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The official typeface for road signs in India is Transport. [2] Though sometimes, road signs may use hand-painted fonts, but some road signs in India also unofficially use Arial or Highway Gothic. Most urban roads and state highways have signs in the state language and English. National highways have signs in the state language, Hindi and English.
Road markings in Indonesia are almost similar to markings in Europe and especially in the Netherlands. Markings are divided into four types, they are: Line marking, marks that are parallel to the axis of the road. Cross marking, mark that is crosswise to the axis of the road, such as at a stop line at a Zebra cross or at an intersection
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 .
A double yellow line is a painted marking separating two lanes of a road. It consists of two parallel, solid yellow lines, and its presence indicates a two-direction no-passing restriction or no passing zone, where traffic in both directions is strictly prohibited from crossing the line to pass other traffic. [12]
Road signs in the Philippines are standardized in the Road Signs and Pavement Markings Manual, published by the Department of Public Works and Highways. Philippine road signage practice closely follow those used in Europe, but with local adaptations and some minor influences from the US MUTCD and Australian road signs.
Stop line in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan Give Way lines in the UK "Shark's teeth" yield lines (white isosceles triangles) as used in the US and many European countries. Stop and yield lines [1] are transverse road surface markings that inform drivers where they should stop or yield when approaching an intersection.
See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...
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 ...