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Making a U-turn on a curve, a slope, a narrow road, a narrow bridge, or a tunnel. Making a U-turn at a road segment signed No U-turn or painted double solid yellow or white lines or no-overtaking lines. Making a U-turn at a road segment prohibiting left turn. Not surrounding a roundabout to make a U-turn in such an intersection.
Performing a three-point turn (shown for right-hand traffic). The three-point turn (sometimes called a Y-turn, K-turn, or broken U-turn) is the standard method of turning a vehicle around to face the opposite direction in a limited space, using forward and reverse gears.
The following junction types typically permit U-turns but are not designed specifically for that purpose. Normal at-grade intersections on divided highways often allow traffic traveling on the divided highway to perform a U-turn, often when there is a green light for traffic turning onto the side road, crossing the opposing lanes (left turns in countries where traffic drives on the right ...
The anti-gay signs first put up in the 1990s read 'No U-turn' to discourage men from cruising in the Silver Lake neighborhood. Now locals celebrate it's removal. Silver Lake removes last traffic ...
Two versions of signs posted along an intersecting road or street at an intersection. Top: most commonly used; state of Michigan standard. [12]Bottom: lesser-used variant. The design occurs at intersections where at least one road is a divided highway or boulevard, and left turns onto—and usually from—the divided highway are prohibited.
There should be no whitespace between the numeral and the letter X. (Note on character encoding: Although in typography (including Unicode) the letter X and the multiplication sign (×) are distinct characters with differing glyphs, it is a longstanding tradition in engineering drawing that the letter X is interchangeable with the multi sign ...
Orange painted lines are sometimes used when the direction of the road is altered temporarily for construction projects. However, the color scheme was reversed before 1971, when white was formerly used to denote the separation of opposing traffic, and yellow lines, when used, to denote the separation of the paved road from the right-hand shoulder.
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