32,845 signs were removed, and speed limits changed at thousands of locations.

06.11.2025 13:36

The speed signs that confused drivers have largely been removed. Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that, as part of the effort to simplify the markings that determine speed limits on highways across the country, a total of 32,845 signs have been removed to date.

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The Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, provided information about ongoing efforts to simplify and ensure uniformity in the markings that determine speed limits on highways across the country.

Minister Uraloğlu reminded that the Presidential Circular on "Uniformity in Speed Limiting Practices on Highways" was published in the Official Gazette on August 16, 2025. He stated that the works carried out under the coordination of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and the Ministry of Interior, with the protocol signed between these two ministries, have been standardized in accordance with the principle that "traffic signs should be as few as possible but as many as necessary."

"WE HAVE COMPLETED WORKS ON 14,590 KILOMETERS OF STATE AND PROVINCIAL ROADS"

Providing information about the ongoing works, Minister Uraloğlu continued his remarks as follows:

"As a first priority, we completed the works on a total of 14,590 kilometers of state and provincial roads with an average daily traffic of 10,000 and above on August 31, and we completely removed 992 pedestrian crossings. Additionally, we narrowed 392 residential areas while removing 842 of them. We removed speed signs at 348 curves and 928 intersections. We changed the speed limit at 427 curves and 108 intersections. We removed speed signs in 553 sections with damaged surfaces. We removed speed signs in 1,058 other sections and added 875 end-of-speed-limit signs. We closed 138 median gaps. In these works, we removed a total of 19,061 signs, including 11,258 speed signs."

"WE HAVE REMOVED A TOTAL OF 32,845 SIGNS, INCLUDING 20,055 SPEED SIGNS, ALONG WITH PRIORITY ROADS"

As of September 1, Minister Uraloğlu also stated that necessary works have been initiated by the Regional Directorates of the General Directorate of Highways on the remaining 53,989 kilometers of the road network. He shared that "We will complete the ongoing works by December 31. Along with the priority roads, we have removed a total of 32,845 signs, including 20,055 speed signs, so far."