Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 05 December 2011 16:04:23 Anton Aylward wrote:
Red Circle as warning: white bar on red or red bar on white No entry (entry barred)
This is what it looks like in Sweden.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_2_2.svg
It means motor traffic prohibited, and you see it if you try to drive onto a motorway in the wrong direction, for example (I don't think it means 'no entry' in general, because when you see it in a city if you try to go the wrong way down a one-way street, it's typically still allowed to do so by bicycle or walking, the only prohibition I think is for motorized vehicles - motorways excepted naturally)
I guess there's a difference between Sweden and the UK then (apart from the colour of the bar) because in the UK it does mean no entry to any vehicle, including cycles. There's also an implication that there can be oncoming traffic. It doesn't mean 'traffic prohibited' (i.e. there's no traffic at all on the road) that's just a white circle with a red border. If cycle contraflow is permitted, there must be a specific sign allowing it. Walking is always allowed on a highway, except on motorways; that's a fundamental right. Anton Aylward wrote:
A sign may show a bicycle. The red circle and bar - negative - means "no bicycles". The Blue circle - positive - means "this is a bicycle path". One says "don't" the other says "do".
Pedantic point - there's no bar to mean negative. See the pedal cycle prohibition in http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@mot... The list of everything is at http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Knowyourtrafficsigns/index.ht...
In many ways this is like *NIX. A few basic principles applied over and over.
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