Location: M 7 (Westlink - Western Sydney Orbital).
To the right of the road number, you'll usually see the road name (like in Queensland), but the name of this road is not signposted for some reason. "Pennant Hills Rd" refers to an intersecting road. As always in Australia, road names are being referred to in allcaps, but whilst they are signposted against a white background on NSW directional signs, they are not signposted on a background on reassurance signs. Also, drivers are being reassured that they are still well on their way to the airport. Oddly, they are not being told how far they are away from it.
Photo: Sam Laybutt / Ozroads
Location: Pacific Motorway (Brisbane - Sydney)
Road numbering new style in Queensland. Prefix and number in yellow will be common throughout Australia in a few years.
Location: E 19 (Antwerpen - Rotterdam).
Flemish reassurance signs are always placed to the left of the road, i.e. in the middle. Apart from large cities on this road, you will always get the distance to the next exit. Breda is the control city. No road number.
Location: Numansdorp, A 29 (Rotterdam - Bergen op Zoom)
This is the pull-through sign if the exit sign is not overhead. It does show distances and the directions ahead, though. Mostly, the sign features the terminus of the road and a regional focal point. If those are the same however (as is the case here), you'll only see one destination on the distance signs. There are no reassurance shields as such after the exit in The Netherlands. The kilometer posts will show you the road number though, so you can verify quickly.
Location: Gau Bickelheim, A 61 (Ludwigshafen - Venlo).
Sign will usually only show destinations on the present road. If a city is on an intersecting road, the number of this road will be displayed before that city. That is the case here for Mainz. Reassurance signs are the only German signs to list European road numbers.
Location: A 26 (Autoroute des Anglais, Calais - Troyes)
Very basic. Sign shows French national road number (in red) and the European road number (in green). Destinations will be shown by distance in an ascending mode.
Location: Praha Jizni Mestro, D 1 (Praha - Brno).
Road numbers and destination. Brno is the control city; Pruhonice is the next exit. Note the European road triplex.
Photo: Ceske Dalnice
Location: Wattens, A12 (Landeck - Rosenheim).
At the bottom is the distance to the next exit. München (Munich) and Salzburg are the control cities of this road. Don't expect that each of these focals always returns on the next distance sign. National and European road numbers are also shown.
Location: Lune Valley, M 6 (Birmingham - Glasgow).
Road number and a few major destinations. Distances in miles of course. Note that the UK never lists European road numbers, even though the UK road network has been included in the grid of European road numbers.
Photo: Ian Britton / FreeFoto
Location: A 4 (Dresden - Wroclaw)
National road number and European road number. Wroclaw is the control city, but this distance sign goes beyond that. Zgorzelec is the terminus of the A 4, being the town on the German border.
Photo: Autostrady
Location: Horgen, A 3 (Landquart - Zürich - Basel).
Swiss reassurance shields feature up to four destinations, but main cities only (or sometimes a mountain pass). One of the cities named is always the terminus of the road, Basel in this case. You will not see the distance to the next exit. No European road numbers either.
Photo: Ronan / Schweizer Autobahnen
Location: B 400 (Gippsland Hwy, Sale - Melbourne via Foster)
This sign is from a rural highway rather than from a motorway (or freeway, to use the Australian word). There is no difference with a motorway reassurance sign though. Four or five destinations, including the focal point (Foster) and the remote focal point (Melbourne).
Photo: Darren Hodges / Signspotters
Location: E 75 (Helsinki - Lahti)
Finnish national road number, European road number and a number of major destinations. No nearest exit.
Photo: Ronan / Schweizer Autobahnen
Location: E6 (Malmö - Oslo)
European road numbers only, since roads in Sweden with a European road number do not get a domestic Swedish road number. For the rest, fairly straightforward distance sign, just showing the distances to a number of major destinations.
Photo: Chris / Dutch Roadgeek Blog
Location: Kranj, A 2 (Klagenfurt - Ljubljana)
Slovenian national road number (very much looking like its Croatian counterpart), European road number and a number of destinations.
Photo: Rien / Belgian Roads
Location: A 7 (Ljubljana - Rijeka)
Major destinations. Note that the destination above (Split) is not even on this particular road, so there is no focus in that respect either. Note the exit symbol behind "Jurdani", denoting that this is the next exit and that the distance indicated is to the exit only.
Photo: Rien / Belgian Roads
Location: El Vendrell, AP-7 (Perpignan - Valencia)
Major cities and the distance thereto. No road numbers and no reference to the nearest exit.
