Revisions to Chapter 2E – Guide Signs for Freeways and Expressways

Revisions to Chapter 2E –

Guide Signs forFreeways and Expressways

Guide sign legends should not exceed three lines of destination information

Does not includeexit numbers, and action

or distance messages

4 destinations

on 8 lines

4 destinations

on 5 lines

2 destinations on 2 lines

New requirement for minimum freeway and expressway guide sign

and plaque sizes

Longer commonly-used words may be abbreviated

Down arrows over center of lane required for guide signs

• Approximate center of lane• Arrow must point vertically down• Arrow and sign above applicable

lane• Arrow clearly relates to lane

Avoid ambiguous placement of down arrow

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New sections added forsigning of option lanes

• 2E.20 – Splits and multi-lane exits with an option lane

• 2E.21 – Design of Overhead Arrow- per-Lane signs

• 2E.22 – Design of freeway and expressway diagrammatic signs

• 2E.23 – Signing for intermediate and minor interchange multi-lane exits with an option lane

New Overhead Arrow-per-Lane signs for option-lane exits and splits feature an upward-pointing arrow over each lane

• Required at new or reconstructed option lane locations (major interchanges, splits)

• Provision for conversion from diagrammatic (interim gore sign location)

Overhead Arrow-per-Laneguide signs

Freeway and expressway diagrammatic signs

• Existing concept retained

• Limited to locations with an option lane

• Limited to existing facilities only

Intermediate and minor interchange

multi-lane exits with option lane

Permissive down arrow: Dedicated or option lane?

For lane drops without an option lane, an EXIT ONLY panel with a down arrow(s) is now required on all overhead advance guide signs

For lane drops without anoption lane, the Exit Direction sign

shall have an EXIT ONLY panel with an upward diagonal arrow

Eisenhower Interstate System signs

New requirement for exit numbering by reference location

Space required between the number and letter

LEFT plaques required for numbered and non-numbered

exits to the left

An advisory speed legend may be added to an Exit Direction sign

Optional Type 1 object markers on Exit Gore sign

supports

Exit gore conspicuity

Narrow Exit Gore sign

Narrow gore NOT a narrow gore

NewChapter 2F –

Toll Road Signs

Purple background and underlay panels with ETC account pictographs

• Only for portion of sign displaying ETC registration requirement

• NOT for destinations or other uses

New regulatory plaquesfor toll plazas

Toll Rate sign

Limited to three lines of text unless used at toll booths where vehicles

must stop

New toll road warning signs and plaques

New TOLL auxiliary sign for entrances to toll

routes

New ETC account-only auxiliary sign

New guide signs and optional symbols for toll plaza canopies

Required over the center of each toll lane

Advance signs for conventional toll plazas

Guide signs for toll plazas and open-road ETC lanes

New Chapter 2G – Preferential and Managed

Lane Signs(relocated from Chapter 2B)

New and revised post-mounted and overhead regulatory signs for

preferential lanes

New plaque

New signs forHOV lanes that become general-purpose lanes

(occupancy requirement ends, but the lane continues)

New guide signs for preferential lanes

New signs for priced managed lanes

New regulatory signs for priced managed lanes

New toll rate signs for priced managed lanes

New signs for managed lanes — comparative travel times

New guide signs for priced managed lanes

Revisions toChapter 2H –

General Information Signs(relocated from Chapters 2D and 2E)

New chapter with sections relocated from Chapters 2D and 2E

• Traffic signal speed sign• Reference location signs• Other I-series general information signs• Memorial signing• Auto tour route signs• Acknowledgement signs

Size of Traffic Signal Speed sign increased from 12” x 18” to 24” x 36”

Changeable message element permitted for varying the progression speed

Shields and trailblazer assemblies for designated auto tour routes

(formerly trail signs)

• Auto Tour Route signs designed in accordance with provisions for route signs

• Independent assemblies allowed on freeways between discontinuous segments

New Vehicle Ferry Terminal sign

New provisions for the design and use of acknowledgement signs

Logo area exceeds1/3 sign area

Sign in vicinity of decision point