Talk:Reassurance marker

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I think this misses the point of these markers. They don't appear randomly along the route, but at a well-defined distance after each intersection. That is, the purpose is not to "reassure drivers that they are traveling on the correct road", but to inform them of which road they are on after an interchange, which is not always clear.

WP:BOLD. And they do appear in the middle of long intersection-less stretches. æle ✆ 00:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposal

Any opposition to merging Highway shield? Mapsax (talk) 00:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Shields are used for more than reassurance marker purposes; that is only one application of them. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 05:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Good point.
There seems to be a lot of similarities between the pages; I cross-linked them as I saw appropriate, but I'm wondering if information from each is also appropriate on the other. Mapsax (talk) 19:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article name?

Not to stir the pot, but it seems to me that the article should be named Confirming marker, since that's the predominant use. Reassurance shield assemblies only show up periodically, by design, and usually not at all in urban areas, since intersections are spaced so closely, and thus these would be confirming assemblies, per the MUTCD. Mapsax (talk) 19:52, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

You're probably right about "reassurance marker"; it does seem to be used by official agencies for trail blazes, but not for highway markers. "Confirming marker" isn't used either though; it's "confirming assembly" in the MUTCD. --NE2 07:29, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] US 221 picture

A typical U.S. reassurance marker, this one for U.S. Highway 221 southbound
A typical U.S. reassurance marker, this one for U.S. Highway 221 southbound

I've located a picture of reassurance markers on Ontario's Highway 401, which I think looks better than the existing picture of the US 221 marker uploaded by Alerante (not as blurry and vertically imposing). I'm moving the US 221 picture here just so it doesn't get orphaned. - Hinto (talk) 22:17, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I think this picture can safely be orphaned... it's not too difficult to take better pictures of reassurance / confirming markers. —Rob (talk) 14:09, 9 February 2008 (UTC)