A diamond-shaped sign along the highway is orange with black symbols. What does the color tell you?
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A.
A pedestrian or bicycle crossing is ahead.
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B.
A construction or maintenance zone is ahead. Correct
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C.
A park or recreation area is ahead.
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D.
A traffic crash or unplanned incident is ahead.
The answer is "A construction or maintenance zone is ahead."
Orange marks construction and maintenance zones. Choice D tempts readers who treat orange as the generic 'hazard' color and blend it with pink, but the manual pins orange to work zones and gives pink its own category for unplanned traffic incidents.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. A pedestrian or bicycle crossing is ahead.
Yellow-green, not orange, is the color the manual assigns to pedestrian and bicycle warnings. Guessed the neighbor color from the manual's list because both alert drivers to hazards ahead.
C. A park or recreation area is ahead.
Brown, not orange, is the color the manual reserves for parks and recreation signs. Grouped orange and brown as earthy warning colors and picked the one tied to outdoor destinations.
D. A traffic crash or unplanned incident is ahead.
Pink, not orange, is the color the manual assigns to unplanned traffic incidents. Read orange as the generic hazard color, a shortcut a driver builds from seeing orange cones after crashes.
This question tests your knowledge of Construction Signs in Illinois. Source: Illinois Rules of the Road, "Colors of Signs," p.64..
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