Talk:Prohibitory traffic sign

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The pictorial reference to 'the Chinese speed limit sign' (top sign) is showing what is infact is a speed restriction sign as detailed in the UN Convention on Road Traffic, Road Signs and Signals. (See Wiki for this) Indeed many of the signs shown here at WIKI are from the Convention.

This includes the so called UK (and NZ) 'Open Road Sign' - contracted by GB as meaning "END OF ALL LOCAL PROHIBITIONS IMPOSED ON MOVING VEHICLES", hardly "open road limit". The convention allows very similar designs, such as with or without a border or rim, and allows for a series of parted diagonal lines such as (///) or a solid one as shown.

The answer is for GB to initiate REMOVAL of the subject sign from their road network UNLESS it accepts the UN Convention meaning as contracted, for the length of road to which it is fixed.

The world *must* have uniformity with its road signage, safety is not improved when individual a countries - authorities act - to give different meaning to an international road traffic sign, to that understood everwhere else. Jeremy Pritchard Mot Adv-NSW