{"id":15011,"date":"2014-02-20T01:31:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T01:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15011"},"modified":"2014-02-20T01:31:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T01:31:33","slug":"speed-limit-signs-or-not-as-the-case-may-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15011","title":{"rendered":"Speed Limit Signs… Or Not, As The Case May Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story raises an interesting point. A Gloucestershire driving instructor is bemoaning the absence of speed limit signs on a local dual carriageway. Basically, there are<\/strong> speed limit signs \u2013 but these occur before<\/strong> a roundabout, and there are no subsequent repeater signs after it.<\/p>\n

We have quite a few such roads in Nottingham. The regulations say that small repeater signs should be placed at appropriate intervals, but as long as there is a main sign to indicate where the limit comes into force then no rules are being broken. Usually, repeater signs are missing because someone has forgotten to put them back after road works or the replacement of lights which have been damaged in accidents.<\/p>\n

If you look at the photo accompanying the story from the Gloucester Citizen, the street lighting in the background is the new \u201cenergy efficient\u201d kind.\"Gloucester<\/p>\n

I\u2019d lay odds that before this lighting was put in there would have been repeaters, and whoever authorised\/planned the lighting upgrade was responsible for not replacing the signage to the same standard. It\u2019s a script played out by councils up and down the country.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t just speed limits, either. This one around here uses the mini-roundabout sign to warn of an upcoming mini-roundabout.\"Misplaced<\/p>\n

As far as I\u2019m aware, it should be the red and white triangle sign that warns of an upcoming hazard. The blue mini-roundabout sign is supposed to say \u201chere it is, so give way as necessary\u201d. In fact, just round that bend there\u2019s another blue circle correctly placed at the actual roundabout.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s this roundabout which is on test routes. Note the blue circle with the arrow \u2013 which denotes that you should \u201ckeep to or pass on the left\u201d.\"Colwick<\/p>\n

All the signs on all exits of that roundabout are the same. They should be a horizontal left-pointing arrow which denotes that you should only \u201cturn left\u201d.<\/p>\n

Indirectly it is a dumbing-down problem. Specifically, dumbing-down has resulted in people who are too dumb to put the correct signs back up when they take them down or install new road layouts.<\/p>\n

The problem is even worse in road works \u2013 and Nottingham is the Road Works Capitol of the World.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not convinced it is specifically a problem for learners, as is claimed in the original article. It\u2019s the same for everyone. In fact, learners should have it easier if they have a good instructor to explain it to them. However, it sometimes takes several trips on the same route to figure these things out, and that can\u2019t be right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story raises an interesting point. A Gloucestershire driving instructor is bemoaning the absence of speed limit signs on a local dual carriageway. Basically, there are speed limit signs \u2013 but these occur before a roundabout, and there are no subsequent repeater signs after it. We have quite a few such roads in Nottingham. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}