Information signs

Information signs are mostly rectangular. They do not give orders or warn of hazards; they tell you what kind of road you are on, what facilities lie ahead, and how the traffic around you is organised. Blue rectangles are used on motorways and for general information, while other colours follow the same conventions as the direction signs they sit alongside.

• Entrance to controlled parking zone
• End of controlled parking zone
• Parking place for solo motorcycles
• Lane designated for high occupancy vehicles
• End of motorway
• Appropriate traffic lanes at junction ahead
• Additional traffic joining from the left ahead
• Countdown markers at a motorway exit
• Traffic has priority over oncoming vehicles
• Tourist information point
• Recommended route for pedal cycles
• Area where cameras enforce traffic regulations
• Entrance to congestion charging zone
• Advance warning of restriction or prohibition ahead
• With-flow bus lane ahead
• Vehicles permitted to use an HOV lane ahead
• Start of motorway
• Traffic on the main carriageway has priority
• Traffic in the right-hand lane of the slip road has priority
• Motorway service area
• Hospital ahead with accident and emergency facilities
• No through road for vehicles
• Home Zone entry
• Bus lane on road at junction ahead

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