Colin
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Traffic control by portable traffic signals
You can use portable traffic signals at most sites up to 300 metres long. Type Approved equipment must be used and should always be vehicle actuated except where otherwise instructed in writing by the highway authority. [Your supervisor must tell the highway authority when portable traffic signals are to be used. Approval in writing will be needed when the shuttle section includes a road junction.]
here
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/network/lo...s?page=18#a1022
At some point it may be worth asking for, the fleet No of and type approval for the lights set up, and the written approval of the HA to use timed settings.
I'll keep looking for a primary legal source to find out if it's law, so far I've got a "code of practise, to enable compliance with the law"
I've done the training course for setting up temporary lights and that's where I was told "no timer when unattended".
quote:
D1.3 LEGAL STATUS
D1.3.1 The Traffic Signs Manual is applicable in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This
Chapter sets out a code of practice to enable the legal requirements to be met in a wide variety of
circumstances, although it has no statutory force, except in Northern Ireland where an authorised officer for
the Department may deem it to have such force. (In Northern Ireland, Article 31 (or equivalent) is the legal
status that deems Chapter 8 to be a legal document for certain roads only and only for the signs and devices
used.) All authorities, bodies and organisations responsible for all types of roads to which the public have
access, are strongly recommended to make compliance with the requirements of Chapter 8 a condition of
contract in the case of works carried out on their behalf. These roads include toll roads, tunnels and bridges,
industrial parks, retail parks, leisure parks, academic, hospital, dock, railway, ministry of defence, heritage,
park, and similar estate roads etc.
from here
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/tss/tsmanual/chapter8/
still looking...........
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