S.I. No. 57/1959:

TRAFFIC SIGNS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1959.

TRAFFIC SIGNS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1959.

The Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 69 of the Local Government Act, 1946 (No. 24 of 1946) as amended by section 36 of the Local Government Act, 1955 (No. 9 of 1955), hereby makes the following Regulations :--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations, 1959.

2. The Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956 ( S.I. No. 284 of 1956 ) shall be amended by the substitution for article 9 of the following article :--

" 9. (1) Subject to sub-article (2) of this article, the traffic sign to indicate a pedestrian crossing shall consist of roadway markings formed by two parallel continuous white lines each approximately six inches wide and not less than six feet and not more than twenty feet apart extending, where there is no traffic refuge at the crossing, across the full width of the road and, where there is a traffic refuge at the crossing, from the edge of each side of the roadway to the nearer limit of the traffic refuge.

(2) The traffic signs to indicate a pedestrian crossing at which traffic is not normally controlled by traffic lights or at which traffic is not controlled for more than forty-five hours in any week by a member of the Gárda Siochána in uniform shall consist of--

(a) the roadway markings described in sub-article (1) of this article and

(b) a beacon at or near each end of the crossing and, where there is a traffic refuge at the crossing, a beacon on the traffic refuge, each beacon emitting, save as is provided in sub-article (3) hereof, at regular intervals flashes of yellow light at the rate of not more than forty-five and not less than thirty-five flashes a minute, and

(c) roadway markings consisting of alternate black and white stripes drawn parallel to the line of the roadway within the limits of the roadway markings described in sub-article (1) of this article and extending longitudinally to within approximately six inches of each of the said markings, each stripe being not less than one foot nine inches and not more than two feet three inches wide except the stripe at the edge of each side of the roadway which shall be not less than two feet and not more than four feet wide and shall be black in colour.

(3) The requirement that each beacon at a pedestrian crossing shall emit a flashing light shall not apply as respects a crossing at which for the time being not more than one of the beacons has failed so to light.

(4) In this article " beacon " means a spherical globe which is yellow in colour and approximately one foot in diameter and is mounted not less than seven feet and not more than fourteen feet above the surface of the ground in the immediate vicinity.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this seventh day of April, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-nine.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These regulations prescribe the traffic signs, including roadway markings, traffic lights and other devices, which may be provided by road authorities to indicate pedestrian crossings on roads.