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Signs with a yellow background warn drivers to have an increased level of awareness about the content they display. Signs with a yellow background are warning signs. For example, posted speed limits or no parking signs could result in fines if disobeyed. Failure to obey signs with a white background is against the law and is a ticketable offence. We are required by law to follow and obey these signs. Signs with a white background are regulatory signs. Knowing what each colour means will help direct your attention to the different signs when and where you need it. The background colour of road signs are intentional and the different colours represent different content. Crossbucks may also be supplemented with additional warnings like flashing lights, bells and/or a gate that descends to prevent traffic from crossing the railroad tracks when trains are present. A Crossbuck means yield and only requires stopping when a train is present. The Big X is called a crossbuck and they are used to indicate railway crossings. It’s unique shape allows drivers travelling in the opposite direction to easily idenitfy it and therefore determine when the school zone is no longer in effect. This pentagon or “house” shape sign represents our school zone sign. Have you ever noticed the 4-way hazard signal in your vehicle is also an upside-down yield sign? Again, this serves as a warning for other road users. Drivers may see the upside-down yield sign when vehicles break down on the side of a road.

When this sign is displayed it means ‘caution’. Less common to see is a regular triangle shape with the same configuration of colours as the yield sign. Yield signs also mean that a driver may proceed without stopping - provided that it is safe to do so. Yield means you must give the right of way to other road users. The inverted triangle represents our yield sign. As drivers, when we appraoch a stop sign we are required to make a full STOP! The octagon shape is unique to stop signs, no other sign has this shape. Some signs on our roadways have a unique shape that no other sign has, these signs are classfied as unique purpose regulatory signs and include: The shape of a sign is one of the easiest ways to decipher a sign.

#UPSIDEDOWN TRAIN SKETCH HOW TO#

In this post, we’ll outline the 3 ways we can read and interpret our road signs and how to identify some of the more unique road signs in British Columbia.

How is your road sign knowledge? Do you know the 3 ways to identify signs? Road signs are everywhere! In fact we’re often bombarded with so many different signs we tend to become numb to them.

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