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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 ...
Regulatory signs. Regulatory signs give instructions to motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists. 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.
The polar bear warning sign in Svalbard recently changed from displaying a black bear on white background to a white bear on black background (both signs are triangular with a red border). Some countries (like France, Norway and Spain) that normally use a white background have adopted an orange or amber background for road work or construction ...
Class of sign Shape Ground Border Size Symbol Examples Danger warning sign: Equilateral triangle: White or yellow: Red: 0.9 m (large), 0.6 m (small) Varies; Black or dark blue: Diamond: Yellow: Black: 0.6 m (large), 0.4 m (small) Varies; Black or dark blue: Priority signs Give Way sign: Inverted equilateral triangle: White or yellow: Red: 0.9 m ...
Mandatory signs are road signs that are used to set the obligations of all traffic that uses a specific area of road. Most mandatory road signs are circular, and may use white symbols on a blue background with a white border, or black symbols on a white background with a red border, although the latter is also associated with prohibitory signs.
Embossed white serial on black plate with border line; "KAN. '38" centered at bottom none: 1-12345 10-1234 100-123 Coded by county of issuance (1, 10 or 100) 1939 Embossed black serial on white plate with border line; "'39 KAN." centered at top none: 1-12345 10-1234 100-123 Coded by county of issuance (1, 10 or 100) 1940
Overtaking is prohibited either for all vehicles or for certain kinds of vehicles only (e.g. lorries, motorcycles). In the USA, this is usually phrased as "no passing zone" and indicated by a rectangular, black-on-white sign on the right side of the road that says "DO NOT PASS", and/or by a solid yellow line painted on the roadway marking the left limit of traffic (centerline), and sometimes ...
Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations. Segregation was the legally or socially enforced separation of African Americans from whites, as well as the separation of other ethnic minorities from majority ...