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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-11/part-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/362",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016",
  "path": "schedule/11/part/4",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Road markings",
  "text": "Sign table — Schedule 11, Part 4\n(1)\nItem\n(2)\nDescription and diagram\n(3)\nPermitted or required variants in Part 5\n(4)\nRequirements applicable in Part 6\n1\nDiagram 1003.1\nVehicular traffic approaching a roundabout should give way at or immediately beyond the line to vehicular traffic circulating on the carriageway of the roundabout\n7\n2\nDiagram 1004\nVehicular traffic should not cross or straddle the line unless it is safe to do so and when the line is used to indicate a cycle lane, motor vehicles should not enter that lane unless it is clear of pedal cycles and electric scooters being used in a trial\n(Longitudinal marking)\n57\n7, 8, 10, 12\n3\nDiagram 1004.1\nVehicular traffic should not cross or straddle the line unless it is safe to do so and when the line is used to indicate a cycle lane, motor vehicles should not enter that lane unless it is clear of pedal cycles and electric scooters being used in a trial\n(Longitudinal marking)\n7, 8, 10, 12\n4\nDiagram 1005\nDivision of carriageway into traffic lanes on part of the carriageway where vehicles normally proceed in the same direction other than at places where the marking at item 2 of this table is used\n(Longitudinal marking)\n7, 8, 10, 12\n5\nDiagram 1005.1\nAs the marking at item 4 other than at places where the marking at item 3 is used\n(Longitudinal marking)\n7, 8, 10, 12\n6\nDiagram 1008\nDivision between opposing flows of traffic on a carriageway other than at places where the marking at item 2 is used\n(Longitudinal marking)\n57\n7, 8, 10, 12\n7\nDiagram 1008.1\nDivision between opposing flows of traffic on a carriageway other than at places where the marking at item 3 is used\n(Longitudinal marking)\n7, 8, 10, 12\n8\nDiagram 1009A\nEdge of the carriageway at a road junction, exit from a private drive onto a public road, or the start of a cycle lane\n(Longitudinal marking)\n7\n9\nDiagram 1009B\nEdge of the carriageway at a junction of a cycle track , or a way that would be a cycle track but for it being accessible, under a temporary statutory provision, by electric scooters being used in a trial, and another road\n(Longitudinal marking)\n10\nDiagram 1010\n(a) edge of the carriageway at a road junction or a lay-by, or at an exit from a private drive onto a public road;\n(b) the start of a traffic lane, the boundary of which is indicated by the road marking shown at item 11 of the table in Part 6 of Schedule 9;\n(c) when used in conjunction with the road marking at item 4 of the sign table in Part 4 of Schedule 2, the most suitable path to be taken by high vehicles under a low bridge or to avoid an overhanging structure;\n(d) when laid alongside rails used by tramcars, the edge of the part of the carriageway used by the tramcars;\n(e) the division between the main carriageway and a traffic lane which leaves the main carriageway at a junction ahead;\n(f) the boundary between the main carriageway and either a diverging or merging traffic lane at a road junction;\n(g) the boundary between an emergency refuge area and either an actively managed hard shoulder or the edge of carriageway of a motorway; or\n(h) the division between the main carriageway and a cycle lane through a junction\n(Longitudinal marking)\n41\n7, 8, 11, 12\n11\nDiagram 1012.1\n(a) edge of the carriageway available for through traffic other than at a road junction, an exit from a private drive onto a public road, lay-by or emergency refuge area;\n(b) the back edge of a hard shoulder;\n(c) the edge of a footway where it passes over a railway or tramway level crossing; or\n(d) the boundary between the carriageway of a motorway and an actively managed hard shoulder\n(Longitudinal marking)\n7, 9, 11, 12\n12\nDiagram 1012.2\n(a) edge of carriageway of a motorway other than at an emergency refuge area or a junction with a slip road; or\n(b) the back edge of an actively managed hard shoulder;\nand, in both cases, incorporating an audible and tactile warning\n(Longitudinal marking)\n42\n3, 7, 9, 11, 12\n13\nDiagram 1012.3\nEdge of carriageway of a road that is not a motorway and which has hard strips or hard shoulders, other than at a junction with a slip road, and incorporating an audible and tactile warning\n(Longitudinal marking)\n43\n3, 7, 9, 11, 12\n14\nDiagram 1014\n(a) Direction in which vehicular traffic should pass a road marking shown at item 7, 11 or 23 of the sign table in Part 6 of Schedule 9 or at item 23, 24 or 25 of the sign table in Part 4 of this Schedule;\n(b) obstruction on the carriageway