Editing Stop sign (section)

====United Kingdom====
In the United Kingdom, stop signs may only be placed at junctions with tramways or sites with severely restricted visibility.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/782724/traffic-signs-manual-chapter-03.pdf|title=Traffic Signs Manual|publisher=TSO|year=2019|isbn=978-0-11-553223-8|location=London|pages=18|chapter=Chapter 3: Regulatory Signs|access-date=27 April 2020}}</ref> Until 2016, each stop sign had to be individually approved by the [[Secretary of State for Transport]].<ref>UK [[Department of Transport]]. [https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/223943/traffic-signs-manual-chapter-03.pdf ''Traffic Signs Manual'', Chapter 3: Regulatory Signs, Section 3.2, 9 September 2008]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3113/schedule/19/part/IIn2/paragraph/6/made/data.htm|title=The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002|website=www.legislation.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref> This requirement was removed by the 2016 amendments to the [[Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions]];<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/523916/DfT-circular-01-2016.pdf|title=DfT Circular: The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016|year=2016|pages=76|chapter=Annex A|access-date=27 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/schedule/19/part/2/made/data.htm|title=The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016|website=www.legislation.gov.uk|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref> the responsibility for approving stop signs now lies with local authorities.

Section 79 of the [[Highways Act 1980]] enables the government to improve visibility at junctions, as by removing or shortening walls or hedges. The Department for Transport considers improving visibility to be preferable to installing a stop sign.<ref name=":0" /> The former UK practice of using "Halt" or "Slow" at Major Road Ahead signs was discontinued in 1965 at the recommendation of the [[Worboys Committee]].<ref>Great Britain. ''Report of the Traffic Signs Committee'' [Chairman, Sir Walter Worboys], 18 April 1963.</ref> Instead of replacing all the old {{Smallcaps|halt}} signs with the new Vienna Convention {{Smallcaps|stop}} sign, the {{Smallcaps|give way}} sign became the standard one at UK priority junctions.<ref>"New traffic signs demonstrated on road at Birmingham." The Surveyor and Municipal Engineer, vol 122, p880, 1963.</ref>