Oregon Roads

[aax]

Originally Posted by texasdiver

1. He wasn't on an Oregon Highway. From the article it appears he must have gotten lost on a Forest Service road or logging road of some sort, probably trying to take a shortcut of some sort.

2. He didn't die on the road anyway. The article says he was on foot and fell into a ravine.

Have you ever driven the road in question?

[karlsch]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Well, the article says this:
I don't see why more signage couldn't be added without much fuss. Sure, one should know better than to take a backroad route in terrain one doesn't know well, but would it be that costly to add a couple of signs in the area, and in other similar areas around the state?

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There are so many roads like this in Oregon, it would be costly to add signs. What would the signs say, anyway?

[aax]

Originally Posted by karlsch

There are so many roads like this in Oregon, it would be costly to add signs. What would the signs say, anyway?

Digital signs that you swipe with finger. They tell you how to get back to a main road if you are lost. Or pre-printed signs.

[PNW-type-gal]

This is not flat Florida, this is mountainous terrain, often heavily forested, with many roads that are not "roads" so much as gravel (or plain dirt) paths. You'll find places like this all through the intermountain west. That isn't going to change and it doesn't really need to change.

[aax]

Originally Posted by PNW-type-gal

it doesn't really need to change.