<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 7:02 AM Andy Townsend <<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
My experience of the US is much less, but what I would say is that <br>
signage there is more likely to be just text, and that text may be <br>
complicated. Parking signs are an example of this (and a bit of a trope <br>
there - see e.g. <br>
<a href="http://www.mikeontraffic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/parking_regs.gif" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.mikeontraffic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/parking_regs.gif</a> ).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In the US, the situation is improving. Restriction signs are mostly all pictographs, so word legends are going away as signs hit the end of their functional life.</div><div><br></div><div>The default per FHWA is that a way is open to all modes of travel except when otherwise posted, be it a cycleway to a freeway and everything in between. In practice, some states actually subscribe to this (the west coast states operate this way in terms of access), but others have weird rules you just have to know and don't appear anywhere except in the state laws (getting more rare but still happens; like in Oklahoma where pedestrians are bicycles are prohibited due to a minimum posted speed limit, but you have no way of knowing there's a minimum speed limit until you've been on the road for some time...).</div></div></div>