'Cyclists Dismount', should we?

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Re: 'Cyclists Dismount', should we?

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Mark1978 wrote:At the bottom of Northumberland Street (Newcastles main shopping street and pedestrianised) there is a red roundel with a cycle diagram but it's crossed out. I commented to my friend that meant cycling up there would be ok as that sign has no meaning.

It is the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) or byelaw which you must obey, not the sign. And the offence won't be for ignoring the sign, but for doing something that is against the law or TRO.
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Mark1978 wrote:At the bottom of Northumberland Street (Newcastles main shopping street and pedestrianised) there is a red roundel with a cycle diagram but it's crossed out. I commented to my friend that meant cycling up there would be ok as that sign has no meaning.


Is there a streetview? The google car seems to have respected the pedestrianisation but I can't pick up the signs you refer to. :?
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Vorpal wrote:
Mark1978 wrote:At the bottom of Northumberland Street (Newcastles main shopping street and pedestrianised) there is a red roundel with a cycle diagram but it's crossed out. I commented to my friend that meant cycling up there would be ok as that sign has no meaning.

It is the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) or byelaw which you must obey, not the sign. And the offence won't be for ignoring the sign, but for doing something that is against the law or TRO.


The TRO is only enforceable if the required signage is there to back it up. Both sides need to be in compliance otherwise you could be prosecuted for a completely unsigned restriction.
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thirdcrank wrote:
Mark1978 wrote:At the bottom of Northumberland Street (Newcastles main shopping street and pedestrianised) there is a red roundel with a cycle diagram but it's crossed out. I commented to my friend that meant cycling up there would be ok as that sign has no meaning.


Is there a streetview? The google car seems to have respected the pedestrianisation but I can't pick up the signs you refer to. :?


On Streetview there seems to be some sort of work going on and the sign isn't there. It was definitely there Sunday before last when I cycled past. (I didn't cycle up the street, no need to)
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Vorpal wrote:
Mark1978 wrote:At the bottom of Northumberland Street (Newcastles main shopping street and pedestrianised) there is a red roundel with a cycle diagram but it's crossed out. I commented to my friend that meant cycling up there would be ok as that sign has no meaning.

It is the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) or byelaw which you must obey, not the sign. And the offence won't be for ignoring the sign, but for doing something that is against the law or TRO.

But if the TRO requires traffic signs to be in place they must be the correct signs:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/section/4
(1)A traffic regulation order may make provision for identifying any part of any road to which, or any time at which or period during which, any provision contained in the order is for the time being to apply by means of a traffic sign of a type or character specified in the order (being a type prescribed or character authorised under section 64 of this Act) and for the time being lawfully in place; and for the purposes of any such order so made any such traffic sign placed on and near a road shall be deemed to be lawfully in place unless the contrary is proved


In this case it may be academic because the intent of the sign is obvious but can a TRO ever be enforceable if its provisions for signage are not complied with? When I see that kind of unapproved sign, I tend to assume they have not been erected by the relevant authority and are not legally binding.
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I've always read that a non compliant sign is at bet just random colours on a pole at worst an unlawful obstruction of the highway.
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IIRC, a rectangular sign is an ‘Information’ sign.

The sign in question informs the cyclist it would be a good idea to dismount, so avoiding collision with a pedestrian, perambulator or tartan shopping trolley.
When there are no pedestrians, perambulators or tartan shopping trollies, there is no reason to follow the sign’s suggestion.

They are a product of the golden ‘Job’sworth’ capped council street planning officer.

Any semi to high intelligent cyclist will know not to ride into a pedestrian, perambulator or tartan shopping trolley.
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I think it would be unusual - as in extremely unlikely - that a highway authority would put up a sign of the wrong design. This is because the road plan specifies the diagram number as in TRSGD. They don't specify say, a "no cycling" sign and then leave that to somebody else's artistic licence. NB I'm not saying that the wrong diagram is not specified, or that signs are not left in place long after a road layout has been altered.) IIME non-compliant signs are much more likely to be found on private property eg supermarket car parks.
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thirdcrank wrote:I think it would be unusual - as in extremely unlikely - that a highway authority would put up a sign of the wrong design.


