Road Signs and Markings: Hedges and Ditches

(asked on 25th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 21 July 2016 (HL1206), what estimate they have made of the percentage of road signs on the highways network that are being obscured by overgrown foliage.


Answered by
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Baroness Sugg
This question was answered on 7th November 2017

Highways England invests significant funds in maintaining road signs and their contracts require that vegetation is cut back as necessary.

The Department for Transport also encourages highway authorities to consider the advice as set out in the UK Road Liaison Group’s code of practice, ‘Well Maintained Highways’. This advises authorities to trim back trees and foliage to ensure traffic signs are kept legible.

No central assessment of road signs that are being obscured by overgrown foliage, operated either by local highways authorities or by Highways England, has been made.

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