ahead;\n(c) reduction in the number to traffic lanes in the carriageway ahead; or\n(d) path to be taken by vehicular traffic to avoid a route available for tramcars only\n(Longitudinal marking)\n(Alternative types)\n7\n15\nDiagram 1024\nVehicular traffic should proceed with caution because of potential danger ahead\n7\n16\nDiagram 1026\nPart of the carriageway which should be kept clear of stationary vehicles\n(Alternative types)\n17\nDiagram 1026.1\nPart of the carriageway outside a vehicular entrance to adjacent premises or a private drive, or where the kerb is dropped to provide a convenient crossing place for pedestrians, which should be kept clear of waiting vehicles\n18\nDiagram 1029\nDirection in which pedestrians should look for approaching traffic\n44\n19\nDiagram 1035\nAppropriate traffic lanes for different destinations\n(Alternative types)\n45\n20\nDiagram 1038\nAppropriate traffic lanes for different manoeuvres\n(Longitudinal marking)\n(Alternative types)\n21\nDiagram 1038.1\nAppropriate direction to be taken by traffic turning within a junction\n(Alternative types)\n46\n22\nDiagram 1039\nPlace where traffic streams divide or bifurcate\n(Longitudinal marking)\n(Alternative types)\n7\n23\nDiagram 1040\nPart of the carriageway which vehicular traffic should not enter unless it is seen by the driver to be safe to do so\n(Alternative types)\n47\n7, 8, 10, 12\n24\nDiagram 1040.3\nReduction in the number of lanes, or area not available to traffic, on the main carriageway or slip road of a motorway or all-purpose dual carriageway road\n48\n7, 8, 11, 12\n25\nDiagram 1040.4\nPart of the carriageway adjacent to the edge which vehicular traffic should not enter unless it is seen by the driver to be safe to do so\n49\n7, 8, 11, 12\n26\nDiagram 1040.5\nEnd of a hard shoulder\n50\n7, 8, 11, 12\n27\nDiagram 1041\nPart of the carriageway where vehicular traffic passes in the same direction on both sides of the marking, and should not enter the area covered by the marking unless it is seen by the driver to be safe to do so\n(Alternative types)\n51\n7, 8, 11, 12\n28\nDiagram 1057\nCycle lane, track , route, or a way that would be a cycle track but for it being accessible, under a temporary statutory provision, by electric scooters being used in a trial\n(Alternative types)\n29\nDiagram 1057.1\nNumber of a cycle route\n(Alternative types)\n29\n30\nDiagram 1058\nEnd of a cycle lane, track , route, or a way that would be a cycle track but for it being accessible, under a temporary statutory provision, by electric scooters being used in a trial\n31\nDiagram 1058.1\nPedal cycles and electric scooters being used in a trial should proceed with caution because of potential danger ahead\n32\nDiagram 1059\nDirections in which pedal cycles and electric scooters being used in a trial should travel along a cycle lane, track , route, or a way that would be a cycle track but for it being accessible, under a temporary statutory provision, by electric scooters being used in a trial\n(Alternative types)\n33\nDiagram 1062\nRoad hump\n7\n34\nDiagram 1064\nMarking used in conjunction with the sign shown at item 50 of the sign table in Part 2\n7\n35\nDiagram 1067\nTransverse yellow bar markings for use only on approaches to roundabouts on motorways and dual carriageway roads subject to the national speed limit, either on the main carriageway or on an exit slip road\n52\n14, 15\n36\nDiagram 1066\nEdge of part of the road used by tramcars\n(Longitudinal marking)",
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  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11 Pt. 4 heading substituted (S.) (28.6.2018) by The Traffic Signs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations and General Directions 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/161), regs. 1(2), 11(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11 Pt. 4 heading substituted (E.W.) (13.12.2017) by The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations and General Directions 2017 (S.I. 2017/1086), regs. 1(2), 11(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11 Pt. 4 Table inserted (E.) (4.7.2020) by The Electric Scooter Trials and Traffic Signs (Coronavirus) Regulations and General Directions 2020 (S.I. 2020/663), regs. 1(2), 5(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11 Pt. 4 Table inserted (E.) (19.2.2021) by The Traffic Signs (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/75), regs. 1(1), 2(12)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 11 Pt. 4 Table substituted (E.) (19.2.2021) by The Traffic Signs (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/75), regs. 1(1), 2(12)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 11 Pt. 4 in force at 22.4.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
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