You'd be surprised. Its more common than you might think. You'd think there might be a central warehouse from which they could order standard signs but apparently not. IIRC we had a load of wrong way cycling penalties cancelled locally a few years ago because the diameter of the No Entry sign was wrong.
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TonyR wrote: ... You'd be surprised. Its more common than you might think. You'd think there might be a central warehouse from which they could order standard signs but apparently not. IIRC we had a load of wrong way cycling penalties cancelled locally a few years ago because the diameter of the No Entry sign was wrong.


Without knowing the details of a particular case, it's hard to comment, but a sign of the wrong size in one location might be OK in another. eg Speed limit repeaters on motorways are the same size as the ordinary signs at the start of an ordinary speed limit and, in any event, the diagram number of a sign only specifies its design (shape, colours and logo) rather than its size. I wasn't talking about errors like that but DIY variations to the TSRGD diagrams.

There is, of course, plenty of well- reported loopholery around traffic signs.
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thirdcrank wrote:
TonyR wrote: ... You'd be surprised. Its more common than you might think. You'd think there might be a central warehouse from which they could order standard signs but apparently not. IIRC we had a load of wrong way cycling penalties cancelled locally a few years ago because the diameter of the No Entry sign was wrong.


Without knowing the details of a particular case, it's hard to comment, but a sign of the wrong size in one location might be OK in another.


Nope. For a No Entry sign TSRGD specifies that it can only be 270, 450, 600, 750, 900 or 1200mm diameter with no variants permitted.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002 ... 113_en_034

eg Speed limit repeaters on motorways are the same size as the ordinary signs at the start of an ordinary speed limit and, in any event, the diagram number of a sign only specifies its design (shape, colours and logo) rather than its size.


Nope again. The speed limit sign can only be 300, 450, 600, 750, 900, 1200 or 1500mm diameter with no permitted size variants. The national speed limit sign can be any of those except 300mm with no variants.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002 ... 113_en_064
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TonyR

If you are saying that the sign was of a size not specified anywhere, it's obviously wrong, and I don't think I've suggested anything different, although I'm surprised this would happen, if only because it needs a conscious decision to make something that's not a standard size. Take this back to the original point I was trying to make about a NO CYCLING sign. There was some discussion about an unauthorised version with a red diagonal. We had another thread about something similar a while ago where there was one on the approach to a Tesco car park. I'm only saying that I'd be surprised if something like that were to be erected by a highway authority because among all the cock-ups etc., I'd not expect improvisation. There are, of course, all sorts of variations which have been authorised by the Secretary of State to meet local circumstances.

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PS My query about a streetview higher up wasn't because I doubted the existence of the sign but, as it was in some sort of pedestrian precinct, I wondered if it might have been some private developer's sign.
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Post by FatBat »

TC, there is a "No No Cycling" sign (red roundel with crossed out bike symbol) on the entry to Brighouse Bus Station - which is a bit closer to home. From my untrained eye, it looks to be on the public highway, rather than on private land. Of course, Streetview does not show it, unfortunately.
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FatBat wrote:TC, there is a "No No Cycling" sign (red roundel with crossed out bike symbol) on the entry to Brighouse Bus Station - which is a bit closer to home. From my untrained eye, it looks to be on the public highway, rather than on private land. Of course, Streetview does not show it, unfortunately.


Here's another at a bus station - Batley - which does appear on streetview.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=batley ... 73.54,,0,0

A bit further into the bus station there's also a NO PEDESTRIANS sign with the red diagonal and FWIW, a pedestrian crossing without zig-zags or beacons.
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Bicycler wrote:Sorry :oops: (was trying to clarify things)

Mine wasn't a comment on your clarification (for which much thanks) just on how insane the rules have become. :wink:
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