Out-of-State Plates 59.

New Plates:

MT Montana

New design -- state outline recedes in the background.

Typeface is still not the most legible.

 

 

VA - Virginia.

 

VERY old Virginia license plate from before

the switchover to "Times New Roman"-like typeface.

 

"Heritage" plate with a Cardinal, the state bird, on

a dogwood branch bearing the state flower.

 

 

Out-of-State Plates 50a

VA

A Virginia Bumper Sticker!

 

 

Looks like the previous governor Bob McDonnell had allowed the roads of Virginia fall into deterioration.  And the present governor Terry McAuliffe? Probably doing the same exact thing. With the amount of extra funding they get from Washington, they have no excuse!

Out-of-State Plates 50

VA

Today, Virginia. The Old Dominion.

A vanity plate, in the old style.

Old style, regular alpha-numerical sequence.

Newer style, vanity plate.

Newer style, another vanity plate. 

"Friends of the Chesapeake" legacy plate.

The Old Dominion.

Here are some suggested route marker signs for Virginia. The present State Primary route markers are a kind of rounded shield in a black square, and the State Secondary is the boring circle sign.

Here's the present Primary route marker.

(Grey represents sky, which is typical throughout)

This one can be for limited-access free roads like Quebec's Autoroutes.

This one can be for toll roads.

This one can be for the Primary roads.

And this one can be for Secondaries.

More US Routes

This series can be used in part with the ones in my previous post, or without. I posted these in small size at The Great International Highway Makeover a while back.

Regular US Route.

US Alternate Route.

If this is too confusing, just use the previous and suffix it with 'A'.

US Business Loop.

US Route on Tollway.

:^) Purple can be used instead of Prussian Blue.

The first sign above could then be used on freeways.

US Truck Route.

US Historic Route - The Mother Road.

US Scenic Route (2di).

Road through the Cumberland Gap.

US Scenic Route (3di).

The Avenue that's known as AIA.

I'd extend it to Canada using David Sturm's idea, also endorsed by R.V. Droz.

Tomorrow I'll throw up some other ideas how to treat US Routes on Expressways (Freeways and Tollways).