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I wouldn't say the signing is always very clear. In my area, for instance, we have some pretty long streets, e.g. Reighton Road E5, and the only sign at the unfiltered end is quite small and not a regular traffic sign, but one with writing on it informing of the fact that the street is filtered. (There's no up-to-date StreetView to show it.) Obviously, that's not an excuse for driving through the filter itself, but the signage is certainly inadequate for preventing driving through camera-enforced filters that are permeable for drivers.
Equally obviously, vandalising traffic signs does not change the underlying traffic order. I think highway authorities have a duty to quickly replace vandalised signs, but there may be a grey area of a short period during which traffic orders whose signs are vandalised may not be enforceable. I don't know how the law works there, though.
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Yeah, I don't know--the Traffic Signs Manual only says this:
8.1.2. Over time, signs gradually become faded and their retroreflective properties diminish. This will reduce both conspicuity and legibility by day and by night. Signs also become less effective when they are dirty, damaged or displaced as a result of vehicle impact or vandalism. Damaged or dirty signs also discredit the traffic authority and lessen road users’ respect for the signs. A periodic inspection of signs should be made to ensure their early repair and/or replacement when necessary. After-dark inspections should be made of lit and reflectorised signs, or a retroreflectometer may be used to measure the latter
I'm sure there are clearer rules somewhere, but it's not something I've ever looked into.
What is clear is that, as in the case of the Blackheath filter at South Row, if signs/planters etc. keep getting vandalised, the local authority will most likely tire of having to enforce them.
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Not sure I buy these stats--e.g., I don't really believe that the numbers have changed much between 2018 and 2021, and they're comparing completely different stats here, but whatever. Diversity is good, and it was certainly much lower 20-25 years ago than today.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/tfl-cycling-diversity-improving-london-b963612.html
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Made the error of getting sucked into reading twitter (via nitter) where there is an abundance of frothy accounts, but enjoying recent announcements by Islington (70% LNs), Fulham clean air neighbourhood, changes to St Paul’s gyratory, etc. and it’s starting to feel like an inflection point.
Aside from not feeding the trolls on twatter, what other easy things can I do? join an organisation, like LCC(?) and (3) continue to engage tfl consultations. Anything else?
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The biggest gripe I have with the LTNs is how poorly signalled at least some are. Dulwich for example.
Of course drivers will oppose LTNs if they get hit with a fine for driving through an LTN that they never saw.