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New Brunswick · Learner’s test

New Brunswick road signs and what they mean

One of your two written exams is road sign recognition, so you need New Brunswick road signs down before you sit it. The province sorts traffic signs into three kinds by what they do. The rules for several of them, and for the signal lights, are set out in the Motor Vehicle Act, which is where the meanings here come from.

  • 3Kinds of traffic sign the province names
  • 7Handbook part titled Traffic Signs
  • 10Metres before a stop sign you can’t park in
Open handbook Part 7 (PDF)

Updated November 2026 · Written from official sources, listed at the bottom of this page

Is there a road signs test in New Brunswick?

Yes. The road sign recognition exam is one of the written exams for a Class 7 Level 1 licence. The motorcycle and commercial licence tests include it too. The province doesn’t publish how many signs it shows you or how many you need right.

Part 7 of the Driver’s Handbook is titled Traffic Signs. The province’s Sign Manual sets the standards for how signs are designed and put up.

Regulatory and warning signs

Regulatory signs tell you the traffic laws that apply at a given time or place, and stop and yield signs go up at the entrances to through highways. Warning signs give you advance notice of a hazard on or beside the road: here, the school bus stop, roundabout and divided highway signs, each marking a place where the Motor Vehicle Act has a rule for you.

  • Red octagon with a white border and the word STOP in white.Stop: come to a full stop at the stop line, or before the crosswalk, or where you can see traffic on the road you’re entering, then go only when it’s safe and yield
  • Downward-pointing triangle with a wide red border and white centre, no text.Yield right-of-way: slow down before and while you enter the intersection, and give the right-of-way
  • Five-sided fluorescent yellow-green sign with a black border and two black schoolchildren walking.School zone: 30 km/h in a municipality, or 50 km/h in a rural community, regional municipality or rural district, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on school days, unless another limit is set
  • Vertical white sign: a right-turn arrow in a red circle and slash above a traffic-signal symbol with the red light lit.No right turn on a red light where this sign is posted
  • Yellow diamond: an arrow pointing up above the front of a school bus with a child on each side.School bus stop ahead: stop at least 5 metres from a school bus with flashing red lights, unless you’re meeting it on a highway divided by a median
  • Yellow diamond with three black arrows chasing each other counter-clockwise in a circle.Roundabout ahead: yield to traffic already in the circle, then drive counterclockwise
  • Yellow diamond: a black median shape at the top with an up arrow curving right and a down arrow on the left.Divided highway begins: don’t drive across the median except at a cross-over marked as one

Traffic signal lights

Signal lights aren’t signs, but the Motor Vehicle Act gives each one a meaning. Where a red light is showing, you may turn right after a full stop unless a sign forbids it.

  • Traffic-signal head with the bottom green light lit.Green: go straight or turn, unless a sign forbids the turn, yielding to vehicles and pedestrians already in the intersection or crosswalk
  • Traffic-signal head with the middle yellow light lit.Yellow: the red signal follows, so don’t enter the intersection unless you’re too close to stop
  • Yellow traffic-signal head with the top red light lit.Red: stop at the stop line, or before the crosswalk or intersection, and wait for the green
  • Traffic-signal head with the red light lit and short rays showing it is flashing.Flashing red: treat it as a stop sign
  • Traffic-signal head with the yellow light lit and rays showing it is flashing.Flashing yellow: go through only with caution

Guide signs, the third kind, show route numbers, directions, destinations, distances and points of interest.

The slow-moving vehicle emblem

You’ll see this triangle on vehicles rather than beside the road.

  • Fluorescent orange triangle with a dark red reflective border.Slow-moving vehicle emblem: not a road sign, but the triangle farm tractors and self-propelled farm machines must carry on the back on a highway
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Sources: Government of New Brunswick and 3 more. Checked November 2026.

Rules and fees can change, so check the official site before your test.

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