2023-10-11 13:54:12
The new General Traffic Regulations bring with them new signs. So before we ends this 2023 we will see them on streets and highways. A much-needed update that “reflects the change in today’s mobility,” he details. Ana BlancoDeputy Deputy Director of Traffic at the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT).
In fact, it tries to “adapt aspects of signage, especially some older ones, to changes in the field of mobility, especially in relation to modifications in vehicle technology and other aspects in a way that continues to maintain the highest level as a semiotic system, guaranteeing adequate understanding by all users to guarantee road safety and efficient travel,” explains the project.
What’s more, to respond to requests from city councils and Parliament on the adaptation of traffic signage to new technological, mobility and gender equality aspects and establish a homogeneous basis for new regulations such as Low Emission Zones (ZBE). . And these are the ten most innovative, according to the DGT.
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Crossing for pedestrians and cyclists: Danger due to the proximity of a pedestrian crossing attached to or shared with a crossing for cyclists. (It should be remembered that at a pedestrian crossing (P-20a) cyclists must get off their bicycles and walk, while at cyclist crossings, they can ride on them.)
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Passage of free animals (wild boars): Danger due to the proximity of a place where the road can frequently be crossed by free animals, with a very significant proportion being wild boars. (Indicates the same as P-24 – passage of free animals – but warns of the possibility that they are wild boars).
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Reduced visibility: Danger due to the proximity of a section in which traffic is frequently hindered by a notable loss of visibility due to fog, rain, snow, smoke, etc. (It has been changed to avoid possible confusion with, for example, possible falling objects or stones.)
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Prohibited entry to personal mobility vehicles: Prohibition of access to personal mobility vehicles. (It is a new signal and affects all VMPs and not just scooters).
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Prohibited entry to vehicles based on environmental distinctive or other environmental criteria: Prohibition of access to vehicles based on their environmental distinctive or other environmental criteria that are established. The conditions will be specified on a complementary panel S-860 or on a sign in which the sign is included, referring where appropriate to the classification of each vehicle based on its environmental distinctive, as established by regulation.
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2+1 Highway: Indicates the beginning of a 2+1 highway, that is, one that consists of three traffic lanes and allows circulation in both directions. The center lane is intended to facilitate overtaking maneuvers, being reserved alternately for both directions of traffic. This sign can also indicate the branch of a junction that leads to a 2+1 road.
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Coexistence zone: Indicates a circulation zone that is intended primarily for pedestrians and in which the following special traffic rules apply: the maximum speed of vehicles will be 20 km/h; circulation is shared between vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians; Pedestrians have priority, they can use the entire circulation area and therefore no pedestrian crossings are marked; the cycles and, where applicable, the VMP can circulate in both directions, unless the competent authority establishes otherwise; Vehicles may be parked only in places designated by signs or markings; games and sports are not authorized.
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Lane reserved for vehicles with high occupancy: Indicates one or more lanes intended exclusively for the circulation of vehicles with high occupancy. The image will show the number of people from whom high occupancy is considered, which will be determined by the competent managing body in each case. If the lane or lanes is reserved not only for HOV but also for one or more other specific types of vehicles, the corresponding images may be combined in the same way as in sign S-51a.
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This last sign indicates the location of a fuel pump or service station, including LPG, electric recharging or several of them.
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Surveillance by automatic means: Indicates the surveillance by automatic means of capture and reporting, of compliance with what is established by the vertical sign it accompanies.
Finally, point out that when several signs coincide on the same section and their messages are contradictory, which one applies? For example, who should we obey at a red light if an officer gives way? The order of priority between signs is in the authority agents responsible for traffic, then circumstantial and beacon signs, traffic lights, vertical signs and finally road markings. What if two signs from the same group contradict each other, two different speed limits, for example? In this case, it will always be necessary to obey the most restrictive one.
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