Motoring organisations should continue to be authorised to put up temporary signs and to use their own badges and colours. These signs should normally not remain up for more than six months (paragraph 203).
Signs indicating the telephone boxes and service centres of motoring organisations are not temporary and should be prescribed as traffic signs (paragraph 204).
Police signs should conform with Regulations. Police waiting restriction signs should be confined to two; for portable purposes a blue pyramidal sign is recommended with white or silver lettering; for fixing for longer periods, e.g. to lamp posts, a blue plate with white lettering. Signs are recommended with which the police should indicate 'Stop' and 'Slow'. The use by the police of a blue flashing beacon at accidents should be permitted (paragraph 205).
Traffic diversions should be indicated by highway authorities by black on white direction signs in lower-case lettering and including the word 'Diversion'. Conformity of signing throughout diversions is important.
When temporary mandatory or prohibitory signs are used they should be in the same form as the permanent sign.
Where roads have been made slippery by agricultural or industrial operations a temporary warning sign is recommended for use until the fouling can be removed.
Temporary warning signs should follow the Protocol in form (paragraph 206).
A sign is recommended to indicate 'Stop for weight check' (paragraph 207).
A flashing red light should not be used to give warning of need for special care. A flashing amber light should be used instead. The supporting structure should be marked with red and white sloping bands-not black and white, as at present allowed.
The use of temporary flashing beacons should be permitted to the police, highway authorities, motoring organisations and the Road Research Laboratory; and to road contractors with the consent of the appropriate highway authority (paragraph 208).
In any revision of the British Standard on bollards more attention should be given to performance standards and local authorities should ensure that the bollards they purchase conform with these standards (paragraph 210).
A designer should be appointed to design a new bollard and should bear in mind that the bollard should not be so high as to obscure small children or block the line of sight of drivers in low-seated cars; that conspicuousness by night and day should be improved, tests being done to determine the relative advantages of white and amber lighting; that resistance to impact by vehicles should approximate to that of present box-type bollards; that there should be
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