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Street name sign

Street name sign

Type of traffic sign used to identify named roads 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 intersections; sometimes, especially in the United States, in perpendicularly oriented pairs identifying each of the crossing streets. Description Cast aluminium City of Oxford street nameplate - manufactured by The Royal Label Factory Trilingual street name signs in the Serbian, Slovak, and Hungarian languages, in the village of Belo Blato, Serbia Standard sign, New York City Different boroughs in London have their own designs for street name signs. These examples also include part of the postcode (WC2). Modern street nameplates (name signs) may be mounted in various ways, such as attached to walls or on utility poles or smaller purpose-made sign poles posted on a streetcorner, or hung over intersections from overhead supports like wires or pylons. When attached to poles, they may be stacked onto each other in alt