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View of San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. Founded in 1851 as San Luis de Culebra, it is the oldest town in Colorado. Shows a wide dirt street, adobe houses and corrals.

View of fields on the outskirts of San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. Adobe buildings, a house trailer, a church and houses are in the town. A large mesa is near the town and painted rocks form letters that read: "San Luis, Oldest Town in Colo." Snows covers Blanca Peak and Mount Lindsey in the distance.

Discusses local governments in Bristol, Danbury, East Hartford, Enfield, Fairfield, Greenwich, Hamden, Hartford, Manchester, Meriden, Milford, New Britain, Norwalk, Shelton, Southington, Stratford, Trumbull, Waterbury, West Hartford and West Haven.

View of downtown Denver skyline from Confluence Park in Denver, Colorado. Shows the South Platte River and Cherry Creek. Condominiums, apartment buildings and high rise buildings are in the distance. A sign reads: "Quest."

View of Palmer Lake with the town of Palmer Lake in the background. A BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe) train passes between the two. Both the town, hillside and train are reflected in the lake in the foreground.

View of the town of Crested Butte in Gunnison County, Colo. Located in a beautiful mountain valley named for the prominent peak in the background, the once grimy coal mining town has been reborn as one of Colorado's best known resort towns.

View of the town of Red Cliff (Redcliff, Eagle County), Colorado. Shows wood frame residential and commercial buildings, a dirt road, Union Pacific Railroad tracks, an arched bridge and a church.

View of the Denver skyline from Gates-Crescent Park at Twenty-third (23rd) Avenue and Crescent Drive in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The view, facing east, shows the South Platte River and skyscrapers in the Central Business District neighborhood in the distance.

Highway-freeway interchanges can be a source of confusion to unfamiliar drivers. Typically, freeway entrance ramp information is provided by means of trailblazer assemblies (interstate or highway shield, cardinal direction, and a small white arrow on a blue shield). Trailblazer assemblies are generally located right at the interchange location, giving unfamiliar drivers very little advance notification as to the proper lane choice needed to gain access to the freeway entrance. Advance located ground mounted diagrammatic guide signs provide this much needed information well in advance of the interchange entrance, thus giving drivers more time to change lanes, if needed. Diagrammatic signs have been used in Europe for many years with great success. The present study investigated the effectiveness of ground mounted diagrammatic signs in the context of urban multi-lane arterials leading to a freeway. The diagrammatic sign layout was designed as part of this project in collaboration with ODOT. Six highway-freeway interchanges were selected in the Greater Columbus, Ohio, area to determine the effectiveness of the diagrammatic signs in the field. Traffic flow video footage was collected at the selected sites before the diagrammatic signs were installed. The finalized diagrammatic sign designs were then installed and the traffic flow videotaping was repeated. The collected video footage was automatically analyzed with Mobilizer PC. The resulting vehicle count, speed, and headway data was used as input to a closed form analytical model to determine the probability that drivers could successfully change lanes as needed, prior to reaching the gore of the freeway entrance. The theoretical analysis indicated a much higher probability that an unfamiliar driver could execute a required lane change when diagrammatic signs are used. ODOT/FHWA evaluators visited the six interchange sites and provided their input and opinions as to the use of diagrammatic signs. The vast majority of the evaluators fully embraced the idea of diagrammatic signs. Eye movement recordings were performed at night at the six sites in order to determine if the presence of the diagrammatic signs was distracting. The results of the eye movement analysis indicate that the diagrammatic signs are not looked at excessively often or excessively long. The overall median first look distance to the diagrammatic signs was found to be 125m. An evaluation with unfamiliar test drivers corroborated the findings of the theoretical model analysis, in that drivers were able to execute a needed lane change much earlier when diagrammatic signs were provided. A set of application guidelines for diagrammatic signs is provided.

View of the Denver skyline and the Platte Valley from the west side of Interstate 25 (I-25) in Denver, Colorado. Shows the north bound lanes of I-25 and commercial buildings in the Platte Valley, the observation tower at Six Flags Elitch Gardens (now Elitch Gardens Theme Park) and Ocean Journey aquarium (now the Downtown Aquarium) located at 700 Water Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood.

Aerial view from the Lionshead Gondola of the town of Vail (Eagle County), Colorado. Shows residential and commercial buildings, and I-70. People sit in the open cars of the gondola.

View of the Denver skyline from Gates-Crescent Park (23rd Avenue and Crescent Drive), in the Jefferson Park neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The South Platte River and buildings are in the distance.

Lists population density of all the towns in Connecticut ranked by density and ranked alphabetically by town name.

View of Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colo. Prominent on the street is the Tabor Opera House. The massive 3-story opera house was constructed of stone, brick and iron, and is trimmed with Portland cement. It was constructed by mining magnate, H.A.W. Tabor in 1879.

View of San Luis from the Shrine of the Stations of the Cross (La Mesa de la Piedad y de la Misericordia, Hill of Piety and Mercy), in Costilla County, Colorado. Two wooden crosses are on the side of the hill, and houses, businesses, fields, farms and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains are in the distance.

View of Ward (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows one- and two-story houses and an abandoned church on a steep hillside. The houses are in various states of repair. Automobiles are parked on a dirt road near stone retaining walls. The town, founded in 1863, was named after Calvin Ward.

View of the Denver skyline, the South Platte River, and trolley tracks from near Gates-Crescent Park in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

View of the Denver skyline from Fifteenth (15th) Street and Glenarm Place in the Central Business District of Denver, Colorado. Shows the Masonic Temple at 535 Sixteenth (16th) Street and the Kittredge Building at 511 Sixteenth (16th) Street. The Renaissance Revival-style Masonic Temple (1890, Frank E. Edbrooke and Company; 1950, W. Gordon Jamieson; 1985 renovation and addition, C.W. Fentress and Associates) is made of red-orange sandstone from Manitou, Colorado. The seven-story Kittredge Building (1891, A. Morris Stuckert) is in the Richardsonian Romanesque design. The first two floors are granite and the remaining rhyolite.

View of the Denver skyline from the top of a tower at Six Flags Elitch Gardens, an amusement park, at 2000 Elitch Circle in the Auraria neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The view, facing east, shows a train, Speer Boulevard, Cherry Creek and the skyscrapers and buildings of the Central Business District in the distance.

Provides following data on each town: population (1992); size (in square miles); 1991 and 1992 budgets; the number of firemen (1980), policemen (1992), and public school teachers (1992); average public school teacher salary (1992); and the number of public school students (1993).

View of the town of Hot Sulphur Springs, Grand County, Colo.

View of a siliceous tufa mound at Pagosa Springs in the town of Pagosa Springs (Archuleta County), Colorado. The town is nearby. The "Montoya's Cafe" is in the distance. A retaining wall and culvert surround the hot spring.