bilingual street blades in USA

[mapman1071]

What cities or regions in the US have bilingual street blades?

[cl94]

Of all places, Buffalo has some in the "Irish Heritage District" in South Buffalo (mainly along Abbott Road). English is white on blue, Gaelic is black on white.

New Orleans has them in the French Quarter (English and French), with some plaques on buildings giving names in Spanish as well.

[Big John]

Leavenworth, WA has a very German motif and has bilingual signs https://www.google.com/maps/@47.597678,-120.656616,3a,75y,178.64h,82.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNjLqrWSa4AwhXA1_BcHq1g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[M3019C LPS20]

Chinatown in lower Manhattan has street signs in Chinese and English. The Chinese characters are normally in small print and below the English letters of the street name.

[KEK Inc.]

Nearly every Chinatown in the country. 

[roadman65]

Miami for US 41.  Its 8th Street, which translates to Calle Ocho in Spanish and has both names along with Tamiami Trail on some of the street signs.

[kurumi]

Related thread: Special (non-standard-English) characters on placename signs

[jbnv]

Lafayette, Louisiana, has had signs in French primary with English secondary. (I don't live there currently so I don't know whether they still have such signs.)



The Tlingit center in Saxman, Alaska has signs translated into their native language.

[Brandon]

Hancock, Michigan has their street blades in English and Finnish.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Burlington, VT wants to put up bilingual signs but I don't know if they've actually done it yet.

BGSes on I-87 through Clinton County in NY are bilingual English/French.

Lafayette, Louisiana, has had signs in French primary with English secondary. (I don't live there currently so I don't know whether they still have such signs.)

Yup. They still do it.

[sipes23]

It's not the US, but the Danforth in Toronto has supplemental blades in Greek.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.678935,-79.344694,3a,15y,325.4h,97.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suniWZ0ik8n5Na0V-6H_eIA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[US71]

Tahlequah, OK

[hbelkins]

Quite a few along US 19 near Cherokee, NC. Here's one:

[Bluenoser]

The northern Maine town of Grand Isle, where many of the residents are of Acadian descent, have bilingual English/French street blades, here's one example:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@47.305239,-68.15167,3a,15y,307.29h,86.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNOBG4TwwxLkTAQiQRxybFw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

[SignGeek101]

The northern Maine town of Grand Isle, where many of the residents are of Acadian descent, have bilingual English/French street blades, here's one example:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@47.305239,-68.15167,3a,15y,307.29h,86.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNOBG4TwwxLkTAQiQRxybFw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

That stop sign is positioned waay too far back IMO.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

The northern Maine town of Grand Isle, where many of the residents are of Acadian descent, have bilingual English/French street blades, here's one example:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@47.305239,-68.15167,3a,15y,307.29h,86.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNOBG4TwwxLkTAQiQRxybFw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

I believe this is true of many towns in northern Aroostook County where some towns have a majority French-speaking population.

[Scott5114]

Not a street blade, but...


There are several of these around the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, OK. None of the other traffic signs are in Chickasaw, which is a good thing because the traffic control there is already really confusing and badly done.

[SidS1045]

BGSes on I-87 through Clinton County in NY are bilingual English/French.

[vdeane]

Most of them look more like this:

[SignGeek101]

Most of them look more like this:

What's the point of having a bilingual exit tab, but not on the cardinal direction on the main BGS?

[vdeane]

Most of them look more like this:

What's the point of having a bilingual exit tab, but not on the cardinal direction on the main BGS?

That's a very good question.

[US71]

Lafayette, Louisiana, has had signs in French primary with English secondary. (I don't live there currently so I don't know whether they still have such signs.)

They alternate from French first, English second to English first, French second.

[NJ]

New York State: