

This segment of stupidity brought to you by Gart Sports, whose name recently was retired in a merger. They had to throw away their signs somehow, and I guess disassembling them was out of the question.

Aaahhh, redhead on a hog with a Taz strapped to the back seat in a way that Taz's tongue is sticking out and waving at you as she goes by. Does it really get any better than that?

I call this one Alphabet Soup VMS.

Nonstandard sign goodness found entering Cripple Creek, CO while headed northbound on SH 67.

Complete with an old pointing finger, this "sign" leads you to fabulous downtown Victor, CO.

When mutants mate with road signs, you get something quite similar to this. He should have a doctor check out that bend. Looks painful.

Welcome to Colorado Springs, where we place our welcome signs so low people can skid out on it! This is seen on the US 85/Nevada Avenue entrance to the city.

Older gore point sign spotted on the southbound offramp to Cimmaron Street from I-25. Look closely, and you can even tell where the bolts holding the new white text and borders are. And it looks like this was exit 60 before mile-based numbering happened here.

AIEEEE! The dreaded Transport Lite (™Comrade Yamamoto), aka Clearview, aka CrapTastic, has infiltrated Colorado Springs. All new street signs are going up with the dreaded font. Ugh.

Okay, how many people do you think actually know what the CRS number means? Wouldn't it be easier to say "It's against the law"?

Here's a rarer and rarer sight: the Sinclair Dinosaurs. This is at a Sinclair station (natch) at the interchange of US 24 and Bus US 24 just east of Manitou Springs. Is it me or is the closer one eyeing it's dinner? :)

Remember kids, when backing up, make sure there's not someone else backing up at the same time. This clustered this parking lot for almost 45 minutes for no real discernable reason.

Smile! You're on Candid Camera! This lone officer was relaying car types and speeds to about 8 different motorcycle cops hiding behind the wall. This is a norm in COS, and the drivers all complain about it. Maybe if they weren't doing 70 in a 55...

Well, this sums up Colorado Springs waaaaay too well.

Awww, how cute. We're still using cement-filled tires for our sign supports. Isn't it nice to see that we're all grown up out here?

Alright, kids, you all know the words to AC/DC's If You Want Blood (You Got It): "If you want blood, you got it / If you want blood, you got it / Blood on the streets / Blood on the rocks / Blood in the gutter / Every last drop / You want blood, you got it"

Academy Boulevard in all it's driveway'ed glory. Only masocists drive Academy from one end to another. (15 miles, 45 minutes or more) I've done it many, many times.

Heh. A '666' plate from the last state in the union you'd ever expect one from.

Wow, we're so nice when it comes to policing DUI's here! If it were up to me, I'd make this say "Drive Sober, Damnit!"

And remember, if you don't like my driving, call ............

The other part of the sign says "Go to Jail." I wonder how many people slowed down to the speed limit when they saw this. This VMS actually was talking about your Blood Alcohol Content, not your speed.

Here's a rarity: a closed McDonalds. The McFor Sale sign is just out of the pic.

Line painting on new asphalt on a hot day. Yup, couldn't pay me enough.

Approaching some line painting exercises. Would have been nice if there was any warning to this mess.

So you gotta put the arrow with the crosswalk sign now, but it's hung off of a pole? Simple soultion is to bunge on the arrow. Since we're a simple folk out here, that's exactly what we did.

Let's start off the pic of the day page with a downhill. A 9% grade at that. This is here in Colorado Springs on Fillmore Street just west of I-25. This is fun in the winter. The coiled wire used to span the intersection for reasons unbeknownst to me.