Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions

The TSRGD came into force on 1 March 1957. The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations and General Directions 2011 (SI 2011/3041), amongst many minor changes, provided for an optional dual-units (metric and imperial) height restriction warning triangle, changes to cycleway signage to allow estimated journey times to be flagged and the discontinuation of the use of the symbol "T" to mean tonnes on weight limit signs. The current edition of the regulations is the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (SI 2016/362), which came into force on 22 April 2016, with minor amendments in England and Wales in 2017. Earlier versions were: • '''''' (SI 1957/13) • '''''' (SI 1964/1857) • '''''' (SI 1975/1536) • '''''' (SI 1981/859) • '''''' (SI 1994/1519) • '''''' (SI 2002/3113) • '''''' (SI 2016/362) ==Traffic Signs Manual==

The Traffic Signs Manual is a companion guide to the TSRGD which provides guidance to highway engineers about how and where to use traffic signs, including the size of sign to use (which depends on the speed of vehicles passing the sign). It was first issued in 1965 in a loose-leaf binder and was continuously updated. Individual chapters were also published in book form and these became the only format from 1980 onwards. Chapters The manual is split into eight chapters, though chapter 2 is, as of 2025, still in progress. Chapter 8 (road works and temporary situations) is further divided into three parts with part 1 being the design, part 2 being the operations and part 3 providing changes used to prescribe traffic signs since the TSRGD was overhauled in 2016. • Chapter 1: Introduction (2018) • Chapter 2: Informatory signs (in progress) • Chapter 3: Regulatory signs (2019) • Chapter 4: Warning signs (2018) • Chapter 5: Road markings (2018) • Chapter 6: Traffic control (2019) • Chapter 7: Design of traffic signs (2018) • Chapter 8: Road works and temporary situations • Part 1: Design (2009) • Part 2: Operations (2009) • Part 3: Update (2020) ==See also==