A3 Tolworth -> Guildford NSL unenforcable?

[7db]

Just drove the section of the A3 from Tolworth to Guildford. It looked to me that the lights on the NSL signs weren't working on the initial signs just after Tolworth. AIUI this would make the entire section down to the 50 section unenforcable.

The are lit by the streetlights there, but I think they need their own lights as well. A check would need to be done that they are definitely not working - I went past not slowly.

[GreenV8S]

Is there a requirement that the NSL signs have to be illuminated to be valid?

[7db]

TSRGD 2002

TSR 18
Schedule 17
Item 10

(1) Where the sign is a terminal sign and is erected on a trunk or principal road within 50 metres of a street lamp lit by electricity, it shall throughout the hours of darkness -

(a) be continuously illuminated by means of internal or external lighting and may also be reflectorised; or

(b) while the street lamp is lit, be continuously illuminated by means of external lighting and shall also be reflectorised.

[streaky]

7db said:

TSRGD 2002 TSR 18 Schedule 17 Item 10 (1) Where the sign is a terminal sign and is erected on a trunk or principal road within 50 metres of a street lamp lit by electricity, it shall throughout the hours of darkness - (a) be continuously illuminated by means of internal or external lighting and may also be reflectorised; or (b) while the street lamp is lit, be continuously illuminated by means of external lighting and shall also be reflectorised.

So, if it's more than 50 metres from a street lamp it doesn't need to be illuminated? - Streaky

[7db]

There are some other situations where it needs to be illuminated - but if it is a change say from a 40 to NSL out in the countryside, away from streetlights, it does not need to be illuminated.