Pedestrian signs inform and warn pedestrians of traffic rules and restrictions, and remind drivers to show consideration. Installing appropriate signals can ensure pedestrian safety. Innovative signage includes overhead signals, cones, and illuminated signs with flashing beacons. Pedestrian zones have entry signs indicating vehicle restrictions and waiting restrictions.
Pedestrian signs are signs that are posted in areas frequented by pedestrians to inform or warn them of traffic rules and restrictions that are in effect in that area. These signs also remind drivers that they are driving in a pedestrian area and should show consideration for pedestrian traffic. All good urban planning and development systems provide for easy pedestrian mobility through footpaths, pedestrian overpasses and pedestrian accesses. Installing appropriate pedestrian signals and signs in these locations can help ensure pedestrian safety.
Busy street locations without adequate or inadequate pedestrian markings can be places with a high risk of accidents between vehicles and pedestrians. Most cities have road markings of various types at uncontrolled crossing points. These can include the usual zebra stripes, parallel lines, full white walkways and stairway markings. Crosswalk signs alone have proven inadequate as it can often be difficult for drivers to notice them and slow down over time. The use of pedestrian signals in addition to the vividly painted crosswalk signs makes much more of a difference. Along with classic pedestrian signals, it has been found useful to use innovative signals to attract the attention of both pedestrians and drivers.
Classic pedestrian signs include warning signs about children playing, school crossing, student crosswalk, deaf children’s area, blind area, slow down and pedestrian crossing. Innovative signage includes overhead pedestrian crossing signals, pedestrian safety cones, pedestrian-activated overhead signs, and illuminated signs with flashing beacons. Light signals are particularly visible at night and are more likely to make drivers give way to pedestrians. Flashing amber or yellow beacons accompanied by light messages on pedestrian crossings have shown excellent results.
Some areas of the city are marked as pedestrian zones. Vehicular traffic is generally restricted or prohibited in these areas. A typical pedestrian zone would be a shopping street. These zones have entry signs indicating no vehicles allowed, no vehicles allowed except for loading at certain times in a week, or cars and two-wheelers allowed with heavy vehicle restrictions except for loading at certain times in a week. These signs are often shown with a blank red circle for no vehicles and a red circle with images of vehicles inside to indicate which vehicles are permitted.
Pedestrian signals can also indicate whether vehicles are allowed to park and wait in these zones. This can be a red circle with a diagonal line and filled with blue. There may not be yellow lines or road markings in pedestrian zones, so it is important for drivers to check for waiting restriction signs. The end of the pedestrian zone will carry end of zone signs.
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