Regulatory Traffic Signs

Regulatory Traffic Signs

  This section includes the signs that show a road regulation is in place. These must be obeyed.

Regulatory signs show the course a driver must follow and an action they are required to take or forbidden to take.
They are generally circular and have a red border and black symbols or letters on a white background. Mandatory regulatory
signs that indicate the direction traffic must take at junctions are blue and white.

Advance direction signs

Stop

Stop

Yield

Yield

Yield

Yield

School wardens stop sign

School Wardens Stop Sign

 

No Left Turn

No Left Turn

No Entry

No Entry

No Right Turn

No Right Turn

Parking prohibited

Parking Prohibited

 

Clearway

Clearway

Max speed limit 30km:h

Max Speed Limit 30km/h

Max speed limit 50km:h

Max Speed Limit 50km/h

Max speed limit 60km:h

Max Speed Limit 60km/h

 

Max speed limit 80km:h

Max Speed Limit 80km/h

Max speed limit 100km:h

Max Speed Limit 100km/h

Max speed limit 120km:h

Max Speed Limit 120km/h

Taxi rank

Taxi Rank

 

No entry for large vehicles (by refernce to weight)

No entry for large vehicles(by reference to weight)

No U-turn

No U-Turn

No overtaking

No Overtaking

Height restriction

Height Restriction

 

Pedestrianised street

Parking permitted

Disc parking plate

Zonal restriction - no parking od large vehciles

Zonal restriction – no parking of large vehicles

 

Mandatory signs at junctions (white and blue)

 

Turn left ahead

Turn Left Ahead

Turn right ahead

Turn Right Ahead

Turn left

Turn Left

Turn right

Turn Right

 

Pass either side

Pass either side

Straight ahead

Straight Ahead

Keep Left

Keep Left

Keep right

Keep Right

 

Manual traffic control sign at roadworks

 

No entry for pedestrians to tramway

No entry for pedestrians to tramway

Stop

Stop

Go

Either form of Go

Go

or Téigh can be used

 

No entry to goods vehicles (by reference to number of axles)

No entry to goods vehicles (by reference to number of axles)

With flow bus lane on left

With flow bus lane on left

With flow bus lane on right

With flow bus lane on right

Contra flow bus lane

Contra flow bus lane

 

Tram lane on left

Tram lane on left

Tram lane on right

Tram lane on right

Start of cycle track

Start of cycle track

End of cycle track

End of cycle track

 

Electronic variable speed limit sign (tunnel only)

Electronic variable speed limit sign (tunnel only)

No overtaking for three-axle vehicles

In a tunnel goods vehicles cannot use right-hand lane (by reference to number of axles)

Electronic periodic speed limit sign

Electronic periodic speed limit sign

Electronic periodic speed limit sign at school

Electronic periodic speed limit sign at school

 

Tram only street

Tram only street

Tram and access only street

Tram and access only street

Bus only street

Bus only street

 

Traffic lane control signs in a tunnel

 

Go (Lane open)

Go (Lane open)

Stop (Lane closed)

Stop (Lane closed)

Move into the left-hand lane

Move into the left-hand lane

Move into the right-hand lane

Move into the right-hand lane