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National blitz on bus-stop parking

4th September 1970
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New Clearway signs and penalties authorized by MoT

• Three new street signs will presently be making their appearance in London and the provinces--because of indiscriminate parking at bus stops where the ordinary "no waiting" restrictions have proved inadequate.

This follows recommendations made by the Working Group on Bus Demonstration projects which was set up in January 1969 to consider what could be done in the shorter term to help bus operations in cities.

The Ministry of Transport has circularized all traffic authorities advising them of their powers to ban, by means of special markings, bus-stop parking and, subject to the consent of the Minister, local authorities will now be able to make a Bus Stops Clearway Order under the terms of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 as amended. As well as designating a "protected area" of sufficient size to permit buses easy access to the stop, an order will also allow for the moving of bus stops in an emergency or to a better site at short notice without further statutory process.

Where the prohibition applies, a wide continuous yellow line will be laid near the kerb along the length of the white bus stop box on the road. A yellow plate with a small replica of the "No Stopping" sign and the words "No stopping except buses 7 a.m.-7 p.m." will be mounted below the normal bus stop sign, but facing outward across the road. Responsibility for the laying of carriageway markings and the putting up of signs will lie with local authorities.

While the current London Transport "Bus Stop" sign will remain unchanged, a new standardized sign is being adopted for the provinces. This will show a single-di bus in black silhouette on a wl backgroujid above a horizontal black I and the words "Bus Stop" in upper lower case lettering. Local authorities will able to make traffic regulation orders reference to such signs in specified-streeu accordance with Section I (3B) of the Rc Traffic Regulation Act 1967 as amended.

Anyone contravening the traf regulation order by parking between prescribed hours in a "protected an marked by a yellow line will be subject tu fine not exceeding £20 on sumrm conviction. Motorists are reminded thal they park within the white box of unprotected bus stop, they will still be Ha to penalties for obstruction.

Speaking at the annual conference of Municipal Passenger Transport Associat at Eastbourne last week, Mr T. L. Beagl for the Ministry of Transport, emphasi the importance of bus stops being sitec the best possible interest of passengers. said that bus operator members of Working Group on Bus Demonstrat Projects had stressed time and again t freeing bus stops from parked vehi( would be the most beneficial single act the Group might achieve.


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