What does the Divided Highway Crossing (Keep Right of Median) sign mean?
The Divided Highway Crossing (Keep Right of Median) sign (MUTCD R6-3) is a regulatory sign under the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the national standard the states build from. Crossing or turning here, keep the median on your left and use the right-hand roadway. Taking the near one puts you against the flow.
Source: MUTCD 11th Edition, Chapter 2B, Table 2B-1, checked 2026-09-09.
What shape and color is the Divided Highway Crossing (Keep Right of Median) sign?
| MUTCD code | R6-3 |
|---|---|
| Group | Regulatory signs |
| Shape | Horizontal rectangle |
| Color | White background, black legend and symbol |
What a horizontal rectangle means. Usually guidance: direction, distance and destination. Also used for some regulatory plaques mounted under another sign. Rectangles are the loosely assigned outline in the system, though, so on this sign the shape alone does not tell you its family; the color and the legend do.
What white means. Regulatory. A black legend on a white background is a law, not advice.
Regulatory signs. Every sign in this group has a statute behind it, so disobeying one is a citable offense on its own. Permit tests tend to word them as a duty you owe rather than show you the face.
What is the Divided Highway Crossing (Keep Right of Median) sign often mistaken for?
The Divided Highway warning sign (W6-1), a yellow diamond warning that the road ahead splits. R6-3 tells you which side to take right now.
|  |
|---|---|
| GroupRegulatory signs | GroupWarning signs |
| ShapeHorizontal rectangle | ShapeDiamond |
| ColorWhite background, black legend and symbol | ColorYellow background, black symbol and border |
| What it meansCrossing or turning here, keep the median on your left and use the right-hand roadway. | What it meansFrom here the two directions run on their own pavement with a median between them. |
Which signs get mistaken for the Divided Highway Crossing (Keep Right of Median) sign?
One Way (arrow)R6-1The vertical One Way sign (R6-2) and the Divided Highway Crossing sign (R6-3). Black-on-white with an arrow is regulatory one-way; a yellow diamond with a divided-road symbol is a warning.
What are the other regulatory signs?
All 39 regulatory signs on one page, or every US road sign by shape and color.
Test yourself on this sign and the rest of the set with a road signs practice test for Florida, Texas or California.
The artwork is the federal design itself, which the manual dedicates to the public domain in MUTCD 11th Edition, Part 1, Section 1D.06, checked 2026-09-09. The Interstate Shield, the 511 pictograph and the National Scenic Byway graphic are named exceptions and are not reproduced anywhere on this site.
Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 11th Edition. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Federal Highway Administration or any state agency.