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CIHT – London Branch The Traffic Signs Policy Review Graham Hanson
Traffic Signs Policy Review
Delivering StW - Amendment Regs + authorisations Authorisation to English authorities 1) pavement parking signs (February 2011) 2) delivering StW (October 2011 and March 2012) 3) “trixi” cycle safety mirrors (February 2012) a
Amendments to the Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations and General Directions 1) portable pedestrian crossing signal controls (May 2011) 2) prescribe frequently authorised traffic signs (Jan 2012)
Traffic Advisory Leaflet 1/12 (March 2012)
Traffic signs authorisations
New parking signs
New parking signs – reducing parking signs
TSRGD arrangement
New approach to combined zone signing
Parking Signs: Areas of Misunderstanding
Park on a Sunday at 12 noon without a ticket
Park on a Sunday at 10am if you did not have a permit
Friday at 7pm if you did not have a disabled badge
Parking Signs: Areas of Misunderstanding
Question
Load here Tuesday at 10am
Wednesday at 11am if you had a permit
Friday at 7pm without Paying
Monday at 5pm with a ticket but without a permit
Parking bays
• Parking bays to be deregulated • Break the ties between a parking bay and upright signs • Legends to be discretionary • High quality contrasting materials to designate parking bays
Permit holders only – no sign
Parking signs Better design, clearer and smaller signs
Revised designs – panel dividers
Revised designs – panel dividers
Delivering StW – future work (parking signs)
Extending “signed bays” concept
New combined parking signs
Delivering StW – future work (parking signs) Prescribe basic building blocks – eg black border Discretion on how text/symbols and combinations of signs applied.
Restructuring TSRGD We are developing a new approach that will: • provide more flexibility • consolidate traffic sign regulation • reduce the prescription/number of traffic signs • simplify the structure • more user-friendly • remove requirement for authorisations • only retain essential directions • prescribe traffic signs, not be a design guide
A New Approach to Warning Signs Aim • To produce a streamlined Schedule for warning and regulatory signs Current Approach in TSRGD • 1 – Regulations at the front • 2 – Schedules 1 – 12 containing individual sign diagrams, and tables referencing applicable provisions • 3 – Directions at the back
A New Approach to Warning Signs Diagram 506.1 Side road ahead
A New Approach to Warning Signs Table Item 1 - Regulations 58(7) Variable message signs (7) Where a variable message sign displays by means of light-emitting characters or symbols— (a) the sign shown in diagram 504.1, 505.1, 506.1, 507.1, 510, 512, 512.1, 512.2 or 513; or (b) the sign shown in diagram 670 (when showing the numerals “20”, “30”, “40” or “50”) in such a way that the sign is only visible when associated equipment detects the presence of a vehicle exceeding the speed limit indicated by the sign, the variable message sign may display, beneath the sign displayed on it, the legend “SLOW DOWN” in characters having a height not less than one quarter of the height of the displayed sign.
A New Approach to Warning Signs Table Item 2 - Directions: 21(1)
A New Approach to Warning Signs Table Item 3 - Diagrams: 511, 572
A New Approach to Warning Signs Table Item 4 - Schedule 16, items 17 and 28
A New Approach to Warning Signs Table Item 5 - Schedule 17, item 1
A New Approach to Warning Signs The New Approach – Diagram 500
A New Approach to Warning Signs Table 1 - Symbols and legends used with the sign shown in diagram 500
A New Approach to Warning Signs Table 2 – Supplementary plates used only with the sign shown in diagram 500
Delivering StW - reduced requirement for traffic signs As a result of StW, there will no longer be requirements for: • Regulatory signs to be placed on both sides of the road at the start of a restriction • Upright parking signs to accompany road markings • Yellow lines to indicate waiting and loading restrictions in pedestrian zones • Red route repeater signs
Terminal signs
Repeater signs – Direction 11 • TSRGD 2002 – repeaters “At regular intervals” • Taken to mean ‘Precisely equal’ • Unrealistic = enforcement difficulties • TSRGD 2011 relaxed – “At least one” repeater • Short restriction thresholds – no repeaters at all
Repeater sign thresholds Diagram 670 (speed limits) on the lengths of road: • subject to a speed limit of 20 mph, and shorter than 200 metres • subject to a speed limit of 30 mph on an unlit road, and shorter than 200 metres • subject to a speed limit of 40 mph, and shorter than 250 metres
Delivering StW – reducing regulation, reducing costs 20mph zones • Repeater signs can be used as a physical feature • Remove the requirement for a speed roundel to be accompanied by an upright sign • Provided new signs for 20mph part-time limits • Reduce signing requirements, mandatory part-time 20mphs • Trial 20mph zones, with limited physical features
Guidance on DfT website – ‘Traffic Signs & Signals’ / ‘Guidance’
Issues we are currently working on • Can we remove the requirement for TOs for more regulatory signing? • Delivering our sign lighting proposals • Considering the requirements for type approval? • Developing options for new parking signs • Finalising our proposals for cycling • Considering the structure of the new TSRGD • Changing the way we work? • Possible consultation – early Next Year