Road signs in Malaysia

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Malaysian road signs at Federal Highway in Petaling Jaya. On the left side is the toll expressway and the highway's green signs and on the right side is the non-tolled federal, state and municipal highway's blue signs.

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, Irish 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 signs use a font specially designed for the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM). The font is called LLM Lettering. It has two type of typefaces, LLM Narrow and LLM Normal.

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 FT 92), 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,[1] 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[2]

Route numbers

Expressway

Examples Information Number digits
North–South Expressway Southern Route
Guthrie Corridor Expressway
Expressway route numbers E01 – E99
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Expressway exit numbers EXIT 201 – EXIT 299
EXIT 1101 – 1199

Federal

Examples Information Number digits

FT 24
FT 222
Main federal route numbers 001–249
FT 276
FT 423
Institutional facilities federal roads 250–479
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Federal road exit numbers EXIT 1 – EXIT 99
EXIT 201 – 299

FT 1-15
FT 3
Main federal route numbers
(Sarawak)
1-1 – 1–59
4-1 – 4–99
1000 – 9999
A1
A3
A22
Main federal route numbers
(Sabah)
A01 – A99
FT 700
FT 701
FT 702
Main federal route numbers
(Labuan)
700–799
FT 1123
FT 2486
FELDA/FELCRA federal route numbers 1000 – 1999
2000 – 2999
FT 3214
FT 3374
Industrial federal route numbers 3000–3999

State

Examples Information Number digits
J32 Johor state route numbers J001 – J999
B1 Selangor state route numbers B001 – B999
N9 Negeri Sembilan state route numbers N001 – N999
SA3 Sabah state route numbers SA001 – SA999

Highway codes

Directional and distance signs

Tolled Expressway and Highway signs

North–South Expressway Northern Route Expressways

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.
FT 1 Federal Roads
B13 State Roads
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.

Speed limit and National Speed Limit signs

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.

Miscellaneous

Bridge-related signs

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.

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.kkr.gov.my/files/akta_subsidiari/9.pdf
  2. ^ FT 1 Maklumat Mengenai Papan Tanda Arah, Destinasi dan Nombor Laluan Jalan Raya Malaysia Archived 19 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Jabatan Kerja Raya Malaysia. Retrieved on 23 August 2008.
  3. ^ "Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur". July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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