Traffic, within its 2022-2023 Road Safety Strategy plan, in addition to having the objective of reducing deaths and serious injuries in road accidents by 50% compared to the 2019 figures; The plan will intervene in matters such as road safety education, the establishment of a new driving license for minors over 16 years of age using personal mobility vehicles, as well as updating the catalog of signs.
The latter includes the renewal of vertical and horizontal signals (urban and interurban) that, after 18 years in force, they needed to be updated to the new mobility; and new ones will also be added with reference to new forms of mobility, such as electric scooters for example.
According to the Royal Decree that modifies the General Circulation Regulations, still a draft, for example, signal is updated STOP, that of pedestrian crossings, those of danger signals due to fog, as well as that of the proximity of a school zone, among others.
And the one called R-118, whose purpose is to indicate the prohibition of access of electric scooters to a certain area, will be one of the new signs. Next to it, the P-35 indicates the proximity of a twisted section where vehicles will share the same space at a fork with an entry and exit lane. The signals S-1b and S-2b that report the presence of a multilane pathway are also incorporated.
For its part, all the elements of the end of prohibition signs become black instead of gray, for better viewing on a white background.
Some examples
P‐35. Danger due to the proximity of a section between a confluence and a fork where different lane change movements are produced by vehicles, crossing their paths and therefore increasing the risk of collisions.
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P‐24a. Danger due to the proximity of a place where the road can frequently be crossed by animals in freedom, a very significant proportion of which are wild boars.
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P-33. Danger due to the proximity of a section in which circulation is frequently hampered by a notable loss of visibility due to fog, rain, snow, smoke, etc.
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P‐21b. Danger due to the proximity of a place frequented by the elderly, such as a center dedicated to the elderly, a residence, etc.
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R-118. Prohibition of access to personal mobility vehicles.
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R‐120. Prohibition of access to vehicles based on their environmental label or other established environmental criteria. The conditions will be specified on an S-860 supplemental panel or on a sign that includes the sign.
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S‐1c. Indicates the beginning of a 2+1 road, that is, one that has three traffic lanes and allows traffic in both directions. The central lane is intended to facilitate overtaking manoeuvres, being alternately reserved 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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R-422. Obligation for cycle users to continue on foot. If such obligation is limited to certain periods, it will be indicated by means of a supplementary panel.
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Likewise, there will be many signals that will stop being active. For example, signs R-308a, R-308b and R-309 that indicate the prohibition of parking on odd, even and limited use days.
And the new additions will be installed in the appropriate and necessary places for your information.