Stealth traffic control sign

Abstract

A traffic control signal is provided for an intersection at which a first street and a second street meet. The streets are nearly parallel. The sign is for motorists on the first street. The sign is shaped to prevent a motorist on the second street from inadvertently reading the sign.

Having described my invention in such terms as to enable those skilled in the art to understand and practice it, and having identified the presently preferred embodiments thereof, I claim:  
     
         1 . A stealth traffic control sign including 
 (a) a stepped face;    (b) traffic control symbols formed on said stepped face; and,    (c) means for supporting said stepped face above the ground.    
     
     
         2 . In combination with a method for controlling traffic at the intersection of a first street and a second street, 
 said first street being at an oblique angle with respect to said second street such that traffic on each street moves toward said intersection along directions of travel which are oblique to one another,    the method including the step of erecting a traffic control sign at the intersection for traffic moving along said first street    the improvements to reduce the risk that traffic moving along said second street will heed the traffic control sign, said improvements comprising the step of providing at the intersection for traffic moving along said first street a traffic control sign with a stepped face which reduces the visibility of the sign to traffic moving along said second street.