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Example of an original U.S. Route shield, with the state name of "Michigan" and route number of "27" displayed in the original block font. The original design of the shield was presented in the January 1927 edition of the Manual and Specifications for the Manufacture, Display, and Erection of U.S. Standard Road Markers and Signs, the precursor to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices ...
Description: This is the bicycle symbol for use on roadway/highway signage in the U.S. The image has been extracted from a pdf document and converted to svg in Adobe Illustrator CS2.
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.
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.
Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users. The earliest signs were simple wooden or stone milestones . Later, signs with directional arms were introduced, for example the fingerposts in the United Kingdom and their wooden counterparts in Saxony .
These should only be used in the article about the road. They are included in this page so that editors can more easily see what each one looks like and comment on it. Image:Chickasaw turnpike logo.svg (opened 1991) File:E-470.svg (opened 1991) Image:Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road logo.png (shield first used in 2002)
Shields for core highways in Alberta use black route number on a white squared-off bullet, while shields for local highways (500-986) use black route number on a white oval. Both variants feature the provincial wordmark across the top, although it may be omitted on certain guide signs.
A round, white Botts' dot, surrounded by excess adhesive Botts' dots on Interstate 280, near the Sand Hill Road exit, Menlo Park, California. Botts' dots (turtles in Washington and Oregon or buttons in Texas and other southern states) are round non-reflective ceramic [1] raised pavement markers.