Motorway fork sign
A blue sign with a diagram showing a branch off the road ahead and the following text.
Forward destinations: Port Talbot.
Exit destinations: Pen-y-bont; Bridgend; A4061; Maesteg; A4063; [Hospital (with A&E) symbol].
Junction number: 36.
Bridgend is often overlooked, being about halfway between Cardiff and Swansea and smaller than both. It only got its motorway bypass in 1981, before which time traffic had to use an older route imaginatively named Bypass Road.