Crossing Guard - Signs Used By Crossing Guards

Signs Used By Crossing Guards

Several countries have a unique sign for use by crossing guards to order traffic to stop. In Canada and the United States, crossing guards use a smaller version of the standard octagonal stop sign on a small pole. Australian crossing supervisors some times also use a normal octagonal stop sign, but often have other designs.

  • Australia (round, brown)

  • Australia (round, red)

  • Australia (orange-brown banner)

  • Northern Territory, Australia (fluorescent pink banner)

  • Canada

  • Chile

  • Republic of Ireland

  • Netherlands

  • New Zealand

  • Peru

  • Singapore

  • United Kingdom

  • United Kingdom (version with "CHILDREN")

  • United Kingdom (fluorescent version)

  • United Kingdom (fluorescent version with "CHILDREN")

  • United States

Read more about this topic:  Crossing Guard

Famous quotes containing the words signs, crossing and/or guards:

    “A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing the airy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)