Divided highway sign
A yellow diamond showing a road split around a median. It warns that the highway ahead becomes divided, with traffic in each direction separated.
Easily confused with
- Keep right signA regulatory sign showing that traffic passes only to the right of the island, median or obstruction ahead.
- Divided highway ends signA yellow diamond showing a road whose median comes to an end, so the two directions of traffic share one roadway. It warns that the divided highway ends ahead and two-way traffic begins.
- Divided highway crossing signA white sign with a black plan view of a divided highway crossed by a side road. It tells drivers on the side road that they are coming to a divided highway, which they cross as two separate one-way roads.
How to read it
The MUTCD uses it on the approach to a section of highway where the two directions of traffic are separated by a median or other barrier, not at an intersection. Pennsylvania's manual describes what follows: two one-way roadways with a median or divider between them.
Rules vary by state and country. This explains the sign's standard meaning in the U.S. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices; it isn't legal advice.
Two different divided highway signs
Pennsylvania's manual shows a second, regulatory DIVIDED HIGHWAY sign, black and white, with a different meaning: the road you are on crosses a divided highway, which is really two one-way roadways. This yellow warning sign is not a substitute for a Keep Right sign at the end of a median island.
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The same shape elsewhere
Browse symbols drawn with diamonds or lines.
Sources
- MUTCD 2009 Edition, Chapter 2C: Warning Signs and Object Markers, MUTCD 2009, Part 2, U.S. Federal Highway Administration, Section 2C.22
- Pennsylvania Driver's Manual, Chapter 2: Signals, Signs and Pavement Markings, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, pp. 11, 15
- Official Florida Driver License Handbook, rev. 08/2023, Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, p. 50
Researched, edited and approved by Rory Hansen before publishing. Last reviewed September 25, 2026. How we research
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