Motorway signs
Appropriate traffic lanes for different manoeuvres at a junction ahead
What it means
The arrows show which lane takes you where at the junction ahead, with the lane divider drawn between them. You will meet it on the approach to a junction where the road splits. Sort out your lane while the sign is still distant, then move over once and settle there.
Highway Code Rule 266 — read it on GOV.UK
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Other motorway signs
- Additional traffic lanes joining from the right ahead. Traffic on the main carriageway has priority over joining traffic
- Closure of all lanes of a three lane carriageway ahead
- Closure of right hand lane of a two lane carriageway ahead
- Direction to a motorway at the junction shown, indicating route number
- Drivers should check their distance from the vehicle in front
- Drivers should keep a distance of two chevron markings from the vehicle in front
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