DfT pledges to revise guidance on CPZ signs

26 October 2006

The Department for Transport has acknowledged that the signing of parking restrictions can be unclear to motorists, and pledged to revise guidance on traffic signs to tackle the issue.
The department last week admitted that research it commissioned found motorists were being unfairly penalised by unclear and over-complicated signing regimes, and in response, said it would, consult later this year on revising Chapter 3 of the Traffic signs manual and the operational guidance.
MPs on the transport select committee had demanded to know why, two years on, the DfT had taken no action on the report by TRL on how signage could be improved. Ministers retorted that TRL ‘had not identified robust solutions for dealing with signage problems arising from increasingly-complex restrictions’.

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