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Revisions 1 and 2 to the 2009 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
Posted: 5/15/2012

Revisions 1 and 2 to the 2009 Edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) were published in the May 14, 2012 Federal Register notice. Revision 1 restores certain language from Section 1A.09 of the 2003 MUTCD that will continue the FHWA's current practice under Official Interpretation 1(09)-1 (I), which states that in limited, specific cases, deviation from a STANDARD is allowed at a location or other locations with the same conditions, provided that an agency or other official having jurisdiction fully documents the engineering reason for the deviation. Revision 2 eliminates 46 of the 58 compliance dates that were listed in Table I-2 of the 2009 MUTCD. Four of the 12 compliance dates that were retained have had their compliance dates extended. A new Option paragraph was added to Section 2D.43 exempting existing historic street name signs within a locally identified historic district from the provisions regarding street sign color, letter size, and other design features, including retroreflectivity.

URL: http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/kno_2009r1r2.htm


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