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T.P.D.M.V.2.6
(Al/2002)
6.7.2 Facilities
6.7.2.1 The facilities provide at each service area may include:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
parking for cars and heavy goods vehicles;
toilets;
fast food facility;
petrol filling station; and
vehicle recovery service.
6,2.2 The petrol filling station, which is essential to all service areas, should be the last facility
before traffic rejoins the Expressway.
6.7.2.3 Where rear access is provided, see paragraph 6.7.1.2, the access should be for the use of
staff vehicles, supply vehicles, emergency service vehicles, breakdown lorries and
expressway maintenance vehicles only, and to ensure this the access roads should be closed
by means of lockable gates. The general public must not be permitted to use these service
roads for vehicular access. However where identical facilities cannot be provided for each
opposite service, consideration might be given to using the service road as a pedestrian link.
6.7.2.4 Part of the site should be set aside for landscape works to help screen the service area.
6.7.2.5 Service Areas should be signed at regular intervals, in advance, to allow drivers to make
rational decisions on where they wish to stop. The signface designs for Service Area
directional signs are illustrated in Diagram 6.7.2.1, but Chapter 3 of Volume 3 should also
be referred to.
6.7.2.6 On joining an Expressway where service areas are provided, drivers should be informed of
the distance in 'km' to the next service area by appropriate signing as indicated in (i) in
Diagram 6.7.2.1. The sign should be placed about 200m beyond the end of the acceleration
taper i.e. about 100 m beyond the Expressway confirmation sign, see paragraph 6.4.1.5.
The sign should be located at the rear of the hard shoulder or hardened verge.
6.7.2.7 Where junctions are closely spaced it is sufficient to have the distance informatory sign, in (i)
in Diagram 6.7.2.1, erected only at the far junction of a pair of closely spaced junctions.
As a guide in this respect the signs need not be closer to each other than 5 km.
6.7.2.8 Where a service road has its own direct access slip roads serving it from the Expressway,
signing should be in accordance with the normal junction signing as set down in Chapter 3
of Volume 3, that is, there should be an Advance Direction Sign, 1/2 km in advance of the
service area, a Final Advance Direction Sign at the start of the slip road and a Direction Sign
at the nose of the junction. However as explained in Chapter 3, Volume 3, Section 3.5.7,
directional signs should only show the direction to the service area and not forward
destinations beyond this. Also in terms of the symbols to be used it is not really necessary
to include the parking symbol 'P f if the refreshment symbol is used, as it can be assumed that
parking will be provided.