HC Deb 07 July 1988 vol 136 cc680-1W
Mr. Tony Lloyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research is being conducted by his Department into improving the visibility of traffic road signs.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

Research is being undertaken by or on behalf of the Department on the conspicuity of warning signs, the obscuring of traffic signs by large vehicles on heavily trafficked roads and the conspicuity and legibility of variable message signs.