[Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign

[Shaun McDonald]

On 31 Oct 2012, at 15:29, "Andy Robinson" <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shaun McDonald [mailto:shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk] wrote:
>> Sent: 31 October 2012 15:21
>> To: Matt Williams
>> Cc: Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Ambiguous restrictions sign
>> 
>> 
>> On 31 Oct 2012, at 14:49, Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 31 October 2012 14:37, David Fisher <djfisher81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> The pedestrianised main shopping street in Croydon has a sign with
>>>> the following wording: "Pedestrian Zone.  No vehicles except cycles
>>>> and for loading 6pm-10am."
>>>> How would you interpret that?  I see at least 3 possibilities:
>>>> 
>>>> (a) Cycles permitted at any time; loading only permitted 6pm-10am
>>>> (this is what I guess is the correct one)
>>>> (b) Cycles and loading only permitted 6pm-10am (this would also make
>>>> sense; i.e. cycling only outside shopping hours)
>>>> (c) Restrictions apply 6pm-10am (clearly ludicrous!)
>>>> (d) Something else?
>>>> 
>>>> I'm guessing it's meant to be (a), but just thought I'd canvas
>>>> opinion before tagging.
>>> 
>>> I think I agree with (a). I would find it a little strange to disallow
>>> cycling just during the day (why not just ban it entirely?).
>> 
>> The centre pedestrianised bit of Ipswich has cycling banned from 10:30am -
>> 4:30pm. It does get pretty busy during that time.
>> http://goo.gl/maps/ouha1
>> 
> 
> I'm not sure that's correct? Is it not just banning cyclists from cycling
> against the traffic flow during this period? The sign at the other end
> suggests its open to cyclists at all times in the direction of normal flow.
> http://goo.gl/eYcsG

That's a different road which is two way cycling all the time. The example I gave is for a pedestrian street, that effectively becomes a service road overnight and early morning when it's full of delivery vans for the shops.

Shaun