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COUNTRY LANE BAN * UK - For Lorries after SAT NAV blunders
Lorries are to be banned from Gloucestershire's country lanes in a bid to end the chaos caused by wayward satellite navigation units
Peterborough,England,UK -Motoring News/Motors Today -24 Oct 2008: -- ... Gloucestershire County Council is beginning a pilot scheme banning heavy goods vehicles from minor roads inside an area of 150 square miles... The move comes after a number of cases where lorries were diverted down routes which are too tight for trucks and then got stuck... Last year a foreign driver spent four days being fed and watered in neighbouring Somerset after his 44-tonne lorry became wedged... The no-go area bounded by the M5 takes in Stroud, Gloucester and Cirencester... Lorries which are just passing through the zone and not making deliveries will have to take designated routes and cannot blindly follow their sat nav devices...
* SURVEY: EUROPA - Roads Signs confusing
Peterborough,England,UK -Motoring News/Motors Today -24 Oct 2008: -- Most motorists find European road signs complicated, confusing and cluttered, a survey has revealed... Many foreign road signs resemble the strands of stringy Italian food that gave Britain's Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham its name, the poll of 8,000 UK and continental European motorists found... As many as 61% of those surveyed reckoned there were too many road signs with many of them having far too much information on them... One sign gave directions to no fewer than 18 destinations, while some signs were so weathered than even a no-entry sign could not be read... Yet, despite all this, 82% of those polled preferred to use signs rather than sat navs when lost... The poll was conducted by European motoring organisations including the AA, whose president Edmund King said today: "This survey shows there is a need for direction signs"...
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