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Sign to direct traffic at an entrance to the AL-12 road in Almería. Road signs in Spain are regulated in the Instrucción de Carreteras Norma 8.1-IC [1] as well as the Catálogo de señales verticales de circulación. [2] They conform to the general pattern of those used in most other European countries.
Roads can be motorways, expressways or other routes. In many countries, expressways share the same colour as primary routes, but there are some exceptions where they share the colour of motorways (Austria, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden) or have their own colour (the countries comprising former Yugoslavia employ white text on blue specifically for expressways).
Road signs in Bolivia are regulated by the Manuales Técnicos para el Diseño de Carreteras standard which is based on the United States' MUTCD (FHWA), Central America's Manuales Técnicos para el Diseño de Carreteras (SICA), Colombia's Manual de Señalización Vial (Ministry of Transport), and Chile's Manual de Carreteras. [3]
The inscriptions on road signs are written in Spanish since it is an official language of Puerto Rico and is most widely spoken in Puerto Rico. [ 3 ] The suffix (D) in parentheses means "right", from Spanish derecha , while the (I) in parentheses means "left", from Spanish izquierda .
Pedestrian sign in Mexico. The road signs used in Mexico are regulated by Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportes ' s Directorate-General for Roads (Dirección General de Carreteras), and uniformized under a NOM standard and the Manual de Señalización y Dispositivos para el Control del Tránsito en Calles y Carreteras (Manual of Signage and Traffic Control Devices for ...
The word roundabout dates from early 20th-century use in the United Kingdom. [1] A roundabout is also a traditional English name given to amusement rides known as a carousel, or a merry-go-round in other English-speaking countries. In U.S. dictionaries the terms roundabout, traffic circle, road circle and rotary are synonyms. [38]
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 .
Under the Vienna Convention the begin and end built-up area signs imply a change between built-up area and rural traffic rules including speed limit. In many European countries the dark background with light coloured text version of the sign is intended for information only. [ 16 ]