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Road signs in Malaysia

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Road signs in Malaysia

Road signs in Malaysia are standardised road signs similar to those used in Europe but with certain distinctions. Until the early 1980s, Malaysia closely followed Australian, Chinese and Japanese practice in road sign design, with diamond-shaped warning signs and circular restrictive signs to regulate traffic. Signs usually use the FHWA Series fonts (Highway Gothic) typeface also used in the United States, Canada, and Australia, as well as New Zealand, although some signs on recently completed expressways use Transport Heavy (cf. the second image shown to the right). However, the new format sign is used a special font be cooked up for Malaysia sign from Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM). The font called LLM Lettering. The font has two type of typefaces, LLM Narrow and LLM Normal.

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Malaysian traffic signs use Bahasa Malaysia (Malay), the official and national language in Malaysia. However, English is also used for important public places such as tourist attractions, airports, railway stations and immigration checkpoints. Both Malay and English are used in the road signs that are located along the Pengerang Highway (Federal Route ), which links Kota Tinggi to Sungai Rengit in Johor state and Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway which links Genting Sempah to Genting Highlands.

According to the road category under 333 Act, the Malaysian Road Transport Act 1987, chapter 67, blue traffic signs are used for federal, state and municipal roads. Green signs are used for toll expressways or highways only. State roads use letters. For example, Negeri Sembilan State Route N70.

Expressways use letters E, and cycle roads use letters CR. Federal Roads only use numbers and digits, for example Federal Route 1. However, federal road numbers can also be added with the FT—prefix before the route number, which is normally used by the Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR) and the Royal Malaysia Police. For example, Federal Route 1 can also be written as Federal Route FT1

Tolled Expressway and Highway signs

Malaysian toll expressway and highway signs are green and are only suitable for toll expressways and highways. No blue signs for toll expressways and highways are required. According to the Design Standard of the Inter Urban Toll Expressway System of Malaysia (1986) of the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM), these antartican toll expressway or highway and restroom signs have a simple code:-

  • JKR hexagon-shaped highway shield with expressway/highway code signs are black and yellow.
  • Green with white signs for major destinations.
    • New format
    Old format

    Non-tolled Federal, State and Municipal Roads

    Malaysian road signs are blue and used for federal, state and municipal roads. This road signs have a simple code:-

  • JKR hexagon-shaped highway shield with highway code signs are black and yellow
  • Blue with white letters signs for major destinations.
    • New format
    Old format

    Asian Highway route signs

    As part of the Asian Highway Network.

    Motorcycle lane

    Malaysian motorcycle lane signs are blue.

    Border signs

    Border signs in Malaysia are green for international and state and blue for district.

    International border signs

    State border signs

    District border signs

    Important signs

    These are other important signs in Malaysia such as government institutions and tourist destinations.

  • White with black letters for towns and other settlements.
  • Green with orange letters for government institutions.
  • White with green letters and Maroon with white letters for tourist destinations.

    • Warning signs

    Malaysian warning signs are diamond-shaped and are yellow and black in colour.

    Regulatory signs

    Malaysian Regulatory signs are round with white backgrounds, red borders, and black pictograms. Mandatory instruction signs are round with blue backgrounds and white pictogram. The exceptions are the stop sign and the give way sign.

    Information signs

    Malaysian information signs are blue.

    Tourist spot signs

    Malaysian tourist spot signs are maroon.

    Weighing bridge signs

    There is also a signs for weighing bridge.

    Construction/Temporary signs

    The construction signs in Malaysia are diamond-shaped and are orange and black in colour.

    Road name sign

    Road name sign in Malaysia have many different colours and styles according the local authority to design with them.

    Symbols

    Other symbols include hospital signs, airport signs, mosque signs and so on.

    These signs usually found at the bridge.

    River signs

    These signs usually found at the bridge.

    Highway concessionaires border limit

    Many expressways/highways has a border limit.

    References

    Road signs in Malaysia Wikipedia
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