Subscribe Here for News & EventsIn an effort to determine if larger and more reflective street signs will help us find our way around town, the City has just installed pilot signs along Nogales at three intersections, starting at Obregon driving to the west. The old signs are 6″ with 4″ lettering. The new ones are 9″ signs with 6″ lettering and much more reflective. Also, one obelisk has been repainted with reflective paint. see if you can spot it!
Drive by (day and ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT) and vote for the combination you like best.
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At Obregon and Nogales, the new signs are mounted on each of the four stop signs.
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At Rubio and Nogales, one is mounted on the current stop sign (SW corner) and one installed at the mid-curve of the corner (NW)
3. At Alvarado, one new one is installed at mid-curve, and the stop sign has the old size sign.
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See if you can spot which corner has the obelisk with new reflective paint. How does it work? Can you see it better than the new street signs?
OK. NOW DRIVE BY AT NIGHT (AND DAY) AND SEE WHICH CONFIGURATION IS EASIEST TO READ. VOTE HERE, BY MAKING YOUR COMMENT.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I drove down Nogales last night was was amazed at how “lit up” the new signs are. Both with dim lights and high beam. Names are VERY visible. Having the signs RIGHT on the corner is helpful, however most that are posted on the stop signs are visible. In one case, landscaping (trees) interfere. The obelisk? Not sufficient to make a difference, unfortunately. However, don’t remove them, they are so cute! The City is on the right track here. This could solve our street lighting problem…..
July 17th, 2008 at 7:09 am
I don’t know if we need big as the new signs, or smaller size. Most of the old signs have lost all reflection. The city can save some money by having 2 sign poles in each intersection.
Final statement, I love the new signs.
July 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I’ve been driving by the new street signs, also taking others with me, day and night. They look great. Very easy to see during the day, but really easy at night. The letters are nice and big and they are very reflective. The street light issue and people not being able to see the streets is really eliminated with these new signs. I would, however, like the city to keep one of the oblisk signs on each corner. This is really a gentle reminder of the cove’s past.
July 19th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
KL: I couldn’t agree more. This appears to be a very workable solution to a longstanding problem.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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August 15th, 2008 at 7:18 am
I like the signs posted in the #2 picture. They are the easiest to see.
The obelisks on a practical level may as well not even be there. When I first moved to the cove, I’d have to slow down at every block just to see where I was. I’m sure the drivers behind me found that to be irritating.
Just yesterday, I was behind a vehicle that slowed and pulled to the right at EACH corner. I’m sure the driver was trying to read street signs. I think that can be extremely dangerous. Drivers are concentrating so hard on reading the street signs that they aren’t paying attention to their driving. In this particular case, the driver swung right back into the driving lane without signaling. I’m sure other cars on the road were completely omitted from this driver’s mind in his quest to read street signs.
I don’t like the street signs on top of the stop signs because the stop signs are too far back from the corner. There are an incredible amount of stop signs obscured by trees and bushes. (I think that’s another thing that needs to be addressed, but I’ll save that for another time.)
Please, please, please let’s use the signs as posted in the second picture.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
The configuration in picture #2 gets my vote. They are a great improvement over the existing signage and the obelisks.
The obelisks need to be removed from the ranks of street signs. If people want to hang on to them for historical reasons, fine. Let them become art projects for the grade schools or something, but remove them as a tool in traffic control. They just aren’t practical or safe for drivers or pedestrians.