White on Red Roadworks Signs - Enforceable?
Discussion
They've closed a 30 metre section of B road locally for barrier improvements (for a month), the official diversion is approximately 10 miles and takes you through an already congested city (when many who normally use the B road have no need to go into the city), so has massively increased journey times.
There are 4 incredibly narrow unclassified roads (wide enough for one car but with passing places) through a small village near the closure itself which in theory remove the need to follow the diversion and only add a few hundred yards onto the original journey, however these have all had white on red 'Road Closed except for Residents and Public Service Vehicles' signs at either end of them put in place, presumably to try and stop an obvious rat-run.
It would appear that a significant number of people ignore these (due to my location I can use a longer but quicker alternative A road diversion that happens to pass the junctions to all of these roads), and they actually block the A road for lengthy periods waiting to turn into these 'closed' roads.
Are the white on reds enforceable? I'm not suggesting they should or would, just interested as they are widely ignored it must be driving the villagers mad.
There are 4 incredibly narrow unclassified roads (wide enough for one car but with passing places) through a small village near the closure itself which in theory remove the need to follow the diversion and only add a few hundred yards onto the original journey, however these have all had white on red 'Road Closed except for Residents and Public Service Vehicles' signs at either end of them put in place, presumably to try and stop an obvious rat-run.
It would appear that a significant number of people ignore these (due to my location I can use a longer but quicker alternative A road diversion that happens to pass the junctions to all of these roads), and they actually block the A road for lengthy periods waiting to turn into these 'closed' roads.
Are the white on reds enforceable? I'm not suggesting they should or would, just interested as they are widely ignored it must be driving the villagers mad.
If the relevant Highway Authority has a TRO in place, yes, they are. However the offence is ignoring the TRO rather than the sign.
RTRA 1984 Section 14 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/sectio...
RTRA 1984 Section 16 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/sectio...
Punishment: a fine at Level 3 on the standard scale. RTOA 1988 Schedule 2
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/schedu...
If caught by the police (somewhat unlikely unless a specific operation was mounted) you would have to be able to convince them you were a resident (and/or a legitimate visitor to one) in order to be exempt.
RTRA 1984 Section 14 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/sectio...
RTRA 1984 Section 16 - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/sectio...
Punishment: a fine at Level 3 on the standard scale. RTOA 1988 Schedule 2
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/53/schedu...
If caught by the police (somewhat unlikely unless a specific operation was mounted) you would have to be able to convince them you were a resident (and/or a legitimate visitor to one) in order to be exempt.
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