Want to walk the Golden Road?

[Scott5114]

It's in Texas. US-377 just south of the Oklahoma line.

Didn't remember I managed to get a picture of it! I took this trip back before I knew about this site, but I knew of the pricing game, so I snapped the pic.

[heelsrule1988]

There's a Golden Road a few miles from here... I always think of TPIR when I pass it.

[OCSO407]

I've got to remember next time I'm driving through Ithaca to take a picture of Winners Circle...

[TheBigAK]

Can we make this the new Wall Drug???

[someguy23475]

See pic above

Is there a Viper or motorhome parked at the end of it?

[therealcu2010]

GAH! Why did they have to ruin Golden Road by using Clearview?!?

[/roadgeekmode]

[someguy23475]

I thought I was the only one that hated Clearview!

[Garvin8r]

Add me to the list of roadgeeks that hates Clearview.  Sure, capital I's and lowercase L's no longer get confused, but still...

[sideshowPA]

Today...at the end of the Golden Road....is the most expensive outhouse we have ever offered.....

[PriceFanArmadillo]

So, uh, do these 'roadgeeks' have an actual reason for hating Clearview, or is it just the trendy thing to do, like complaining about losing eggcrate displays?

[Superballer]

So I suppose where the Golden Road and Red River Run overlap, it goes as Orange Boulevard, am I right? 

[therealcu2010]

So, uh, do these 'roadgeeks' have an actual reason for hating Clearview, or is it just the trendy thing to do, like complaining about losing eggcrate displays?

Because Clearview is terrible.

[someguy23475]

It's ugly, and in my opinion actually harder to read. Plus, it's a waste of money to replace perfectly good signs (which they did in Michigan at least), just because they wanted to change the font.

[hyhybt]

From what little of it I've seen, the letters themselves are OK but they're spaced too far apart.

[Scott5114]

Clearview is a road sign font that was just introduced a few years back. Some states, like Texas and Michigan love it and actively replace the old font (FHWA Series fonts) with it. Here's another example of Clearview with upper and lower case letters:



By this point Texas is full of the stuff. I-40 between Amarillo and Erick, Oklahoma has not a single FHWA Series exit sign. It's all Clearview.

Oklahoma is taking a bit more conservative approach to it, installing Clearview signage only when older signage needs to be replaced:



And Missouri, bless them, doesn't use the stuff at all. Here's a MO sign with the traditional FHWA Series E-Modified font:



Here's a thread from a roadgeek forum on why Clearview is percieved as ugly.

Army, if you want to look at some Clearview signage in person, just take a drive down the I-39/90 tollway (boy, that is one interminable work zone). Compare that signage to I-39 south of the tollway, which still has the traditional FHWA fonts.