Road Signs

Road Signs

Road signs are one of the most under-rated and taken for granted essentialities that we see in every day life, yet without them it would be absolute chaos. It’s pretty chaotic in some of our major cities even with them, let alone what it would be like without them. Ever been on one of Johannesburg’s urban highways between 7 and 8 in the morning or 5 and 6 in the afternoon?

Road signs do have a use and have been erected at the side of roads in order to provide information to road users. They have become more and more important as the average speed of road traffic has increased and in order to make international travel easier where language differences could otherwise create barriers there has been a tendency for countries to adopt pictorial road signs or to otherwise simplify and standardize them. Such pictorial road signs use symbols instead of words and have usually evolved as a result of international standards.

Most of today’s more common road signs were first developed in Europe, though more recently a new breed of signs has appeared in the United States and Canada. South African road signs comply with the rest of the world and are manufactured in this country by a company called Armco Signage. Armco is a company best known for the crash barriers that bear its name at motor racing circuits. Armco manufactures a fully comprehensive range of South African road signs in accordance with SADC specifications, and you can see pictures of these on their website here.

You will be able to get hold of us on: seo@etraffic.co.za

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