Revisions to
Chapter 2E –
Guide Signs for
Freeways and Expressways
Guide sign legends should not exceed three
lines of destination information
4
destinations
on 8 lines
2 destinations on 2 lines
4
destinations
on 5 lines
Does not include
exit numbers, and action
or distance messages
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
?
New sections added for
signing of option lanes
• 2E.20 – Splits and multi-lane exits
with an option lane
• 2E.21 – Design of Overhead Arrowper-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
Overhead Arrow-per-Lane
guide signs
• Required at new or
reconstructed option
lane locations (major
interchanges, splits)
• Provision for
conversion from
diagrammatic (interim
gore sign location)
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 an
option 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
Exit gore conspicuity
Optional Type 1 object
markers on Exit Gore sign
supports
Narrow Exit Gore sign
Narrow gore
NOT a narrow gore
New
Chapter 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 plaques
for 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 for
HOV 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 to
Chapter 2H –
General Information Signs
(relocated from Chapters 2D and 2E)
New chapter with sections relocated
from Chapters 2D and 2E
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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
exceeds
1/3 sign area
Sign in vicinity
of decision point