MARKINGS FOR LOADING BANS
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PIA NEW system of yellow kerb marks to indicate where the loading and unloading of vehicles is prohibited, either continuously or at certain times of the day, will start to appear on the roads of Great Britain within the next few weeks.
At present the prohibition of loading and unloading is indicated in many places by a yellow line near the edge of the carriageway. New regulations made jointly by the Minister of Transport and the Secretary of State for Scotland give highway authorities until March 7 to lay the new kerb marks alongside existing yellow lines. Until that date the new kerb marks will simply repeat the message given by the yellow lines.
After March 7 the marks on the kerb will indicate the prohibition of loading and unloading. The yellow line will then be used to indicate ordinary' waiting restrictions.
The times during which these prohibitions apply will be shown on plates erected alongside (normally on lamp posts), except in controlled parking zones, where there will be no plates for prohibitions applying for the hours shown on the zone entry signs. The kerb marks will run up the face of the kerb and extend some 10 to 12 in, across the pavement; they will be about 10 ft. apart.
This new system, where loading prohibitions are shown by yellow marks on the kerb and ordinary waiting restrictions by yellow lines on the carriageway, with plates on the lamp posts stating the hours and days of operation, will gradually supersede the present circular 'no waitingfloadinglunloading" signs on black and yellow striped poles.
The circular signs will remain valid until December 31, 1966, by which time the change-over to the new system will be completed,