SIGNS AND LINES
FEATURE
If you can remove the number of signs,
you can often improve compliance
January 2012. Among these were several new signs required to cover newer types of parking restrictions.
Clutter and costs
Just over a year since the amendments to the TSRGD came into force, the new approach to delivering flexibility for local authorities promised in Signing the Way has begun to make an impact. In some instances where new signage is required ahead of the new TSRGD, the DfT’s approach has been to issue a series of mass area-wide authorisations to every local authority in England covering certain types of non-prescribed signage, rather than giving approval in response to specific applications only. This approach has helped to speed up the authorisation process and add flexibility in how authorities deliver signs. To date, the DfT has issued four such mass area-wide authorisations, affecting a variety of signs. Around 50 new signs are covered by these, plus options and requirements have changed for more than 100 others. Among these are signs for pay-by-phone parking, loading only areas, footway parking bans, rising bollards, more options for bus lanes and so on. They have also relaxed the requirements for two terminal signs at the entry to a parking zone and other regulatory measures, plus the marking of parking bays on the road.
This new approach has been welcomed by some practitioners. In London, Westminster City Council has
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LISA S. / SHUTTERSTOCK
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