Tulsa World
By BRIAN BARBER World Staff Writer
Published: 12/7/20102:17 AM
Last Modified: 12/7/20103:19 AM
Tulsa crews are slowly replacing many of the city's street signs with versions that are easier to read to comply with new federal Highway Administration regulations.
Bumping up the size of the letters from 4 inches to 6 inches on roads with speed limits more than 25 mph, even more for other signs, and disallowing the use of all-capital letters are among the new rules included in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
It's part of an effort by the federal government to prepare municipal street systems for the aging motorist population. And for Tulsa, this means switching out tens of thousands of signs.
"The average age of a licensed driver keeps getting older, older and older," said Mark Brown, the city's traffic operations manager.
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