October 3, 2018: One of the new generation of signs near one of Iowa’s two quadplex routes, the Mount Pleasant bypass. Blessedly, the Series D font is appropriate for the wide shields, which is the case much less often than it should be.
Coverage of signs in the Mount Pleasant area has had multiple iterations on this site, from before completion of the US 34 freeway to completely new signs replacing ones barely a decade old to incorporate the extension of IA 163.
The newest collection is on the Business 218 page. The north end has had a near-total replacement, conforming to the new style of panels rather than individual shields. I call these “medium green signs” because they’re not as large as the “big green signs” used on interstates. They are sizable in their own right, though, with the need to show four route numbers and four control cities.
I did NOT add the crop of new photos to the IA 438 page, although 438 remains a technically active route from the eastbound 34 ramp to the northbound 218 merge. That page keeps the full showing of what the signs used to be. You could have the windows open side by side to compare.
There are new pictures with the Business US 34 page too, since new BGSs on the Avenue of the Saints have replaced the green-outs that crammed tiny 34 and 163 shields into one space.
Ideally, all of the new signs have now been extensively covered so well in good light I won’t have to pass by again…until the rest of the BGSs on westbound 34 approaching 218 are replaced and I’m not having a semi bearing down on me. I hope they figure out that Business 218 belongs on the one heading into downtown, and that the intersection of the business routes could use some shields.