ABSTRACT
In the past, there was a fairly clear line between the responsibilities for providing and maintaining the highways network, in all its complexity, and for ensuring that the users of that network complied with the rules and regulations that controlled the way that they behaved. The traffic engineer, working for the appropriate highways authority, would determine what rules and constraints would be put in place and it then became the responsibility of the local police authority to detect and penalise the traveller who breached the rules that were put in place. Thus the traffic engineer would determine measures such as:
• speed limits; • parking, waiting and loading restrictions; • banned turns and movements; • weight, height and width limits; • traffic priorities, such as stop and give-way lines;
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• priorities, such as bus lanes and bus-only movements.
