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There is a traffic sign used in France meaning "end of build up." But what does that mean?

Asked by GeorgeGee (4935points) September 4th, 2010

http://holidayinfrance.biz/roadtravel.htm
It’s a rectangular sign, blue and white.

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TexasDude's avatar

End of heavy traffic zone, perhaps?

anartist's avatar

Build up area, more developed area, city and developed roadside business area with more traffic lights, leaving for less built-up, more rural areas.
search “left the build-up area” on wiki.openstreetmap

downtide's avatar

Interesting – French road signs are almost identical to UK ones, although we don’t have an “end of build up” sign we have one that means a similar thing – end of speed restriction which basically means that national speed limits apply instead of local ones. It nearly always occurs as you leave a built-up area.

whitenoise's avatar

In the Netherlands we would refer to it as leaving the residential zone of a municipality. On the other side would be a sign welcoming you to – for instance – the municipality of Amsterdam or residential zone of Hoogland. All in all similar to @anartist‘s explanation.

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