Kitty Vernon

Traffic Management Division

 Controlled Parking
Zones - why review?
 Controlled Parking
Zones - why review?

What are the issues?

The main issues are:
The main issues are:

• how to sign parking controls on-street

The main issues are:

• how to sign parking controls on-street

• how to ensure that the provisions in

TSRGD and TSM are appropriate for
traffic authorities to provide the
appropriate signing on-street
Parking controls are:
Parking controls are:

• a Good Thing!
Parking controls are:

• a Good Thing!

• a necessary evil?
Parking controls are:

• spreading
Parking controls are:

• spreading

• here to stay
Parking controls are:

• more varied than before

Parking controls are:

• more varied than before

• more difficult to comprehend

Parking controls are:

• more varied than before

• more difficult to comprehend

• more rigorously enforced

What are the implications for
CPZ signing:
What are the implications for
CPZ signing:

• for drivers?
What are the implications for
CPZ signing:

• for drivers?

• for local residents?

For drivers:
Zone entry signs:
The basic premise of a CPZ has
always been that the use of entry
signs displaying the periods of
control obviates the need for time
plates with yellow lines within the
zone.
Zone entry signs:
For drivers who are unfamiliar with
the area, and concentrating on other
aspects of the driving task, it can no
longer be assumed that entry signs
alone are adequate to provide
information about the zonal yellow
line restriction.
Zone entry signs:
• are not sufficiently conspicuous
Zone entry signs:
• are not sufficiently conspicuous

• are often obscured by other street

features or vegetation
Zone entry signs:
• are not sufficiently conspicuous

• are often obscured by other street

features or vegetation

• contain more information than

drivers can assimilate and remember
Zone entry signs:
Zones are often too big for drivers to
remember what the restrictions were
by the time they reach their intended
destination, or even where the last
sign was.
Zone entry signs:
Some authorities give the same zone
name to adjoining zones with
different yellow line restrictions,
because the same permits are valid
in each.
Even though CPZs have been around
for 40 years, drivers don’t really
know what they are - unless they
themselves live in one, or have been
issued with a PCN or fixed penalty
ticket for contravening a zonal
yellow line restriction.
It seems unlikely that strangers
visiting a CPZ would understand
that zone entry signs show the times
of yellow line operation, or be able to
assimilate and remember the
periods of control.
Since TSRGD 1994 introduced a
revised yellow line system, single
yellow lines mean any restriction
short of a 24/7 prohibition of waiting
for at least 4 consecutive months.
Drivers entering a CPZ only have
entry signs to tell them what a single
yellow line means. If they miss the
entry sign they don’t even know
where to look for information about
the restrictions, let alone what the
restrictions are...
Some zones around football grounds
etc now have additional restrictions
on match/ event days. The events
occur irregularly and event days
have to be indicated on additional
signs.
The times shown on signs indicating
a prohibition of waiting overnight by
HGVs (diagram 640.2A) do not
indicate the times of operation of
adjacent yellow lines.
Implications for local
residents: .
The statutory definition of a CPZ
means that controls - waiting
restrictions and permitted parking -
have to be marked out in every
street.
'controlled parking zone' means an
area in which, except where parking
places have been provided, every
road has been marked with one or
more of the road markings shown in
diagrams 1017, 1018.1, 1019 and
1020.1;
and into which each entrance for
vehicular traffic has been indicated
by a sign shown in diagram 663 or
663.1.
There may not be room to mark out
bays in narrow streets and culs-de-
sac.
Even in wider streets, the provision of
signs and lines may result in
unacceptable clutter where there are
many driveways interrupting parking
spaces. The treatment of dropped
kerbs - to mark with a yellow line or not
- is an issue.
How and whether to sign parking
controls where a Home Zone is
surrounded by a CPZ is a
particularly difficult issue.
And, in London, how to sign side
roads where a CPZ has been
severed by a red route.
The main issues are:

• how to sign parking controls on-street

• how to ensure that the provisions in

TSRGD and TSM are appropriate for
traffic authorities to provide the
appropriate signing on-street
How to sign parking controls
on-street:
• drivers looking for somewhere to park
need to be able to consult signs near
where they want to park
How to modify TSRGD:

• the current statutory definition of a CPZ

is outmoded, and too inflexible