Review fails to address major traffic sign issues
A three-year review of traffic signs has failed to address major problems with the UK’s signs. On 13 October the Department for Transport published the final report of its Traffic Signs Policy Review....
View ArticleDfT rejects industry view on metric signs
The Department for Transport (DfT) has given in to anti-metric lobbying and backtracked on its earlier proposal that imperial-only height and width restriction signs should be replaced with dual...
View ArticleDfT admits: no basis for blocking metric signs
After finally admitting they were wrong to try to withhold this information, the DfT have now published their analysis of the responses to their earlier consultation on the proposed phasing out of...
View ArticleHowe calls for metrication progress
Lord Howe of Aberavon, the former Conservative Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister, intervened in the Queen’s Speech debate on Tuesday to reiterate his call for the Government to complete the...
View ArticleIreland’s road signs revisited
In Ireland, the changeover from Imperial to metric of its highway distance signs began in the 1990s. This was followed by the change of speed limit signs, which took place over a week-end in January...
View ArticleGovernment decision contradicts road safety initiatives
The Government has been accused of failing to implement the strategies necessary to achieve goals agreed as part of two major international road safety initiatives. Furthermore, its decision on width...
View Article“No more imperial-only vehicle signs” says UKMA
In its response to a Department for Transport consultation the UK Metric Association has recommended that the erection of new vehicle height, width and length restriction signs that display only feet...
View ArticleMinor success for UKMA – imperial-only height and width signs to be discontinued
The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced a tiny but significant piece of progress on the long road to completing metrication in the UK. On Saturday 8 November the DfT published its response to...
View ArticleSigns of the times
We compare the Government’s different approaches to two separate proposals for new road signs. Readers of Metric Views may remember the Government’s rejection of proposals to phase out imperial-only...
View ArticleAnother bridge bashed
John Frewen-Lord posted this comment on Metric Views but was unable to add the pictures that he took at the scene. We can, and accordingly we have made it the subject of a short article. “@Charlie P 2...
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