Temporary signals and bollards

Article 144. Temporary signals and bollards.
1. Variable message panels aim to regulate traffic, adapting it to changing circumstances. They are used to give information to drivers, to warn of possible dangers and to give recommendations or instructions requiring compliance. The content of text and signals in variable message panels will comply with the official Catalogue of Traffic signals.
The modifications that these variable message panels introduce with respect to the normal signaling finish when either the panel changes or the causes which motivated its imposition return to normal.
2. The marking by bollards can be:
a) Barrier devices: they prohibit access to the part of the road that they delimit and are as follows:
i) Fixed barrier: prohibits access to the road or part of it which it delimits.
ii) Moving barrier or semi-barrier: Temporarily prohibits access, while it is in the horizontal position to the road at a level crossing, customs or toll position, or access to a site or other place.
iii) Provisional directional panel: prohibits access and indicates the direction of travel.
iv) Flags, cones or analogous devices: prohibit access through the real or imaginary line that joins them.
v) Steady red light: indicates the road is totally closed to traffic.
vi) Steady or flashing yellow lights: prohibit access through the imaginary line that joins them.
b) Guiding devices: Their purpose is to indicate the edge of the road, the presence of a bend, traffic direction, road work limits or other obstacles. They are as follows:
i) Separation marker: A semicylindrical bollard with symmetrically opposed triangles on its front, of reflective material, that indicates the point at which two lanes of traffic separate.
ii) Edge markers: A bollard whose fundamental purpose is to mark out the highway’s edges at night or in low visibility.
iii) Permanent directional panels: A panel intended as a directional guide and to indicate to users an imminent danger.
iv) Road studs or cat’s eyes: A reflective stud placed in the road surface to delimit lanes or mark the road edge at night or in poor visibility.
v) Reflective barriers: A reflective surface placed on barriers to mark their presence at night or in poor visibility.
vi) Flat bollards: Indicate the edge of the road, factory or works limits or other obstacles in the road.
vii) Cylindrical bollards: They reinforce any safety measure, prohibiting crossing of the imaginary line that joins them.
viii) Lateral barriers: Rigid, semi-rigid or moveable; they indicate the edge of the road and protect against leaving the road.
3. The form, color, design, symbols, meaning and dimensions of bollards will conform to that set down in the official Catalogue of Traffic signals.