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Street name sign. Road name sign of East Chang'an Avenue, Beijing. Bilingual road name sign in Fort William, Scotland, in both Scottish Gaelic and English. A street name sign is a type of traffic sign used to identify named roads, generally those that do not qualify as expressways or highways. Street name signs are most often found posted at ...
A bilingual sign in Macau with street name in both Chinese and Portuguese. A street name is an identifying name given to a street or road. In toponymic terminology, names of streets and roads are referred to as odonyms or hodonyms (from Ancient Greek ὁδός hodós 'road', and ὄνυμα ónuma 'name', i.e., the Doric and Aeolic form of ...
There are many types of street name signs in New York City. The standard format is a green sign in all-capital letters, with the suffix abbreviated and in superscript. Many signs deviate from the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices standards, especially in historic districts and in Midtown Manhattan and the Financial District .
From its founding in 1847, Atlanta has had a penchant for frequent street renamings, even in the central business district, usually to honor the recently deceased.As early as 1903 (see section below), there were concerns about the confusion this caused, as "more than 225 streets of Atlanta have had from two to eight names" in the first decades of the city.
Named for the Lenape word meaning "in the valley; in the Valleys." [9] Philmont Ave. Named for the county line between Philadelphia and Montgomery counties, which it runs along for part of its route ( Phil + Mont ). Pine Street. One of William Penn 's streets named for trees, this one was named for the pine tree .
Street signs in Chicago. A street sign for Archer Avenue in Chinatown; the sign indicates that this location is south of Madison Street. A sign for 26th Street at an intersection with a stoplight. It is much bigger, and includes the street's numerical position – 2600 S – in Chicago's grid. Street name signs in Chicago are green with white text.
Signs including Stop, Yield, No Turns, No Trucks, No Parking, No Stopping, Minimum Speed, Right Turn Only, Do Not Enter, Weight Limit, and Speed Limit are considered regulatory signs. Some have special shapes, such as the octagon for the Stop sign and the crossbuck for railroad crossings.
After the 2009 inauguration following the 2008 election, vandals covered signs throughout the street's length with "Obama" stickers; some signs were also vandalized shortly after Obama's victory. A man was charged in the 1988 incident, and San Francisco city officials stressed the cost of removing the stickers in the 2009 incident.