Traffic signs: Suggest installation

For reasons of safety and order, climate and environmental protection, health and urban development, traffic on public roads is regulated by traffic signs (VZ) and traffic facilities (VE).

Traffic signs include, for example:

• Traffic signs
• Road markings

Traffic facilities are for example:

• Red and white striped barriers
• Barrier posts and railings
• Parking ticket machines

The local road traffic authority responsible for the area will decide where traffic signs and traffic facilities are to be erected.

If you as a citizen notice a place where you think a traffic sign should be placed, you can suggest it.

This can be, for example:

• Defusing danger spots and accident blackspots
• a new pedestrian crossing
• More clarity in traffic routing
• Protecting children from daycare centres and schools

You can submit your proposal for the installation of a new traffic sign or a new traffic facility to the relevant road traffic authority. In doing so, you explain the reasons for your proposal. The road traffic authority will then check whether it will order the traffic sign or traffic device.