Text file: 5561.txt
author: paski
downvotes: 4
end consideration date: 2014-03-11
id: '5561'
number comments: 17
number views: 3002
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning\nThe\
  \ primary purpose of horizontal road signs (ground markings) is to regulate and\
  \ direct traffic. The design of the signage should reflect simple and unambiguous\
  \ information so that road users, over a wide global area, can understand what it\
  \ is communicating to them. The perceptibility of traffic signals is influenced\
  \ by many factors, not least the colour, which also determines the light reflectance\
  \ and thus the perceptibility of the signal.\nSlovenia has notified the 1968 Vienna\
  \ Convention on Road Traffic Signs and has thus joined the effort to standardise\
  \ the shapes and colours of traffic signals. The provisions of this convention specify\
  \ that ground markings should be yellow or white, and blue may also be used for\
  \ areas where parking is permitted or restricted. It is also stipulated that where\
  \ yellow and white are used in the territory of a signatory to the Convention, the\
  \ markings of the same class must be of the same colour.\nThe colour of road markings\
  \ and the materials of which they may be made are in accordance with the provisions\
  \ of the Vienna Convention and are laid down in the Regulation on traffic signs\
  \ and traffic equipment on public roads (Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia\
  \ No 46/2000, as amended) and the European standard SIST EN 1436. Thus, all markings\
  \ on the carriageway and other traffic areas are white, areas where parking is prohibited,\
  \ reserved lanes for public passenger transport, bus stops, physical barriers to\
  \ traffic calming are marked in yellow, and areas for short-term parking are marked\
  \ in blue.\nThe recognition of the road category and thus of the specific traffic\
  \ regulation (maximum speed limit) by means of ground markings in some European\
  \ countries (e.g. the Netherlands) is based on the different structure of the longitudinal\
  \ ground markings and not on the different colours of these markings. These markings\
  \ make it easy for the road user to know the course of a particular road within\
  \ a settlement or outside a settlement.\nThe prerequisite for such arrangements,\
  \ where the road category is made visible by the ground markings and the road users\
  \ perceive the required driving rules from a small number of design elements, requires\
  \ the modernisation of the road infrastructure by implementing all safety measures\
  \ outside the settlements and ensuring that the road cross-sections are such that\
  \ such markings are possible at all.\n "
response date: 2014-03-27
response due date: null
sent date: 2014-02-10
title: Speed limit
upvotes: 25
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/5561