Photo: Chris / Dutch Roadgeek Blog
Location: E 45 (Flensburg - Arhus)
Couple of major destinations on the road ahead. On a blue background below is the number, the name and distance to the next exit
Photo: ABRob
Location: Peschiera, Autostrada La Serenissima - A 4 (Torino - Trieste)
It depends on the toll operator of the road, whether reassurance signs are available in Italy. On the roads of some operators, there is none, even though you can find reassurance information on some signs displaying the road number or the distance to a control city. The exact contents of the reassurance sign also differs by toll road operator. This sign shows the the distance to the control city of the present road and the road number (A 4 Venezia) and also the control cities for the next intersecting motorway, the A 22, along with the distance to the intersection (inizio, which is Italian for "beginning").
Location: E 429 (Tournai - Brussels)
Much like its Flemish counterpart, but placed on the right (and correct :-) side of the road. The next exit is always one of the destinations listed on the reassurance sign. Sometimes, reassurance signs in the Wallonie also list the name of the road, such as "Autoroute des Ardennes". This is above all done after major intersections.
Location: National Highway 1 (Keelung - Kaohsiung)
Major destinations in two character sets. No specification of the road you are on.
Photo: Darren Hodges / Signspotters
Location: A 2
Having two major destinations on your bi-lingual sign already fills up the sign. Note the odd alignment of the distances, which you would see aligned at the right in most other nations. Interestingly enough, the abbreviation "km" is not written in Greek (even though this is something you see elsewhere in Greece).
Photo: E. Gavic / autosnelwegen.net
Location: Castro Daire, A 24 (Viseu - Verin)
Couple of major destinations along the road. On this sign, the European road number is stated and the national road number is suddenly framed. The alignment of the road numbers is, well ... erm ... interesting.
Photo: Seppl
Location: M 1 (Budapest - Vienna)
Couple of major cities and the road number on the main sign. Komàrom is on an intersecting road. As a consequence, it is listed separately with the road number to follow to that town. At the bottom on a separate sign is the distance to the next exit, which is only referred to with its number. As Hungarian exits are numbered by the nearest kilometer post, this bit of information is quite useless, since every single kilometer post already is clear enough as to the distance to exit 39.
Photo: Caresse
Location: T 1 (Kingston - Ocho Rios)
A number of major destinations ahead. No road number.
Photo: Dwarf
Location: I 280 (San Francisco - San Jose)
A number of major destinations ahead. No road number. Unlike most European countries, United States distance signs are not placed after every exit as a means of reassurance, but at regular intervals, regardless of an exit being close. Reassurance also comes from trailblazers being placed every now and then, indicating the route you're on.
Photo: Marcel Monterie
Location: N 12 (Johannesburg - Ermelo)
Most South African reassurance signs give you the control city and a second town ahead. The road number is featured as well.
Location: MR 3 (Mbabane - Manzani)
Road number and some two focals ahead. Matsapha is the name of the airport. I have to say I don't see the rationale behind first putting the name of the airport, then the distance and then the airport sign. Odd ...
Location: SR2 (Perth - Joondalup)
The reassurance signs on the motorways in Greater Perth only use the names of the first couple of exits and their road numbers as focal points. On top, the number and (if available) name of the road you are on are indicated.
Photo: Paul Rands / Expressway
Location: SH18 (Western Auckland Ring Road)
The road number and the direction you are travelling in, as well as a few focals for the road ahead. The first two of those are the names of the next two exits, the third one is the control city.
Photo: Ben / Auckland Motorways
Location: E75 (Skopje - Athens)
Tihs sign contains the road number (and as a bonus, a motorway symbol), but most Macedonian distance signs do not. Macedonian reassurance signs refer to one or two major cities ahead. The reference to Athens shows that Macedonia is not afraid of referring to foreign towns or cities at some distance. There aren't many places in Europe where you will find a focal point at the distance of Athens. Now only for someone to trim the bush ...
Photo: Bojan / Build.com.mk
Location: M4 (Kinnegad - Dublin)
Few major destinations along the road, all again bilingual. To make it clear that Ireland has gone metric, the unit is specified on the sign as well. Even though there are a couple of E-roads in Ireland, such numbers are hardly ever signposted.
Photo: Wouter Jorritsma
Location: RN5: Ruta Panamericana (Puerto Montt - Santiago - Peruvian border)
Again, a somewhat older sign as is evidenced by the use of capitals only. But for the rest, no different than more recent signs with proper capitalisation. Two or three major towns ahead (in Santiago, they would rather show suburbs or intersecting roads). The distance sign does not show the road number. Chile uses separate road markers for that purpose.
Photo: Wouter Jorritsma
Location: QL1 (Chinese border - Hanoi)
This is the sole form of reassurance you'll get along a Vietnamese road, the kilometer marker. It shows one major town along the route, which might be the first one or one on the other side of the country (typically Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City in that case). This town may differ every kilometer. Apart from that town, the distance to that town and the kilometer mark itself, the road number is painted on the top. Hardly readible when traveling at motorway speeds, but very readible when standing still or going by bike. As is quite common on the Vietnamese motorway, where motorway is a misdenomer.
