PROHIBITION OF WAITING FOR LESS THAN 24 HOURS
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639 Prohibition of waiting during the period
| Permitted variants |
The arrow may be reversed or omitted. The time periods may be varied and dates may be added. |
| Road markings |
1017 |
6.9 When the prohibition of waiting applies for a period less than 24 hours each day, diagram 639 is used, with the appropriate times displayed. The sign may be varied to include dates if the prohibition does not apply all year round. The associated marking is always the single yellow line to diagram 1017. Where a prohibition of loading also applies, the combined sign to diagram 640 is used, together with the single yellow line and the single kerb mark (diagram 1019).
PROHIBITION OF WAITING ON VERGE OR FOOTWAY
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640 Prohibition of waiting and of loading and unloading during the periods indicated
| Permitted variants | One or both of the arrows may be reversed or omitted. The time periods may be varied and dates added.
The upper panel may be varied to indicated diagram 637.3 or 650.3. |
| Road Markings | As for diagrams 637.3, 639 and 638.1. Additionally 1028.2 when upper panel is varied to diagram 650.3 (see para 6.14). |
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637.1 Continuous prohibition of waiting on verge or footway
| Permitted variants |
An arrow may be added pointing to variants the left or to the right. The sign shown in diagram 642 may be substituted for the symbol. |
| Road markings |
None |
6.10 As described in para 6.2, a prohibition of waiting extends from the centre of the road to the highway boundary. However, there might be certain situations where it is required to prohibit waiting on the verge or footway, but not on the main carriageway. This is most likely on rural roads subject to an order that prohibits stopping on the main carriageway (i.e. a 24-hour rural clearway; see paras 9.3 to 9.8). It might be desirable to prevent waiting on a verge because the ground is soft or newly seeded, or perhaps for road safety or security reasons, such as near an airfield. In this case, the sign to diagram 637.1 is used, with no road markings. It may indicate "verge", "footway" or both, and the "no waiting" symbol may be varied to the "no stopping" symbol shown in diagram 642. The latter applies where the order prohibits stopping rather than waiting.
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