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TSRGD 2016
Changes for on-street
parking controls
Parking Forum
30 March 2016
Simon Morgan
Traffic signing legislation
and guidance
• SI laid before Parliament: 22 March 2016
• Comes into effect: 22 April 2016
DfT Traffic Signs Clutter Task Force
• Sir Alan Duncan expected to report: April 2016
Traffic Signs Manual (estimated dates)
• Prioritise Chapters 3 & 5 (regulatory signs and markings).
– Drafts for peer review: September 2016
– Published final documents: April 2017
• New Chapter 6: traffic signals and crossings:
later in 2017 or early 2018.
TSRGD 2016:
what’s changing
• Radical new structure.
• Fewer complete signs shown.
• Choose symbols and text from different tables.
• More flexibility of wording: “any two of the descriptions”,
“in any combination as appropriate”, “types of user”.
• Fewer specific Regulations and Directions, but those
still applying are mostly in tables close by.
• Incorporates Pedestrian Crossings Regs, area-wide
authorisations (currently only for England) and other
frequently authorised signs.
No requirement to make a TRO for these measures?
Local consultation recommended (but not mandatory)
Any lengths of
single and
double yellow
lines (but not
loading bans).
Mandatory school
entrance clearways
Relaxing the need
for a traffic order
Mandatory with-flow
cycle lanes
Innovations
• Only legally need a single terminal sign
• No repeaters legally required.
• Link between signs and markings removed in most cases.
• Parking bays can be any size and almost any type of white
dotted or solid line, or can be coloured surfacing or edged
with distinctive (flush or raised) pavers.
• No traffic orders for school keep clear or with-flow
mandatory cycle lanes.
• Reduced legal need for electrical illumination.
• Type approval ends. TOPAS a voluntary replacement.
• No DfT permission needed for ‘Stop’ signs.
What’s not changing
• Existing signs can remain indefinitely
• Most existing prescribed signs & markings can
still be used
• Existing authorisations remain valid
• The appearance of most signs does not change
• Traffic Signs Manual (rather than TSRGD)
should be the first reference used and will
become even more important, but will not be
updated for new TSRGD until later.
A new way
to specify parking plates
Options to add panels and to place any of a wide range of
prescribed symbols and legends in any position
Schedule 4 Part 4Symbols and legends used in combination with a white panel
Combining parking plates
From Traffic
Signs Manual
Chapter 3
Option to
combine plates
into a single
assembly.
IHE and BPA
preferred
arrangement.
These becomes legal:
and these:
A new definition of a CPZ
(a) an area—
(i) in which every part of every road is subject to a prohibition
indicated by single or double yellow lines or single or
double yellow kerb markings (except where parking spaces
have been provided, where entrance to or exit from the
road is made, where there is a prohibition or restriction on
waiting, stopping, loading or unloading indicated by a
different traffic sign or where there is a crossing) whether
or not an upright sign to indicate the same prohibition is
placed in conjunction with the line or kerb marking; and
(ii) into which each entrance for vehicular traffic has been
indicated by the sign provided for at item 1 or 3 of the sign
table in Part 3 of Schedule 5;
A new way
to indicate bays
• No legal link between parking plates and
markings: one or the other is sufficient, subject to
guidance and common sense.
• Bays can be marked with almost any solid or
intermittent white line.
• Bays can be indicated with coloured surfacing,
flush or raised pavers, etc.
• Bays can be any length and any width ≥ 1.8 m
(except for blue badge).
Breaking the legal link
(between signs and markings)
• ‘No loading at any time’ could be indicated without
signs, just with double ‘kerb blips’ (as trialled in
Westminster).
• Road marking text (Disabled, Loading only, etc.)
optional on bay markings if vertical sign present.
• Vertical sign could be omitted if road marking
clearly describes a 24/7 restriction.
• Does this avoid the need for a separate plate at
each individual bay or yellow line?
Only the adjudicators know the answer!
London & W. Midlands signs
to be usable anywhere
New TSRGD:
Benefits to authorities
• Fewer signs will be needed, so cost and clutter reduced.
• Initial cost and energy requirement reduced for the signs
no longer to need electrical illumination.
• New TSRGD intended to make it less easy for motorists to
get out of parking tickets and moving traffic offences on
technical grounds (but we’ll see).
• More flexibility, so fewer signs need individual
authorisation, allowing schemes to be implemented
quicker and with less work.
• Was billed as needing less ‘page turning’ to specify a sign
(but DfT lawyer has 3 separate copies open at different
pages!)
Concerns
• Authorities have less certainly over whether new signs
they erect will be enforceable or whether the parking
adjudicators/JPs will find some problem with them.
• Some authorities will be tempted to go for the
minimum cost option, even when drivers need more
than one sign or need a sign to be illuminated. Some
conscientious engineers fear being over-ruled by their
chief officers or elected members on these points.
• The inherent flexibility will cause some regional
variation to occur, making signing less consistent
across the country.