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"Y" sign, Quimilí, Santiago del Estero
Old wayfinding/distance signs with patches from the change to alphanumeric route markings, Emerald, Queensland
Sign for a median cut to allow gas trucks to turn left into a gas station, Lares, PR
Overhead directional sign in Johannesburg, from before the change from the FHWA to DIN font, but with icons and modern arrow-per-lane signage.
Inexplicable route shield for the M93 on the M37, Germiston. I think I read somewhere that the shape of the shield is based on a pre-colonial armor design. The italic initial on the bottom is the cardinal direction in English/Afrikaans.
More South African route shields, these for the N12 South and the R62 East/Oos
Some faded older South African route shields, these in the FHWA font instead of DIN. Unlike the later ones, the FHWA shields didn't use italics for the cardinal direction.
Fun fact
One-way arrow, Eswatini
Adopt A Highway sign, Snug, Tasmania
Some analog video shots of East German autobahn signage
A Dead End Street sign in the old Bureau of Public Roads font
End Peel St. detour, begin rue Peel detour?
A road sign with an arrow made from an em dash and a greater than?
Another sign for angle parking, San Antonio de Areco
Trilingual Hungarian/English/German road sign, Budapest, 1977
Possible vintage FHWA Series A sighting!? (“Pedestrians”). The sign looks old enough that it could have been installed before Series A was outlawed.
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Another "right turn on red permitted" sign, this one from Uzbekistan
A small Dead End sign with dazzle pattern, near Grande Prairie, AB
A nonlingual temporary weight restriction sign near Grand Prairie
No Parking and Parking Permitted signs along a one-way street in Gálvez, Santa Fe Province
Borderless diamond-shaped white-on-green "No Thru Route" sign, St Mary, Missouri
Repurposed stop sign, Josefina, Santa Fe Province
Non-MUTCD "Slow" sign in Franklin Gothic
More of the blocky old Uruguayan road sign font
Overhead gantry-mounted village entrance signs in Uruguay
White-on-black No Right Turn sign from the 1972 Columbo episode Étude in Black
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