Thread by @lycheecola

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https://twitter.com/everylotmtl/status/1395902016166170627

"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

https://twitter.com/everylot_usps/status/1399918459992088576

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

https://twitter.com/imagineterrain/status/1408457544541085701

A Dead End Street sign in the old Bureau of Public Roads font

https://twitter.com/everylotboston/status/1410369067484069892

End Peel St. detour, begin rue Peel detour?

A road sign with an arrow made from an em dash and a greater than?

https://twitter.com/DeadCarWalking/status/1417147816166690819/

Another sign for angle parking, San Antonio de Areco

https://twitter.com/lycheecola/status/1273307165797740544

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.

Ends

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https://twitter.com/Union_Tpke/status/1424544011570884622

Another "right turn on red permitted" sign, this one from Uzbekistan

https://twitter.com/lycheecola/status/1172194216610418688

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

https://twitter.com/everylotboston/status/1443580409539817480/

More of the blocky old Uruguayan road sign font

https://twitter.com/lycheecola/status/1299084062456336384

Overhead gantry-mounted village entrance signs in Uruguay

White-on-black No Right Turn sign from the 1972 Columbo episode Étude in Black