Road signs in Mexico explained

The road signs used in Mexico are regulated by Secretaría de Infraestructura, Comunicaciones y Transportess Directorate-General for Roads (Dirección General de Carreteras), and uniformized under a NOM standard[1] and the Manual de Señalización y Dispositivos para el Control del Tránsito en Calles y Carreteras (Manual of Signage and Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways),[2] which serves as a similar role to the MUTCD developed by the Federal Highway Administration. The signs share many similarities with those used in the United States and Canada. Like Canada but unlike the United States, Mexico has a heavier reliance on symbols than text legends.[3]

Before the eventual promulgation of an updated federal NOM standard in 2023,[1] with a comprehensive catalog of signs for use in urban contexts—absent in previous norms[4] —, signage varied across states;[5] [6] for instance, the state of Jalisco applied its own sign standard to state highways that is based on the 2011 NOM standard, whose signs were largely identical to those designed for the 1986 Manual de Dispositivos. Among other things, mandatory signs are circular, as in the European and some South American countries but unlike in the federal NOM standard.[7] This updated standard also introduces a bespoke typeface for signs, called Tipografía México,[8] which is based on the Mexico City "Calles" typeface, a design by Sergio Núñez[9] introduced in 2016.

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Vertical signage

Older signs

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NORMA Oficial Mexicana NOM-034-SCT2/SEDATU-2022, Señalización y dispositivos viales para calles y carreteras. PDF. es. Official Mexican Standard NOM-034-SCT2/SEDATU-2022, Signage and Traffic Devices for Streets and Highways. 19 September 2023. 2023-11-27.
  2. Book: Manual de Señalización y Dispositivos para el Control del Tránsito en Calles y Carreteras . . 1st . 5 December 2023 . Spanish . PDF.
  3. Web site: Road and Traffic Signs in Mexico - What You Need to Know . 2022-10-28 . www.rhinocarhire.com.
  4. Some new urban signage was introduced in advance of the 2023 NOM by SEDATU in its 2019 Manual de Calles.
  5. Web site: SICT y SEDATU ponen a consulta pública NOM sobre Movilidad en México . . 27 November 2023 . es . 5 January 2022 . Dicho proyecto de NOM [se aplica] como un mecanismo para sentar las bases para la conformación de una señalización armonizada en el territorio nacional.. This NOM project [is conducted] as a mechanism to lay the foundations for the creation of harmonized signage in the national territory..
  6. Compare the Aguascalientes, Jalisco and Mexico City signage manuals, for example.
  7. Book: Manual de señalización de carreteras estatales. State highway sign manual. Government of the State of Jalisco. Guadalajara. 2020. April 9, 2023. es.
  8. Web site: Dirección General de Servicios Técnicos - Normativa - Manuales . 8 February 2024 . es.
  9. Web site: Calles CDMX . Tipografías a la medida MX . 9 February 2024.

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