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Passing Place Signs.
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See here for more information: Single track road
From the SABRE Wiki: Single track road :
A single track road, sometimes referred to as S1, is a single carriageway road which is only wide enough for a single lane of traffic to pass at a time. Passing places are usually provided to allow traffic to pass either in opposing directions or to overtake slower vehicles. Single track roads are found on routes with low volumes of traffic so are usually B, C or unclassified roads, but some A roads and trunk roads with low traffic volumes also have sections of single track,
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Not only that, but where tramways do exist all their drivers will be route-trained and will probably only drive the same few miles every day, so tram drivers are unlikely to be confused by anybody else's signs.Viator wrote:I don't know when it happened, but I believe that the "reasoning" was that diamond-shaped signs were to be reserved for those giving instructions to tram drivers. So many tramways on rural Highland roads, after all...
In fact you have more chance of a motorist being confused between motorway blue and cycle-lane blue.
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Generally you'll only find the new signs where old ones have been replaced, and given that in some areas the passing place sign in use is still a wooden pole painted black and white, or the earlier small diamond which is often now a black sign with rust coloured writing...
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There's a blank section below the sign so that part can be mounted to the post and the sign plate can be double sided.Nwallace wrote:What is also very odd about the new Passing Place signs is that they are now often on rectangular plates so there's a grey oblong above the sign itself.
Which works fine until it eventually gets bent by the wind,
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I remember being stuck behind a tractor & trailer for miles near Leek a few years ago because the driver seemed oblivious to the traffic behind them & passed a few places it would have been easy to pull into.ScottB5411 wrote:I utterly dispise people who do not pull over and let traffic behind them pass on single track roads and they are usually the ones that don't know how to or want to make good progress. They never pull over and end up with a stream of angry drivers behind them.
My Dad was fuming at time being so inattentive.
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It's hardly like are ever going to be confused for tramway signs.