Signs
All sign names requested on the agreement are to be approved by Anne Meyer, who works for this office in CO.
What is the Office of Communications?
The average length of an adopted roadway is this long.
What is two miles?
The AAH agreement requires a minimum of this many picks every year.
What is two litter picks?
Prior to each litter pick, every volunteer must review the safety guidelines brochure and this on the AAH webpage.
What is the Safety Video?
This is another prominent volunteer road cleanup program offered to the public through MnDOT.
What is the Highway Sponsorship Program or HSP?
The Adopt a Highway signs feature the image of a highway next to the person holding these two items.
What is a bag and a stick or poker?
Unless "grandfathered" in, this is the current limit of how many sections a group can have adopted at a time.
What is three sections?
What is a Tick Card?
Volunteers working along interstates must be this old or older.
What is 18 years old?
Pick a Highway events cannot be scheduled earlier than this long in advance, so that AAH sections are not kept unadoptable for a prolonged time.
What is one to two months?
This is the amount of time it usually takes for a set of AAH signs to be ordered, made, and installed on the highway.
What is 6 to 10 weeks?
This is the name for when a portion of highway is exchanged between MnDOT and counties or cities in Minnesota.
What is a Turnback?
The sign name grid on the AAH agreement has this many spaces available for each of the two lines.
What is 18 spaces?
There is no parking on a state right of way unless approved by this district office.
What is the Traffic Office?
The unofficial maximum number of volunteers is recommended as this or less.
What is 30 Volunteers?
The full, base AAH sign measures this many inches wide and this many inches tall.
What is 60 inches by 36 inches?
Adopt a Rest Area sites are a portion of this Class of rest area that distinguishes MnDOT rest areas by size and amenities.
What is Class 4?
The group types associated with the AAH agreement consist of Business, Church, Club, Family, School, [this type], and Other.
What is Service Group?
Volunteer groups will provide one adult supervisor for this many participants between the ages of 12 and 17 years old.
What is three participants?
Unless passing through areas with lower speed limits, the minimum spacing between AAH signs and any other traffic control signs should be this many feet in nearly every case.
What is 500 feet?
This is the term for what sort of classification an AAH sign is compared to other signs MnDOT uses. It has to do with what sort of information is presented on a sign.
What is an Acknowledgement Sign?
This MnDOT office maintains a list of all agency-maintained rest areas on the State Highway map.
What is Historic Roadside Properties and Waysides?
Adopt a Highway agreements are considered this type of contract in the MnDOT Retention Schedule.
What are Short Term Contracts?
This color, although prevalent on other kinds of MnDOT vests, is not included on AAH vests to indicate the wearer is a volunteer not a worker.
What is orange?
This stormwater permit applies to roads with drainage systems, ditches, municipal streets, curbs and gutters, catch basins and related structures that are also owned or operated by a public entity.
What is an MS4 or Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Permit?