Touring last year on the D420 in France we followed the signs & suddenly found ourselves on a very narrow road ( in fact so narrow had to turn caravan towing mirrors in & inch our way over a bridge) we then noticed on the next sign post that it was the D420t & the T was very small! I assume it means something on the lines of rural route but perhaps someone can enlighten me please, not much fun when the outfits almost 45' long & the buildings overhanging the road meant removing the arial of the van to clear with much amusement to the locals who spoke no English
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France given a capital and its not Paris ! - spelling corrected as a favour ! - PU
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Sorry, PU but you missed "arial" - aerial might be better!
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"Touring last year
the outfits almost 45' long"
Touring? I call that moving house!
Don't know what the T stands for (terroire?) but I would have thought that a classification of D 420 would have been fair warning that it was a pretty minor road - and didn't the map show it as minor? Any warning signs that not suitable for large vehicles?
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Phil
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Hi Phil, no the d420 was a good road & no problem till we came to a fork & I saw 420 signposted both ways & chose 1 not realising the one I took had this tiny t after the road no .The road didn't start of that narrow & no prior warning iether about how narrow or weight restrictions for bridges iether.
Ex HGV & PSV to used to looking out for those restrictions
Thanks .Regards Doc
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Was it simply a No Through Road type of T ?
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No it was just a tiny t after the D420t. the D420 was & had been a good road till it split & I managed to get through the village & out the otherside where I did meet an English car who stopped & asked me if I had just come through the village & over the bridge & when I said yes he said B..... H.... but we carried on OK & eventually rejoined the D420.
I love the rural routes you see so much more. This was on the way to the Dordoigne
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Doc,
Can you find an explanation on this site?
Seems to be the "bible" of French road numbering but I can't find anything about "t" suffix
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Phil
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Thank you phil, phew quite some site! I think our system is easier to understand, I wonder how many of the locals understand it all. Thanks once again, If I find full explanation I will post it.
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I think our system is easier to understand
Yes M, A, B, C, (yes there are 1 or 2 'C' roads) and unclassified seem ideal.
Although it all gets a bit skewey when we create things like A1(M) and two seperate A14's
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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I'll have a guess - might stand for Tourism, as in "Voitures de Tourisme" - passenger cars to you and me.
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No indication in the highway code (Code Rousseau). All I can guess for the moment is a) trottoir, pavement, i.e. no provision for pedestrians or b)troupeaux, herds, i.e. no herding of animals.
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I suppose there was no number just before it? 2t, for example, would mean two tonnes weight limit.
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Does the T indicate that the road will eventually lead to a Toll station?
Carse
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Probably not. Toll is péage in French.
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Special class deparmentmental road with some type of restriction ie weight , width or height.
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