Traffic controls — Colorado Permit Test

Traffic controls include traffic signals, traffic signs and pavement markings.

Knowing the three groups makes the rest of the handbook easier to hold on to. Markings count as a control, which drivers often forget.

Traffic controls include traffic signals, traffic signs, and pavement markings

Traffic control can also be provided by law enforcement, highway personnel or school crossing guards, and you must obey directions from these persons.

A person standing in the road knows something the signal does not, such as a crash round the corner. Their instruction comes first.

You must obey directions from these persons

If a traffic signal is not operating or is malfunctioning, treat the intersection as a four way stop.

A dead signal gives nobody priority, so every driver has to earn it the same way. Treating it as a four way stop is the rule everyone already knows.

If the traffic signal is not operating or is malfunctioning, treat the intersection as a four way stop

Traffic lights are usually at intersections and run from top to bottom red, yellow and green.

Knowing the order lets you read a signal from a distance, and lets a driver who cannot tell the colors apart read it by position.

Traffic lights are usually at intersections and are (from top to bottom) red, yellow, and green

Which of these is a traffic control?

Pavement markings on the road surface. Knowing the three groups makes the rest of the handbook easier to hold on to. Markings count as a control, which drivers often forget. Colorado Driver Handbook, p.7: “Traffic controls include traffic signals, traffic signs, and pavement markings”