EU MINISTERS APPROVE SAFETY GUIDELINES FOR TRANS-EUROPEAN ROAD ROUTES
October 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
BRITISH highways authorities could be forced to upgrade the safety design and signage on roads used for cross-border journeys by new harmonised standards recently approved in principle by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers. It has accepted an EU directive on road infrastructure safety management, which, said a council note is "aimed at ensuring that safety is integrated into all phases of planning, design and operation of the road infrastructure" across the EU's trans-European network (TEN). These are roads that are commonly ...
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