UK-style chevron signage in US

[KEK Inc.]

How often do we see this in the US? 

http://goo.gl/maps/eY6zL

http://goo.gl/maps/3PxKj

[Brandon]

Kalamazoo, Michigan:



It seems to be at traffic circles..er..roundabouts most often.  I'm not a fan.

[NE2]

How's this? Probably installed in 1978 when Downtown Crossing was closed to cars.




And this mutha, from before the mid-1970s.


all from http://www.flickr.com/photos/41203461@N00/

[seicer]

There are several in Lexington, Kentucky, notably at roundabouts. I wish we had more.

[formulanone]

The roads near Legoland in Carlsbad, California have some:





There's also roundabout with similarly European-looking signage:

[on_wisconsin]

And this mutha, from before the mid-1970s.

It that Transport typeface as well? 

[J N Winkler]

The term of art for what the OP calls "chevron signs" (not to be confused with curve chevrons, which are also used in Britain, or the chevron pattern on roundabout aprons, which in Britain has the standing of a traffic sign in its own right) is "flag sign."  Arizona DOT has been using British-style flag signs (minus the 60° angle on the chevron end of the sign panel) at newly constructed roundabouts.  The chamfered arms on the roundabout diagrammatics, which in Britain are called "map-type advance direction signs," are also used in Arizona, but not all examples have the 90° chamfer used in Britain--some have had chamfer angles as acute as 60°.  In Britain this element of a map-type sign is called a "stub arm."

Flag and map-type signs have also been experimented with in Colorado (I-70 corridor--Avon exit, if memory serves), Ohio (Franklin County), Ontario, and other US states and Canadian provinces.

[KEK Inc.]

And this mutha, from before the mid-1970s.

It that Transport typeface as well? 

Looks like it!  The C-28, C-9 is also a British standard as well, though it's strange...  I'm not sure why it says C, when they're state routes.

[J N Winkler]

The C-28, C-9 is also a British standard as well, though it's strange...

Actually they aren't--A, B, or M is the standard.  C-roads are technically a type of unclassified road which used to get (and may still get) grant at a preferential rate, but they were not and are not supposed to appear on signs.  This is why British road enthusiasts hunt for instances of their being explicitly signed.

[english si]

The term of art for what the OP calls "chevron signs" (not to be confused with curve chevrons, which are also used in Britain, or the chevron pattern on roundabout aprons, which in Britain has the standing of a traffic sign in its own right) is "flag sign."

Indeed. I was expecting this thread to be about these kind of signs, not flag signs.

I hadn't considered the painted brick markings on some roundabouts (also note the use of what JNW calls 'curve chevrons' - which knowing him will be the correct term - many, or even most-but-not-all, roundabouts have those).

[Brandon]

And this mutha, from before the mid-1970s.
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It that Transport typeface as well? 

Looks like it!  The C-28, C-9 is also a British standard as well, though it's strange...  I'm not sure why it says C, when they're state routes.

M-28 and M-9 would've made more sense as that is in Massachusetts.

Transport is one of the few typefaces that makes Clearview look good. 

[NE2]

Guys... C-* were city routes. They disappeared in the 1970s, with 9 and 28 returning to downtown.
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~212215~5500292:Shell-Map-of-Metropolitan-Boston-an?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~212217~5500293:Downtown-Boston--Sightseeing-Guide-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No
Note how 28 followed the bypass, with C28 through downtown, while 9 became C9 at the bypass.

One reassurance sign survives for C1 and C9:

from http://ramblingbostonian.blogspot.com/2012/05/weekend-of-roads.html

[agentsteel53]

Flag and map-type signs have also been experimented with in Colorado (I-70 corridor--Avon exit, if memory serves), Ohio (Franklin County), Ontario, and other US states and Canadian provinces.

I recall Vail, CO as well, and maybe another exit?  (CO-82?)  definitely all along the 70 corridor, west of Denver.

[PurdueBill]

Those Colorado 7/US 85 signs are really bonkers considering the white backgrounds...the US 85 shields blend right in.

My father is old enough to still call the Boston C routes the C names.  They disappeared before my time so I never learned their routings personally.

[cpzilliacus]

Swedish variant :

Finnish variant (green because this points to a motorway or super-2 entrance):

[Alps]

Not the US, but Prince Edward Island used to use chevrons for its guide signing.

[agentsteel53]

Not the US, but Prince Edward Island used to use chevrons for its guide signing.

a lot of places have in the past.



I have a sign similar to this from Washington.  North Carolina used a non-cutout white chevron-style until about a few years ago.

[formulanone]

North Carolina used a non-cutout white chevron-style until about a few years ago.

They're all over in the rural NC, and I like the fact they seem to be hand-painted.

[Alps]

Oh, that reminds me.

[mukade]

The original freeway exit number tabs were not rectangles (I-94 in Michigan):

[Brandon]

The original freeway exit number tabs were not rectangles (I-94 in Michigan):

But, unlike some states, they were distance-based from the start.  That's still Exit 39 to this very day, and still for Millburg and Coloma.  I think the bridge is still the same one as well (this photo is looking eastbound, by the way).

[KEK Inc.]

North Carolina used a non-cutout white chevron-style until about a few years ago.

They're all over in the rural NC, and I like the fact they seem to be hand-painted.

Those are common in Clark County, WA.

[NE2]

The original freeway exit number tabs were not rectangles (I-94 in Michigan):

Original? Got a photo of one of NYC's parkways from 1938?

[Road Hog]

And this mutha, from before the mid-1970s.

It that Transport typeface as well? 

I'd love to know the story behind this sign. Was there some sort of US/UK "sign exchange"?

[empirestate]

The original freeway exit number tabs were not rectangles (I-94 in Michigan):

Original? Got a photo of one of NYC's parkways from 1938?

Closest I got was this: