Road Sign Consultation

[Origamist]

The Department for Transport is carrying out its biggest review of traffic signs in 40 years:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7613458.stm

 

[PBancroft]

I'm tempted to see if I can be a part of it.

 

[jonesy]

A good opportunity to go metric, but to save the expense of scrapping all the existing signs, we simply leave the existing speed limit signs in place and read them in Km/h instead!

 

[hackbike 6]

They'd still go faster than the offending sign.

What zimzum said as well.

 

[zimzum42]

Please don't go metric, I have no idea how far places are when the signs are in KM!

 

[HJ]

Please don't go metric, I have no idea how far places are when the signs are in KM!

That will be half the fun...

 

[PaulB]

I hope they address the maddening issue of Middle-lane-Malcolms. I despise those lazy, bone idle or ignorant people who probably complain about the "terrible congestion" on our motorways while dramatically contributing to it by reducing the road's capacity to two lanes due to their insistance on stating in the middle lane at all times.

 

[atbman]

How about getting rid of the "derestricted" sign and replacing them with the actual max. allowed, i.e. 60 on single carriageways and 70 on dual, etc.

 

[Trillian]

How about getting rid of the "derestricted" sign and replacing them with the actual max. allowed, i.e. 60 on single carriageways and 70 on dual, etc.

because then they have to put repeater signs every however many yards.



personally i hope they don't go metric, it'd mean re calibrating my car's speedometer

 

[Bug]

How about getting rid of the "derestricted" sign and replacing them with the actual max. allowed, i.e. 60 on single carriageways and 70 on dual, etc.

Because the National Speed Limit signs mean different limits to different vehicles. For example, on a single carriageway a car not towing may go 60mph where conditions allow, but an HGV may only travel at 50. Similarly a dual is 70/60 for the same two vehicles.

 

[domtyler]

It would be a good time to swap over to driving on the right too as on the continent, bring us all into line.