Recently I've been photographing Canberra Bridge numbers and registering them in OSM in the hope that one day ACT emergency services will find them to be of use. I've currently done about 200 (only 600 to go).
I will be taking two weeks off work (next week) and planned to spend the first week getting more bridge numbers in the ACT and the second week photographing bus stop signs in Queensland. However, I've run into a snag. On the way home last night, I saw what appeared to be a new number on bridge 2176 (north side of Pialligo Avenue near No 1 Oval, near the airport). This bridge has a hard to find number plaque and today I rechecked the sinage. The "hard to find" 2176 is still there (black number on a white rectangular background) but the new, easy to see sinage, is different. It is a vertical strip (white numbers on a black background), and the numbers ( 251* 330 *) are just like what is on a light pole close to the bridge ( 251 *320* ). I'm now uncertain whether the 4 digit bridge number (I've seen lowest of 1014 and highest of 5281) is being discontinued in favour of the "light pole" numbering system. Unless anyone here knows the answer to this riveting question, I'll try to contact the "bridge and lightpole" people in the ACT Government to get an answer. Till then I may have to suspend bridge number collecting (but I'm not about to start collecting light poles numbers, unless they happen to be on a bridge or tunnel). Nick
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