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These signs are legal, there is nothing in the regulation to say the sign has to be in English
Officialdom at it’s worst - sometimes I understand why people riot.
zaax:
Blackminster Polish and Spanish road signs 'broke rules' - BBC NewsThese signs are legal, there is nothing in the regulation to say the sign has to be in English
Officialdom at it’s worst - sometimes I understand why people riot.
Whats this got to do with Highways Agency Traffic Officers? Its the Agency itself that make the descisions?
Why do they have to put it in writing ? Surely using picture type warnings like those that you see at roadworks, or the queueing cars sign, or slippery surface sign etc. everybody understands those. No need for translations there, as pictures are the same in any language,
The amount of immigrant/foreign workers/drivers that are in England from loads of different countries, the signs would be easier to warn them of the dangers.
Nothing to do with HATO, and until Orys comes along and tells us they are written in plain Polish and Spanish, they are only information signs and have as much clout as a Lion of Longleat sign.
I suggest you change the title of the thread to “BBC Talking ■■■■■■■■ Again”
If the road sign had simply had this written on it, they may have had a point.
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What’s it got to do with the HA? That road is a B road so would be under the control of the local authority. I’m not sure but if it’s the road that runs through Badsey and Bretforton it has a weight limit on it anyway, most of the roads near the A46 around there do now.
Just to confirm the sign on BBC webside is in Polish and have very clear instruction about where the road works are and on bottom says " warning diversion" and not " please follow diversion" in a way same thing, if local council decided to put the signs up why they have been moved by HATO
malenki22:
Just to confirm the sign on BBC webside is in Polish and have very clear instruction about where the road works are and on bottom says " warning diversion" and not " please follow diversion" in a way same thing, if local council decided to put the signs up why they have been moved by HATO
They put stupid signs up in Wales and no-one can understand them 
They use a variation of the word Police in most parts of the world, except on this Island
why have a go at the BBC ?
where are they talking bollox in this report?
del949:
why have a go at the BBC ?
where are they talking bollox in this report?
because the BBC talk ■■■■■■■■ in every report, they only report what there lord and masters tell them to and we pay for it!
because the BBC talk ■■■■■■■■ in every report, they only report what there lord and masters tell them to and we pay for it!
so that means that you cannot actually say where they are talking bollox.
sounds like bollox to me 
del949:
because the BBC talk ■■■■■■■■ in every report, they only report what there lord and masters tell them to and we pay for it!
so that means that you cannot actually say where they are talking bollox.
sounds like bollox to me
What it means is that all news comes from the same place, through the news agencies. The BBC buy content from Press Association and use it for their own agenda. I imagine the reason this was posted was to attract people to talk about it, and to get people wound up about the amount of foreign language notices there are, in doctors offices, hospitals, dentists and government buildings.
Tell me I am wrong about what the man in the pub talks about when he see a story like this.
Besides the BBC reported it, not to HATO, HATO didn’t move any signs. HATO were not even there, they were parked in a motorway service area or on a bridge, miles away!
The agency said it had removed the Blackminster diversion signs on Monday
I suppose that this would be the highways agency.
I can understand that you don’t like the BBC, but I cannot see in this report any kind of “bollox”.
Surely the point of news reporting (in this instance) is to supply information to the public in order for them to discuss and decide if the authorities are doing what we pay them for.
Granted, in the wider scheme of things this story is not important but as it was published on a local news site I guess it was relevant to the area, especially if there is now traffic congestion cause by foreign drivers not understanding the English signs.
If anything, I would regard the HA’s response as pretty stupid, although it may have some legal standing regards the format of the signs.
HATO(as in Highways Agency Traffic Officer) would not have moved them, they would have been moved by the HA area contractor on instruction of the HA (That MAC {Managing Area Contractor} is responsible for upkeep of signs in their area on HA roads)
Now I read it that the signs were set on a roundabout on the A46 at the approach to the mentioned B road.
The A46 is one of the HA trunk roads, so the HA are responsible for any signage on it (in fact ANYTHING that happens on that road).
As the HA is a government department, it HAS to enforce government procedures, it can’t turn a blind eye to them, and believe me, just sticking some signs up, no matter how good the intention, or that it’s good common sense, just doesn’t comply at all with Government procedures!
The local council/network rail should have approached the HA then maybe (Don’t hold your breath!) some agreement would have been made, and agreed emergency signage could have been erected.
PS. If they’d put the signs up 200 yds down the B road, the HA wouldn’t have touched them.