Road Signs and Markings

(asked on 22nd October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 21 October to Question 56409, if he will list the specific signs which are officially approved but not covered by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, 2016, as amended, and require formal approval from his Department before a local authority can install them.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 1st November 2021

A list of traffic signs that have been approved by the Department, but are not prescribed in the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions, 2016, as amended, and require approval by the Secretary of State for Transport, are shown in the table below:

NP 409 & NP 409.1 VARIABLE SPEED LIMIT START/END

NP 419 TIMES OF OPERATION OF HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE AHEAD

NP 420 DEFINITION OF HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE

NP 420.1 DEFINITION OF HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE - NO HGVs OVER 7.5T

NP 420.2 DEFINITION OF HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE - NO HGVs

NP 421 HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE AHEAD

NP 423 RISK OF LORRIES OVERTURNING ON ADVERSE CAMBER

NP 426 ROAD NUMBER AND REFERENCE

NP 428 & 428.1 START AND END OF FOOTWAY PARKING PROHIBITION

NP 428.2 FOOTWAY PARKING PROHIBITION REPEATER SIGN

NP 429 EMERGENCY ACCESS

NP 430 STOP FOR CONVOY

NP 431 WAIT HERE FOR CONVOY

NP 432 NEW ROAD SURFACE

NP 433 LOW EMISSION ZONE

NP 545RM ROAD MARKING - CHILDREN

NP 622.11 TUNNEL CLASSIFICATION PLATE

NP 818.4A DANGEROUS GOODS PROHIBITED

NP 829.8 ACCIDENT SLOW

NP 829.9 ACCIDENT USE HARD SHOULDER

NP 829.10 EMERGENCY SERVICES TRAINING

NP 958.2 HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE AHEAD

NP 958.6 OFF SIDE BUS LANE AHEAD

NP 958.7 OFF SIDE HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE AHEAD

NP 958.9 BUS, LORRY AND MOTOR CYCLE LANE AHEAD

NP 958.10 OFF SIDE BUS ONLY LANE AHEAD

NP 958.11 NEAR SIDE BUS ONLY LANE AHEAD

NP 958.12 BUS, AUTHORISED VEHICLES AND MOTOR CYCLE LANE AHEAD

NP 958.13 BUS AND AUTHORISED VEHICLES LANE AHEAD

NP 958.14 OFF SIDE BUS AND AUTHORISED VEHICLES LANE AHEAD

NP 958.15 OFF SIDE BUS AND MOTORCYCLE LANE AHEAD

NP 959.2 HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE

NP 959.5 OFF SIDE BUS LANE, CYCLE AND TAXI

NP 959.6 BUS AND LORRY LANE

NP 959.7 BUS, LORRY AND MOTOR CYCLE LANE

NP 959.8 OFF SIDE BUS ONLY LANE

NP 959.9 NEAR SIDE BUS ONLY LANE

NP 959.10 BUS, AUTHORISED VEHICLES AND MOTOR CYCLE LANE

NP 959.11 BUS AND AUTHORISED VEHICLES LANE

NP 959.12 OFF SIDE BUS AND MOTOR CYCLE LANE

NP 960.4 CONTRA-FLOW BUS, CYCLE AND TAXI LANE

NP 962.3 HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE ON ROAD AT JUNCTION AHEAD

NP 962.5 BUS AND MOTORCYCLE LANE ON ROAD AT JUNCTION AHEAD

NP 2919.2 MOTORWAY LORRY ONLY SERVICE AREA AHEAD

NP 3015 WIG-WAG SIGNAL

NP MW TOLL MOTORWAY (PERMANENT) : 'Toll'

NS 56A DIVERSION ROUTE SYMBOL

NS 66 HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE

NS 68 OVERTURNING LORRY

NS 70 PARKING PLACE PARTIALLY OR WHOLLY ON VERGE OR FOOTWAY

NS 74 VEHICLE CARRYING DANGEROUS GOODS

S 68 CLEAN AIR ZONE

NP 551.3 SMALL WILD ANIMALS

NP 2514 PARK ACTIVE

NP 1028.7 E-SCOOTER BAY MARKING

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