Was there any law against metric road signs before the 1970s? asks Kel
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Category: Road signs
How many people can visualise a kilometre?
How many people can visualise a kilometre (or a mile for that matter)? asks Martin Vlietstra.
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New motorway speed limits for goods vehicles?
By 1 January 2008, speed limiters will have been fitted to all recently registered, and many older, buses, coaches and goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes.
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A call to legalise distance signage in metres on UK roads
Road signs in Britain closely follow international norms as laid out in the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Where possible, language-independent symbolic signs are used so as to be as universally understood as possible. (Article contributed by Martin Ward).
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Steering a wrong course on the highways?
The Government’s reluctance to consider decimal measurement of distance on UK roads ignores a successful precedent at sea. (Article submitted by Derek Pollard).
A headache on the road to Pickering
Our contributor has encountered a low bridge sign that has left him guessing. [Contributed by Seares and edited by Derek Pollard] Continue reading “A headache on the road to Pickering”
Wouldn’t life be simpler
If we could use one unit for distance, height, width, length etc on our roads?
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