Freeway Prohibition Signage

[Brandon]

Driving around in different states, and even into Ontario,  I've noticed several differing types of signage for the prohibition of certain types of vehicles and pedestrians on freeways.  I've never stopped to really get photos of these though.

Illinois tends to use two different types, one for IDOT and one for the Tollway.

Michigan has yet another:


How many different types are out there?

[kphoger]

Does Missouri even use these?  I recall not seeing them, but maybe they're scattered around.  Or maybe I'm just blind.

[deathtopumpkins]

I don't have and can't find a picture, but Virginia posts "PROHIBITED: [list of peds, animals, bikes, etc.]" signs.

Massachusetts posts a small sign with no symbols around ped, horse, and bike icons.[/list]

[kj3400]

I know Maryland has them. It's pretty simple: http://goo.gl/maps/Q9jJX

[vtk]

From Ohio's SDM:



The first one is 36" square, the second one 30" square.

[1995hoo]

Virginia's is fairly detailed and the print is kind of small. I don't know of a way to get a Street View link on an iPad, so I'll post a link tomorrow unless someone else beats me to it.

[Brandon]

^^ I like the prohibition on animals on the first one.  As if deer actually read.

[vtk]

I think the intention was horses, mules, maybe livestock.

[Brandon]

I think the intention was horses, mules, maybe livestock.

That's my guess too, but the wording is ambiguous and could theoretically include deer, squirrels, foxes, rabbits, etc.  It's like the signs prohibiting public defecation by animals.

[PHLBOS]

Massachusetts posts a small sign with no symbols around ped, horse, and bike icons.[/list]

Prior to their usage of the standard prohibtion symbol signage, MA used to use a single regulatory sign panel that simply read:

PEDESTRIANS
BICYCLES
HORSES
PROHIBITED

[J N Winkler]

Virginia's is fairly detailed and the print is kind of small. I don't know of a way to get a Street View link on an iPad, so I'll post a link tomorrow unless someone else beats me to it.

It's in the VDOT SHS supplement anyway (sign code R5-V2).  The word message is "NO PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLES, MOPEDS, ANIMALS, SELF-PROPELLED MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT."

Edit:  The Virginia sign, like many other states', is small and oblong vertically, being designed to be mounted on one post.  Kansas' prohibition sign is large, oblong horizontally, and used only on Interstates with very few exceptions, such as US 81 north of Salina and (I think) US 75 north of Topeka.  (Most non-Interstate full freeways in Kansas do not have prohibition signage.)

[formulanone]

I-95 in Maine; LeHay and what appears to be Futura Bold (?):

[KEK Inc.]

Why can't they just use R5-6, R9-3 and R9-14?

[NE2]

Caltrans often whites out the 'bicycles' line when they're allowed: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.581283,-122.403231&spn=0.015577,0.033023&gl=us&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=37.581353,-122.403336&panoid=dOYjOv3E4QzFQ6eNxG2S1A&cbp=12,337.66,,0,11.11

[PurdueBill]

Why can't they just use R5-6, R9-3 and R9-14?

The Mass symbolic one is basically a combination of those three.  It goes by R5-10E.

Route 128 example

[Mapmikey]

Virginia also posts no hitchhiking signs on its ramps using a thumb inside a red circle with prohibiting diagonal line.

I used to give these signs a "thumbs up" from my vehicle driving by them when I first moved to Virginia and wondered if I was violating the sign 

Mapmikey

[The High Plains Traveler]

Caltrans often whites out the 'bicycles' line when they're allowed: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.581283,-122.403231&spn=0.015577,0.033023&gl=us&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=37.581353,-122.403336&panoid=dOYjOv3E4QzFQ6eNxG2S1A&cbp=12,337.66,,0,11.11

I figured I'd get beaten to the California signage. My question always has been, WTF is a "Motor-Driven Cycle"? Obviously not just any motorcycle, but at what engine displacement are you allowed on a freeway?

[Scott5114]

For Oklahoma turnpikes (posted on the intersecting road before the junction, not on the on-ramps like most of these):


Newer ones are in proper black on white.

[route56]

Kansas' prohibition sign is large, oblong horizontally, and used only on Interstates with very few exceptions, such as US 81 north of Salina and (I think) US 75 north of Topeka.  (Most non-Interstate full freeways in Kansas do not have prohibition signage.)

I don't know about US 75 in Shawnee County, but I do know that it is used on the freeway section of K-10 in Douglas County.

Here's a sign:

38066 by Richie Kennedy, on Flickr (19 September 2009)

And a "proper" version of the Oklahoma Turnpike Regulations sign (SB I-35 @ US 412)
38601 by Richie Kennedy, on Flickr (25 November 2009)

EDIT! 1/7/17 to fix dead image links

[WillWeaverRVA]

Signage in New Jersey explicitly mentions horses, such as at this entrance to I-287 eastbound on CR 529 near South Plainfield, NJ:

[NE2]

I figured I'd get beaten to the California signage. My question always has been, WTF is a "Motor-Driven Cycle"? Obviously not just any motorcycle, but at what engine displacement are you allowed on a freeway?

AKA moped - it's a separate legal vehicle class.

[kphoger]

I think the intention was horses, mules, maybe livestock.

That's my guess too, but the wording is ambiguous and could theoretically include deer, squirrels, foxes, rabbits, etc.  It's like the signs prohibiting public defecation by animals.

I'm pretty sure it's still illegal to take a squirrel-drawn carriage onto the Interstate.  Likewise, riding a fox.

[J N Winkler]

To sketch a somewhat more quotidian scenario, it is also illegal to drive cattle, sheep, etc. down the Interstate.

[sdmichael]

I've seen PARADES listed on a prohibition sign, possibly in Tennessee.

[mtantillo]

Virginia prohibits "self-propelled machinery".  No one can really seem to describe what that means though! 

Virginia's sign used to say "PROHIBITED" and then list all the uses that were not allowed.  In line with the Federal MUTCD shift in emphasis from the word "Prohibited" to the word "No", the sign was changed from the design that has always been in use to one that says "NO" and lists all the uses that are banned.