Divided Highway Begins Sign

Updated July 9, 2026

Divided Highway Begins · MUTCD W6-1 · Warning sign

What the Divided Highway Begins sign means

This yellow diamond warns that the road ahead becomes a divided highway, with a median or barrier separating the two directions of traffic. The symbol shows the roadway splitting around a divider. Keep to the right of the median and treat the two roadways as separate one-way streets. It is posted where an undivided road transitions into a divided one, so you do not accidentally drive on the wrong side. Stay in the right-hand roadway and watch for the lane arrangement to change as the median begins.

What to do when you see it

Stay right of the new median and treat the divided road as separate one-way roadways.

On the CA permit test

Divided Highway Begins warns a median is about to separate the directions — keep right of it.

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