Road Work Ahead sign
Work zone signs

Road Work Ahead sign

Construction or maintenance work is taking place on the road ahead.

How to recognise it

This sign is a diamond stood on its point in orange, used only for temporary work zones. Orange means people are working on or near the road. Fines are typically doubled in an active work zone, which is exactly the kind of detail permit tests like to ask about.

What the test wants you to know

Orange is used only for temporary work zones. Speeding fines are typically doubled when workers are present, and a work zone speed limit is a legal limit, not an advisory one.

Practise it

Reading about a sign is not the same as recognising it in half a second with an examiner watching. Every state road signs test on this site shows the sign and asks you to name it, then shows four faces and asks you to pick the right one.

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