£140m lorry bans depend on signs
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SIGNS engaging the attention of the Freight Transport Association are those denoting more than 2,300 lorry-ban areas in England and Wales. The Association estimates that the restrictions are costing industry, and thus consumers, at least £140m a year.
Their effectiveness depends on intelligent signs which drivers can easily understand. If the nature and area of bans are obscure they will not be observed and ill feeling will be generated between transport operators and police who try to enforce the unenforcable. Anything that encourages still further public distrust of the police is to be deplored.
The FTA points out that there are three generations of traffic sign in use, which can cause confusion. It hopes local authorities will not wait until the deadline of 1990 to convert all imperial signs to the metric system.
wish I could share that enthusiasm for the change. The longer good British signs remain the longer I shall be pleased.