Traffic control plans, drawn and checked by hand
A permit sheet for one job. The signs, cones, tapers and buffer are drawn to scale, and every dimension is printed beside the MUTCD table it came from. A reviewer can check any number against the manual.
What you get
- A device layout. Where every sign and channelizing device goes, how far apart, and which paragraph of the manual puts it there.
- Every dimension cited. Taper lengths come from Table 6B-3, advance sign spacings from Table 6B-1, buffer lengths from Table 6B-2. Each one is printed with the table it was read from, not rounded off somebody's memory.
- The federal typical application your job matches. Every one of MUTCD Part 6's typical application figures is encoded. The sheet says in plain words why the figure it used is the one that fits.
- Your agency's own numbers and notes, where they differ from the federal ones, printed with the agency's own citation. Sixteen local agencies are encoded.
- A pedestrian route drawn where the work affects a sidewalk, a crossing or a path. The width is on the drawing, not a note telling you to maintain one.
- A signed detour where the street closes. The route is chosen so the largest vehicle you name can make every turn. It is kept off the clearances and weight limits OpenStreetMap records. A limit the map does not carry is a limit nobody here can see, so the route is field-verified.
- Revisions are quick. A revision is regenerated from the inputs your plan was drawn from. A moved work space or a corrected speed limit is minutes of work, not a new plan. What a revision costs is on the prices page.
What it is not
It is not a permit, and it is not an approval
Your agency decides whether a plan is acceptable. Nothing on this site promises that yours will be approved, and nobody who sells you a drawing can promise it.
It carries no professional engineer's seal
Some closures need a plan stamped by a licensed engineer and some do not. Your agency's rule decides that, not ours. Ask your permit counter whether your job needs a seal before you order. If it does, this is not the right thing to buy.
It is a draft until it is issued, and the field is the authority
A sheet carries one of two marks. A draft is stamped DRAFT, and says it is for review and not for construction. An issued sheet is stamped ISSUED FOR CONSTRUCTION, with the date. The person who draws and checks your plan decides which mark your sheet carries.
Either way the sheet carries the note the manual's own figures carry: dimensions are adjusted to the conditions found on the ground. A detour route is read off OpenStreetMap, so turn restrictions, one-way operations and signal timing are verified in the field before a sign goes up. The sheet prints that caveat too.
Some agencies want the layout drawn on their own base map
Seattle's Traffic Control Manual says a typical illustration “will not be reviewed or approved as a practical traffic control plan”. That is 2024 TCM p. 41. Its Applicant Guide asks for the plan drawn on SDOT's own base map, with the existing channelization, the curb space and a dimensioned work footprint. Kirkland and Renton ask for comparable things. Where your agency requires that, the device layout goes on a site base, and that is part of the work. It is also the reason there is no self-serve button on this site.
It is not software you buy
You are buying a finished sheet for one job. There is no login, no subscription and no account.
How every number is checked
The drawing is computed, not sketched, and not generated by a language model. One selection tree reads what you told us about the street and the work. It picks the typical application whose own conditions cover your job. It computes each dimension from the manual's tables at your posted speed. Where the inputs fall outside what the chosen figure covers, the sheet refuses to be marked issued and prints the mismatch.
Then a person reads it. Every warning on the sheet gets a disposition before the sheet is sent: fixed, a field item, or a note to you. That reading takes the time, and it is the part you are paying for.
How it goes
- Tell us about the job. The order form asks in plain words: how many lanes, what the speed limit sign says, how long the work space is. Site photos help more than anything else you can send.
- It is drawn and read. You are told the price and the date before any work starts.
- You get the sheet as a PDF sized for tabloid paper, and the CAD file if you want it.
- Something changed? Say so. The revision comes from what you already told us.