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903.4.39 Location of Distance Signs (MUTCD Section 2D.44)

Guidance. Distance signs should be installed on all state routes leaving municipalities and just beyond intersections of numbered routes in rural areas. If used, they should be placed just outside the municipal limits or at the edge of the built-up area if it extends beyond the limits. If a distance sign cannot be installed leaving the intersection, a destination sign with distances should be installed in advance of the intersection providing a destination for each departing leg of the intersection and the distance to the destination.

Where overlapping routes separate a short distance from the municipal limits, the Distance sign at the municipal limits should be omitted. The Distance sign should be installed approximately 300 feet beyond the separation of the two routes.

Where, just outside of an incorporated municipality, two routes are concurrent and continue concurrently to the next incorporated municipality, the top name on the Distance sign should be that of the place where the routes separate; the bottom name should be that of the city to which the greater part of the through traffic is destined.

Support. Figures 903.4.25.1 through 903.4.25.3 show typical placements of Distance signs.