The Moto™ Highway Code

[Andy33gmail]

Just a bit of fun ... literal interpretaton of service station road signs/markings

Shall we start with the 10mph minimum speed limit?

(https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.64224 ... 6656?hl=en)

[nowster]

Did CBRD's page on Moto signs survive the refurbishment?

[avtur]

Shall we start with the 10mph minimum speed limit?

Minimum ???

[nowster]

Shall we start with the 10mph minimum speed limit?

Minimum ???

Blue roundel.

[Big L]

I prefer their prohibitions.

[Andy33gmail]

I prefer their prohibitions.

Crossing the road not permitted

[Big L]

I prefer their prohibitions.

Crossing the road not permitted

There are Give Way Prohibited signs around. Here's one at Frankley.

[Andy33gmail]

Oncoming traffic prohibited is a good one. Who's committing the offence?

[Chris5156]

Did CBRD's page on Moto signs survive the refurbishment?

It met its maker about three years before that!

[Bryn666]

https://showmeasignblog.wordpress.com/2 ... ade-signs/

I took the baton somewhat...

[Andy33gmail]

https://showmeasignblog.wordpress.com/2 ... ade-signs/

I took the baton somewhat...

I did enjoy that

[Big L]

Just popped into Ferrybridge services and spotted this wonderous bit of road marking. Just a reminder : '&'.

[Brigham]

One of my pet hates is 'bogus' road signs on private roads.
It gives people the impression that they have certain 'rights', other than those embodied in common law.
No, chav; a home-made Belisha beacon with a 'school' sign halfway down it does NOT give you a right to walk out in front of my car, and bang on the bonnet with a can of Special Brew!.

[Nwallace]

There leads a question; sincethe Road Traffic Act applies to any road the public has access to,
Is a non-TRSGD sign an obstruction?
Is disobeying the TRSGD definition of a sign an offence if the land owner has incorrectly used one of the TRSGD diagram for the wrong purpose?

[Little Owl]

This is the best that I can get with the “You must rocking horse” sign.

In all honesty, it is (or was) technically the Granada Highway Code: if I recall correctly, such signs were there during the latter days when an ITV station had a spin-off that ran motorway service stations.

Photo: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-grana ... 81150.html (the corporate design road sign is on far left).

[Nwallace]

This is the best that I can get with the “You must rocking horse” sign.

In all honesty, it is (or was) technically the Granada Highway Code: if I recall correctly, such signs were there during the latter days when an ITV station had a spin-off that ran motorway service stations.

Photo: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-grana ... 81150.html (the corporate design road sign is on far left).

Nah the TV company was a spin off of a theater company that also rented tellys and had quite a large catering division that happened to run some service stations

[Little Owl]

Found the original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20060426182 ... oservices/

However, based on the Alamy photo, the signage are all from the Granada days, just continued by Moto for some time.

[Brigham]

Interesting link.
I'm assuming the 'narrator' is having a laugh, in the same was as Richard III reading out the lyrics to 'A Hard Day's Night'.
Every one of MOTO's signs is perfectly understandable, and most avoid giving a false air of 'legal enforcement'.
Well Done Mr. Moto.
(Sounds like a Peter Lorre thriller!)

[Johnathan404]

In all honesty, it is (or was) technically the Granada Highway Code: if I recall correctly, such signs were there during the latter days when an ITV station had a spin-off that ran motorway service stations.

You are quite correct - they were created by Pentagram for Granada in the 1996 rebranding exercise, replacing signs like these. I’ve got the full “Highway Code” they created somewhere, including the arrows which are the wrong way around.

Jokes about circles aside, the problem is it takes far too long to process the information within them. I’ve noticed lately Moto have finally started sticking up giant canvases with messages like “HGVs this way”.

I'm assuming the 'narrator' is having a laugh, in the same was as Richard III reading out the lyrics to 'A Hard Day's Night'.
Every one of MOTO's signs is perfectly understandable, and most avoid giving a false air of 'legal enforcement'.

Chris says exactly that in said link!

[Chris5156]

However, based on the Alamy photo, the signage are all from the Granada days, just continued by Moto for some time.

No, the first set of signs on that page ("do not give way" etc) were introduced when the Moto brand was created. The second set, on the grey and white striped poles, were used by Granada.

Interesting link.
I'm assuming the 'narrator' is having a laugh, in the same was as Richard III reading out the lyrics to 'A Hard Day's Night'.

The "narrator" would be me. Yes, it was not a serious article - and the paragraph at the end says as much. But as long as there is an existing traffic sign in TSRGD that is designed to convey a particular message, there's really no good reason for anyone to design their own version, which is what Moto quite needlessly deided to do. Consistency has real benefits for safety and speed of comprehension.