Better road signage needed for lorries

There has been plenty of local media attention paid to vehicle restrictions on Cleveland Bridge in Bath, where an 18t limit now exists.

I read in your paper that hauliers had been written to advising them of the restriction, but that in itself was never going to be enough.

Signage on roads to the north of Bath, warns about the weight limit but that in itself is also not enough.

HGV drivers may assume that there is still an alternative route through Bath from the London Road area, but there isn’t.

If the drivers follow instructions by not turning left towards Cleveland Bridge, they will have to go straight on along The Paragon and George Street where there is also a weight limit, and trying to turn an artic lorry from George Street to Gay Street would be very difficult or even impossible.

Better signage is required. HGVS should not leave the M4 and use the A46 into Bath unless they have deliveries to Morrisons. Beyond

that point, there is nowhere for them to go.