Road Sign question - what does it mean?

[TonyHetherington]

Hi all

A question to me from a colleague of mine; there's a road sign she has seen which is a blue circle with a white border and white diagonal line through it. She asked me what it means and I had no idea - so went onto the DVLA site (which is appauling, by the way) looking for all the different signs etc and I simply can't find it.

I confirmed with her that's how it looked (i.e. confirmed description) and she said yes.

I'm stumped! Anyone seen it before?

Thanks!
Tony

[saaby93]

Dont they use those ( with a symbol) on pavements to show pedestrians one side and cylists the other?
In which case it's the end of pedestrians and cyclists

[TonyHetherington]

I thought that, but she said it's a diagonal line, not vertical (I thought they showed vertical lines showing the bike/pedestrian split)?

[Vaux]

It's not a keep left/right with the arrow head messed around with?

[Tunku]

TonyHetherington said:

Hi all

A question to me from a colleague of mine; there's a road sign she has seen which is a blue circle with a white border and white diagonal line through it. She asked me what it means and I had no idea - so went onto the DVLA site (which is appauling, by the way) looking for all the different signs etc and I simply can't find it.

I confirmed with her that's how it looked (i.e. confirmed description) and she said yes.

I'm stumped! Anyone seen it before?

Thanks!
Tony

Something to do with cement?

[TonyHetherington]

Vaux said:

It's not a keep left/right with the arrow head messed around with?

I hadn't thought of that - perhaps so! She will pass it again tomrorow morning (on way to work) so will get her to double check. Or pull over and take a picture!

Cement - I had to think, but then it did make me chuckle!

[jshell]

End of minimum speed limit?

[marshalla]

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Hig...

but nothing like the one you describe apart from a distorted keep left/right

[Vaux]

jshell said:

End of minimum speed limit?

That's a blue circle with white numerals and a red diagonal line across it.

[7db]

No idea, but I bet there's a PCN of £60 for disobeying it and the council can go through your rubbish to find out if you did or not.

[skeggysteve]

jshell said:

End of minimum speed limit?

Close but that has a red line!



This website has all the road signs but I couldn't see one as described.

[p1esk]

I say again:

We have too many types of signs and too much deployment of them.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

[TonyHetherington]

Good stuff all - I'm glad you didn't know either! I'll go and double check myself I think, or get her to confirm on way in tomorrow. Will keep you posted

Thanks!

[oldsoak]

TonyHetherington said:

Hi all

A question to me from a colleague of mine; there's a road sign she has seen which is a blue circle with a white border and white diagonal line through it. She asked me what it means and I had no idea - so went onto the DVLA site (which is appauling, by the way) looking for all the different signs etc and I simply can't find it.

I confirmed with her that's how it looked (i.e. confirmed description) and she said yes.

I'm stumped! Anyone seen it before?

Thanks!
Tony

We need pictures!
I'm guessing the sign she saw was


and she failed to notice it was an arrow not a diagonal line....

[dudley71]

Thanks!
Tony
[/quote]
We need pictures!
I'm guessing the sign she saw was


and she failed to notice it was an arrow not a diagonal line....
[/quote]

When these are used near roadworks, they sometimes use a detachable arrow point - perhaps it fell off.

[streaky]

dudley71 said:

Thanks!
Tony

[quote]
We need pictures!
I'm guessing the sign she saw was


and she failed to notice it was an arrow not a diagonal line....

When these are used near roadworks, they sometimes use a detachable arrow point - perhaps it fell off.

Never seen one with a detachable arrow-head ... and why would you need one? The usual style for temporary ones has a rotatable white bar (with integral arrow-head) which is locked in place (pointing left or right as needed) by a screw - Streaky

Edited by streaky on Friday 20th November 19:55

[Skodaku]

Tunku said:

TonyHetherington said:

Hi all

A question to me from a colleague of mine; there's a road sign she has seen which is a blue circle with a white border and white diagonal line through it. She asked me what it means and I had no idea - so went onto the DVLA site (which is appauling, by the way) looking for all the different signs etc and I simply can't find it.

I confirmed with her that's how it looked (i.e. confirmed description) and she said yes.

I'm stumped! Anyone seen it before?

Thanks!
Tony

Something to do with cement?

Intelligent and funny. Nice one.

[Mojooo]

Skodaku said:

Tunku said:

TonyHetherington said:

Hi all

A question to me from a colleague of mine; there's a road sign she has seen which is a blue circle with a white border and white diagonal line through it. She asked me what it means and I had no idea - so went onto the DVLA site (which is appauling, by the way) looking for all the different signs etc and I simply can't find it.

I confirmed with her that's how it looked (i.e. confirmed description) and she said yes.

I'm stumped! Anyone seen it before?

Thanks!
Tony

Something to do with cement?

Intelligent and funny. Nice one.

I dont get it

[Dogwatch]

Mojooo said:

Skodaku said:

Tunku said:

TonyHetherington said:

Hi all

A question to me from a colleague of mine; there's a road sign she has seen which is a blue circle with a white border and white diagonal line through it. She asked me what it means and I had no idea - so went onto the DVLA site (which is appauling, by the way) looking for all the different signs etc and I simply can't find it.

I confirmed with her that's how it looked (i.e. confirmed description) and she said yes.

I'm stumped! Anyone seen it before?

Thanks!
Tony

Something to do with cement?

Intelligent and funny. Nice one.

I dont get it

Oh dear! It's getting late.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Circle_Industrie...

Owned by the froggies now I think. Sigh....

[Red Devil]

Dogwatch said:

Mojooo said:

Skodaku said:

Tunku said:

TonyHetherington said:

Hi all

A question to me from a colleague of mine; there's a road sign she has seen which is a blue circle with a white border and white diagonal line through it. She asked me what it means and I had no idea - so went onto the DVLA site (which is appauling, by the way) looking for all the different signs etc and I simply can't find it.

I confirmed with her that's how it looked (i.e. confirmed description) and she said yes.

I'm stumped! Anyone seen it before?

Thanks!
Tony

Something to do with cement?

Intelligent and funny. Nice one.

I dont get it

Oh dear! It's getting late.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Circle_Industrie...

Owned by the froggies now I think. Sigh....

Yup. Lafarge in 2001.
It was not a merger but a takeover. No exchange of Blue Circle shares for Lafarge ones. All the Blue Circle shareholders were bought out for a consideration in cash. No prizes for guessing how I know.....