NSL Sign 1056

Perhaps. There is a better example though; The traffic merges from the left (or right) sign; The one that you usually see on DCs before a slip road joins and at the top of DC slip roads on the way to joining 1. The last time that sign was published in any book that is generally available to the public it's meaning was VERY specific. Traffic merges from the left (or right) WITH EQUAL PRIORITY.

You may have noticed that recently the sign has changed in a subtle way. The sign always used to be just an inverted 'y' shape with both branches the same thickness and indeed many examples still are. The new version of the sign now shows a thick line denoting the main carriageway and a thinner line for the slip road. This is new and it is not published anywhere the general public would normally look.

As far as I can work out, the new sign is simply part of the family of junction warning signs where the thicker line denotes priority through the junction. This is rather a fundamental change and it is hardly surprising that there is some confusion as to who has priority at the end of a DC slip road. If the old sign is present and the last place that information was published says that it is EQUAL PRIORITY then is it? The new version of the sign is not published in the usual places so how is a driver, who doesn't have old copies of HC and Road Signs books to know what it means?

That's not the only kind of restriction, it could have been weight, height or width. The symbol behind the lines could well have been faded if the sign is old.

1 I'm sure someone will post a link to relevant TSRGD document showing a picture. :-)

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