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The following are samples of Quebec road signs. [9] [10] [11] A notable difference between Quebec road signs and those of the rest of Canada is Quebec's use of a white chevron on a red background to mark road alignment around a curve, whereas the remainder of the country employs a black chevron on a yellow background.
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The following 48 pages use this file: Comparison of traffic signs in English-speaking territories; Crossing guard; Road signs in Canada; Visual rhetoric
Signs in some parts of Canada and Mexico near the US border often include both metric and Imperial units, to remind US drivers that they are entering metric countries. In Canada, these signs display the imperial speed limit using a Canadian-style sign, rather than an MUTCD-standard used in the US. [8] No such equivalent exists in the US.
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. Detours use black on a shade of yellow or orange.
These signs are often temporary in nature and used to indicate road work (construction), poor roads, or temporary conditions ahead on the road including flagmen, uneven pavement, etc. (Note that some "high water" signs are posted to alert drivers of a flood-prone area and do not actually mean that there is a flooded section of road ahead.)
Its usage is mandated by the Interministerial Instruction on Road Signs and Signals (Instruction Interministérielle sur la Signalisation Routière) [6] Carretera convencional Directorate-General for Traffic Road signs in Spain: Proprietary typeface commissioned for this purpose, used on intracity road signs. Derived from the Transport typeface.
This is a comparison of road signs in countries and regions that speak majorly English, including major ones where it is an official language and widely understood (and as a lingua franca). Among the countries listed below, Liberia , Nigeria , and the Philippines have ratified the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals , while the United ...