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DfT Traffic Signs Review
September 2008 - May 2011
This DfT's wide ranging traffic signs policy review ran between September 2008 and May 2011. This has been the most fundamental review of the approach to traffic signing for 40 years and the key aims are to develop a traffic sign system that will meet the changing needs of road users, provide effective tools for the better management of the road network and minimise the impact on the environment.
Traffic signs are more than a traffic management tool and they can contribute to wider transport objectives. The traffic signs policy review has focussed on providing policy recommendations on three of these key areas:
1.improving road user information to ensure that traffic signs provide information that helps all road users
2.ensuring that traffic signs contribute to effective enforcement by informing road users of the restrictions on the road network
3.ensuring that traffic signs contribute positively to the environment - one of the key messages of the review is that local authorities should only place signs where required, and they should remove signs that are not necessary.
2011
Creating growth, cutting carbon - DfT's White Paper on sustainable transport contains proposals on lighting signs and road classification.
Read IHE's response.
DfT is also separately consulting on road network policy (including classification) (May 2011).
Signs banning pavement parking now permitted by DfT Ministers.
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