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600 mm by 750 mm (24 in by 30 in) Bus Lane sign, made to the specifications of the 2004 edition of Standard Highway Signs (sign R3-5). Uses the Roadgeek 2005 fonts archive copy at the Wayback Machine. (United States law does not permit the copyrighting of typeface designs, and the fonts are meant to be copies of a U.S. Government-produced work ...
Some signs can be localized, such as No Parking, and some are found only in state and local jurisdictions, as they are based on state or local laws, such as New York City's "Don't Block the Box" signs. These signs are in the R series of signs in the MUTCD and typically in the R series in most state supplements or state MUTCDs.
The lane will usually be painted with a lozenge at a regular interval, and signage will be installed to indicate the restrictions on using the lane. This marking is most often used to denote high-occupancy vehicle lanes or bus lanes , with accompanying signage reading " HOV LANE" or " BUS LANE" and giving the requirements for a vehicle to be ...
Signs in the MUTCD are often more text-oriented, though some signs do use pictograms as well. Canada and Australia have road signs based substantially on the MUTCD. In South America, Ireland, several Asian countries (Cambodia, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia) and New Zealand, road signage is influenced by both the Vienna Convention and ...
Prohibitory and restrictive signs are classified as regulatory signs. Almost all prohibitory signs use a red circle with a slash. Restrictive signs typically use a red circle, as in Europe. Some may be seated on a rectangular white background. The original MUTCD prohibitory and restrictive signs were text-only (i.e. NO LEFT TURN). [14]
A bus lane road sign in Indonesia, using Highway Gothic Indonesia formerly used the typeface from 1993 until 2014, regulated by Ministry of Transportation's law No. 62 year 1993. [ 14 ] However, in 2014, Ministry of Transportation passed a regulation to introduce new road signs , being replaced with the new Clearview typeface.
A bus lane or bus-only lane is a lane restricted to buses, generally to speed up public transport that would be otherwise held up by traffic congestion. The related term busway describes a roadway completely dedicated for use by buses, whilst bus gate describes a short bus lane often used as a short cut for public transport.
A diagrammatic sign or diagrammatic guide sign is a type of guide sign that indicates destinations using a large, map-like illustration of the road layout. The term is most commonly associated with diagrammatic signs installed ahead of forks in controlled-access highways to indicate the destination of each lane.