Illustration of the road signals in Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 1963 to 1979
The picture table of the road signals in Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 1963 to 1979 shows the signals as they are in the ordinance on road signaling of May 31, 1963 (Switzerland) and in the ordinance of August 5, 1963 to the law on road traffic ( Liechtenstein) have been established. This signaling catalog replaced the old catalog from 1932 on December 1, 1963 . This catalog was valid until the amendment to the ordinance on January 1, 1980 (see illustration of road signals from 1980 to 2016 ).
Compared to the old catalog, a lot of new signals have been incorporated into the ordinance, but not all of them are innovations, signals known from directives and circulars have also been incorporated into the ordinance.
With the exception of the motorway and road signals, most of the images from that time corresponded to today's images. The font used since 1972 is the SNV-Schiftart developed by the Association of Swiss Road Experts (now the Swiss Association of Road and Transport Experts ).
Signalization catalog, status 1963
Color according to the Liechtenstein Law Gazette , 1978 No. 22: Ordinance of 29 August 1978 on road signage (SSV) Switzerland and Liechtenstein have the same road signage with a few exceptions. Exceptions are marked as such.
1. Hazard signals
- Danger signals
105 Risk of skidding
110 Dangerous slope
128 cross wind
2. Regulatory signals
- Regulation signals
3. Warning signals
Until 1971, no separate color was defined for motorways or motorways, since then green has been explicitly defined.
Liechtenstein does not contain the panels for 301–304, 317 and 350–353 (motorways and motorways) because Liechtenstein does not have its own motorways and motorways. The location information given in these warning signals for illustration purposes comes from the Swiss Signaling Ordinance. The Liechtenstein Road Signaling Ordinance uses Liechtenstein localities for local destinations and Austrian and Swiss localities near the border for long-distance destinations.
- Warning signals
305 Bergpoststrasse
314 one-way street
315 dead end
343 Signpost « Campsite »
363 campsite
367 gas station
4. Markings
On 1963 the markings were re-listed. While many markings were already known, new colored marks and stripes were introduced. This was justified as follows:
“Color marks on the sidewalk and stripes on candelabra, etc. represent innovations that are not provided for in international agreements, but are used with success in Anglo-Saxon countries. If the solution also works for us, many signals for stationary traffic can be eliminated or saved. "
End rings could be attached to poles, posts or trees.
The innovation does not seem to have proven itself, in any case the provisions for this were removed again in the next amendment to the Road Signalization Ordinance of 1979.
- Markings
411 pedestrian crossing & 412 no-stopping line
Signals that were added or adapted in 1963
With the introduction of the ordinance on road signaling of May 31, 1963 , which was valid on December 1, 1963, the following signals were newly introduced or adapted:
Newly introduced signals
Some signals were not entirely new or unknown as of 1963; at that point in time they were incorporated into the new signaling ordinance. This particularly concerned variations of known signals. These include, for example, the prohibitions for certain vehicles such as trucks or motorcycles (205 to 207 and 210), which actually only represent variants of the signals of the prohibition for motor vehicles (203) or motorcycles (204). Signposts, certain information boards or additional boards were already known, but are now regulated in the ordinance.
The St. Andrew's cross and the spacer bars were already regulated in the ordinance on the closure and signaling of the level crossings of the railways with public roads and paths of May 7, 1929.
- Signals introduced on December 1, 1963
128 cross wind
314 one-way street
315 dead end
343 Signpost « Campsite »
363 campsite
367 gas station
Adapted signals
The appearance of the following signals has been adjusted:
- Signals adapted to December 1, 1963
305 Bergpoststrasse (new)
Subsequent changes and additions to the road signals
July 1, 1966 (AS 1966 764)
The following motorway and car road signals were introduced or repealed in Switzerland on July 1, 1966 with the Federal Council resolution on the amendment of the ordinance on road signaling of May 31, 1966 :
Canceled signal
- Signal canceled on July 1, 1966
Newly introduced signals
The newly introduced signals were only valid until 1971.
