Light signals above the carriagewayE+W+S
16.—(1) The height of the centre of each light signal incorporated into a sign provided for at item 32, 33 or 34 of the sign table in Part 2 (a downward green arrow, a red cross and a diagonal white arrow, respectively) must be not less than 5.5 metres nor more than 9 metres from the surface of the carriageway in the immediate vicinity.
(2) The signals must be designed so that only one symbol is illuminated over the traffic lane in question at any one time and the arrow or cross shows a steady light.
(3) The significance of the light signals is that—
(a)except when placed above an actively managed hard shoulder, the red cross conveys to vehicular traffic proceeding in the traffic lane above which it is displayed the prohibition that such traffic must not proceed beyond the red cross in that traffic lane until that prohibition is cancelled by a display—
(i)over that traffic lane, of the downward green arrow or the diagonal white arrow; or
(ii)over that traffic lane or beside the carriageway, of the “End of lane control” sign provided for at item 40 of the Part 2 sign table;
(b)when placed over an actively managed hard shoulder the red cross conveys to vehicular traffic that the restrictions on the use of the hard shoulder imposed by regulation 9 of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982(1) or regulation 8 of the Motorways Traffic (Scotland) Regulations 1995(2) for the time being apply to the hard shoulder, until those restrictions are—
(i)cancelled by the display over the actively managed hard shoulder of the maximum speed limit sign; or
(ii)superseded by the display over the actively managed hard shoulder of the red cross sign provided for at item 14 of the sign table in Part 2 of Schedule 15;
(c)the downward green arrow conveys to vehicular traffic proceeding in the traffic lane above which it is displayed the information that such traffic may proceed or continue to do so in the lane beneath the arrow; and
(d)the diagonal white arrow conveys to vehicular traffic proceeding in the traffic lane above which it is displayed the warning that such traffic should move into the adjacent traffic lane in the direction indicated by the arrow as soon as traffic conditions permit.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 14 Pt. 1 para. 16 in force at 22.4.2016, see reg. 1(b)
S.I. 1982/1163, amended by S.I. 2015/392; there are other amendments but none is relevant.
S.I. 1995/2507; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.