On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I am not sure why it was suddenly changed (today) from unsuitable to > discouraged, but "Unsuitable for HGVs" is seen frequently in the UK. To my > understanding there is a difference between the semantics of unsuitable and > discouraged, the former being a simple statement of (official) opinion and > the latter indicating that active measures have been taken to decrease its > occurrence. In any case it might not be legally enforceable, but if you are > shown to have ignored the official warning it may affect your position if > it came to an incident (insurance claim). > Not sure either. I know there's similar signs in the US (in Oregon, 'Travel at your own risk, emergency and rescue services not available next xx miles' and '4 wheel drive with low range strongly recommended' are two I've seen; though one that's clearly bicycle=no, foot=no is 'Bicycles and pedestrians prohibited; no water or shelter next xx miles, YOU WILL DIE' is a common sighting on side roads from major highways in the Oregon outback, where motorized travel is somewhere between tedious and difficult in general and travel by bicycle or foot is somewhere between extremely difficult to deadly on the main roads, and just totally not doable on the sides.
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