- Signals introduced on July 1, 1966
Signals 351, 354-356 were used before exits. In the case of unclear exits in left-hand bends, the exit board (351) could be replaced by the separation board (352). In the case of bifurcations, the lane board (339) and the separation board (352) should be used instead. Plate 351 may have the addition “exit” at the bottom.
January 1, 1972 (AS 1971 1876)
Since January 1, 1972 in Switzerland green signal color for highways and motorways .
Until then, Art. 31, Paragraph 1 was decisive for the signal color. There it was stipulated that all information signals must be blue (with a few exceptions regarding secondary roads or similar). In 1972 the said paragraph was supplemented with the provision that road and motorway signals (signals 301–304) are excluded from this. A new article, Art. 69 bis , has been introduced for motorway and road signals . In the new article it was determined which signals or signal elements must have a green background.
With the revision, not only was the color "green" specified, today's motorway and road signals, as they are still in use today (2017), were introduced on this date (signposts, branching boards, exit boards, etc.).
These adjustments were made within the framework of the Federal Council resolution regarding the amendment of the ordinance on road signaling of November 17, 1971 : Liechtenstein did not incorporate this amendment into its SSV due to the lack of motorways or motorways.
In 1972 a new font was introduced, the SNV-Schiftart .
Signals canceled
- Signals canceled on January 1, 1972
Newly introduced signals
- Signals introduced on January 1, 1972
Adapted signals
- Signals adapted to January 1, 1972
August 1, 1975 (AS 1975 1216)
The following amendment in the ordinance on road signaling was newly introduced by resolution of May 28, 1975 on July 1, 1975: Liechtenstein also adopted these amendments.
- Signals newly introduced on August 1, 1975
The rule that cycle lanes are delimited by a yellow, uninterrupted line already existed in the first constitution of the ordinance in 1963 (Art. 53 para. 3), but the corresponding signal 407b was only added in 1975.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ordinance on road signaling of May 31, 1963 (AS 1963 541, i.e. on page 541ff, in PDF page 9ff.)
- ^ Liechtensteinisches Landesgesetzblatt: 1963 No. 27
- ↑ Ordinance on road signaling of October 17, 1932 (AS 1947 693, i.e. from 1947, on page 693ff.)
- ↑ Ordinance on road signaling of September 5, 1979 (AS 1979 1961, i.e. on page 1961ff, in the PDF page 11ff.)
- ↑ 40. Minutes of the meeting of the Swiss Federal Council . May 29 - May 31, 1963. S. 65 ( admin.ch [PDF]).
- ^ STVG: SNV - Writings for Signals , accessed on September 14, 2017
- ↑ Ordinance of 29 August 1978 on road signaling (SSV) , page 46ff. The colors are likely to be identical in Switzerland (this can be seen from the SSV itself), but since the archive of the Swiss Official Collection only consists of b / w scans, it is based on the Liechtenstein Law Gazette.
- ↑ 40. Minutes of the meeting of the Swiss Federal Council . May 29 - May 31, 1963. S. 72 ( admin.ch [PDF]).
- ↑ a b 40. Minutes of the meeting of the Swiss Federal Council . May 29 - May 31, 1963. S. 66 ( admin.ch [PDF]).
- ↑ Ordinance on the termination and signaling of the level crossings of the railways with public roads and paths of May 7, 1929 (Adjusted Collection 1947, Volume 7, page 93ff.)
- ↑ Federal Council resolution on the amendment of the ordinance on road signaling of May 31, 1966 (AS 1966 764)
- ↑ Federal Council Decree on the Amendment of the Ordinance on Road Signs of May 31, 1966 (AS 1966 764), Art. 68
- ↑ According to the Federal Council resolution on the amendment of the ordinance on road signaling of November 17, 1971, another source mentions 1978: From concrete stands to LED signals . In: Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Ed.): Verkehrshaus-Magazin . No. 29 , July 2017, p. 8th f . ( verkehrshaus.ch [PDF; accessed on September 13, 2017]). From the concrete stand to the LED signal ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Council Decree on the Amendment of the Ordinance on Road Signs of November 17, 1971 (AS 1971 1876)
- ↑ Ordinance on road signaling, amendment of May 28, 1975 (AS 1975 1216)