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There is no official typeface for road signs in India. Typically, road signs may use hand-painted fonts, but some road signs in India use Arial, Highway Gothic or Transport. [citation needed] Most urban roads and state highways have signs in the state language and English. National highways have signs in the state language, Hindi and English.
Exit numbers in the United States. Exit numbers in the United States are assigned to freeway junctions, and are usually numbered as exits from freeways. Exit numbers generally are found above the destinations and route number (s) at the exit, as well as a sign in the gore. Exit numbers typically reset at political borders such as state lines.
Traffic sign. A "route confirmation" sign on the Warrego Highway in Queensland, Australia, informing motorists of their distance (in kilometres) from the places listed. Fingerposts and other road signage in the English village of Sturminster Marshall, near Poole. Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to ...
Signs including Stop, Yield, No Turns, No Trucks, No Parking, No Stopping, Minimum Speed, Right Turn Only, Do Not Enter, Weight Limit, and Speed Limit are considered regulatory signs. Some have special shapes, such as the octagon for the Stop sign and the crossbuck for railroad crossings.
On a road with distance-based exit numbering, the exit number (shown here on a gore sign) matches a nearby mile or kilometer marker. Puerto Rico is the only place in the United States that uses Spanish like the "Salida 5B" sign. An exit number is a number assigned to a road junction, usually an exit from a freeway.
See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...
Local traffic road signs usually employ black text on white. Exceptions are the Czech Republic (yellow-on-black), Finland (white-on-black), Austria and Spain (white-on-green), as well as Denmark, Iceland and Poland (blue-on-white). Tourist sighting signs usually employ white on some shade of brown.
No trucks over 5 tons, nonstandard lettering Cullom Ave, One way signs in Chicago, Illinois. One-way traffic (or uni-directional traffic) is traffic that moves in a single direction. A one-way street is a street either facilitating only one-way traffic, or designed to direct vehicles to move in one direction. One-way streets typically result in ...