Definition of Traffic Sign
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Jan. 2015
Traffic signs are those posters that swarm in quantities through streets, routes and roads, among others and that have the purpose of ordering vehicular traffic, the circulation of pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists, among others.
They basically contain important information and act as our guide on the streets or routes to indicate how we should behave, from the role we occupy, to circulate through them correctly, safely and avoid any type of road accident that could cost us our lives or any other being with whom we let's cross.
Unfortunately today the accidents Traffickings that take the lives of pedestrians, motorcyclists, and motorists reach staggering numbers. Negligence, inattention because you are attentive to mobile devices such as cell phones, or simply the imprudence, among others, are some of the causes of this scourge and therefore it is essential that the authorities in charge of the area and from the media communication mass install the theme and spread the
I respect by these signs. This will directly contribute to having a street, a safer route ...It should also be noted that traffic signs are universal, that is, they are composed of symbols of a universal nature and do not depend for their understanding on the knowledge of this or that. language. Any individual can understand them whether they are circulating in their country or in another.
There are many traffic signs and then for your teaching and knowledge is that they appear grouped in various categories...
On one side are the regulatory that can communicate: prohibition, restriction or priority: parking prohibited, vehicle length limitation, exclusive circulation of bicycles, respectively.
Then we meet the signs preventive which are subdivided into extremely dangerous and physical (they indicate some special characteristic of the road or route), for example, railroad crossing and winding road, respectively.
And finally there are the signs informative that inform the cities of destinations, distances or characteristics of the roads, tourist information and information on services.
And although they are not always present because they depend on a specific fact, there are the so-called signals transitory that have the mission of warning about the realization of some work of building or from maintenance.
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