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

This revision to Chapter 2E introduces new requirements and additions for guide signs on freeways and expressways. It includes updates to sign sizes, arrow placement, signing of option lanes, overhead arrow-per-lane signs, exit numbering, toll road signs, preferential and managed lane signs, general information signs, and more.

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

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  1. Revisions to Chapter 2E – Guide Signs forFreeways and Expressways

  2. Guide sign legends should not exceed three lines of destination information Does not includeexit numbers, and action or distance messages 4 destinationson 8 lines 2 destinations on 2 lines 4 destinationson 5 lines

  3. New requirement for minimum freeway and expressway guide sign and plaque sizes

  4. Longer commonly-used words may be abbreviated

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

  8. Overhead Arrow-per-Laneguide signs • Required at new or reconstructed option lane locations (major interchanges, splits) • Provision for conversion from diagrammatic (interim gore sign location)

  9. Freeway and expressway diagrammatic signs • Existing concept retained • Limited to locations with an option lane • Limited to existing facilities only

  10. Intermediate and minor interchange multi-lane exits with option lane Permissive down arrow:Dedicated or option lane?

  11. 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

  12. For lane drops without anoption lane, the Exit Direction sign shall have an EXIT ONLY panel with an upward diagonal arrow

  13. Eisenhower Interstate System signs

  14. New requirement for exit numbering by reference location Space required between the number and letter

  15. LEFT plaques required for numbered and non-numbered exits to the left

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

  17. Optional Type 1 object markers on Exit Gore sign supports Exit gore conspicuity

  18. Narrow Exit Gore sign NOT a narrow gore Narrow gore

  19. NewChapter 2F – Toll Road Signs

  20. Purple background and underlay panels with ETC account pictographs • Only for portion of sign displaying ETC registration requirement • NOT for destinations or other uses

  21. New regulatory plaquesfor toll plazas

  22. Toll Rate sign Limited to three lines of text unless used at toll booths where vehicles must stop

  23. New toll road warning signs and plaques

  24. New TOLL auxiliary sign for entrances to toll routes

  25. New ETC account-only auxiliary sign

  26. New guide signs and optional symbols for toll plaza canopies Required over the center of each toll lane

  27. Advance signs for conventional toll plazas

  28. Guide signs for toll plazas and open-road ETC lanes

  29. New Chapter 2G – Preferential and Managed Lane Signs(relocated from Chapter 2B)

  30. New and revised post-mounted and overhead regulatory signs for preferential lanes New plaque

  31. New signs forHOV lanes that become general-purpose lanes (occupancy requirement ends, but the lane continues)

  32. New guide signs for preferential lanes

  33. New signs for priced managed lanes

  34. New regulatory signs for priced managed lanes

  35. New toll rate signs for priced managed lanes

  36. New signs for managed lanes — comparative travel times

  37. New guide signs for priced managed lanes

  38. Revisions toChapter 2H – General Information Signs(relocated from Chapters 2D and 2E)

  39. 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

  40. Size of Traffic Signal Speed sign increased from 12” x 18” to 24” x 36” Changeable message element permitted for varying the progression speed

  41. 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

  42. New Vehicle Ferry Terminal sign

  43. New provisions for the design and use of acknowledgement signs Logo area exceeds1/3 sign area Sign in vicinity of decision point

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