LIABILITY OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR NEGLIGENCE ARISING OUT OF THE INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF WARNING SIGNS, TRAFFIC LIGHTS, AND PAVEMENT MARKINGS: SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

This supplementary material contains additional information referenced to topic headings in the original paper and new topic headings that relate to matters not discussed in the original paper. Among the previous topic headings are: Introduction; and Duty of State or Governmental Agency to Install and Maintain Highway Warnings, Traffic Lights, or Pavement Markings (sub-heading: Traffic Lights). New sub-headings under Duty of State or Governmental Agency to Install and Maintain Highway Warnings, Traffic Lights, or Pavement Markings are: Installation and Maintenance of STOP Signs; Posting of Speed Limit Signs; Signs Warning of Deer Crossing Points on Highways; Curve Warning Signs; Traffic Control Devices for the Protection of Pedestrians; and Duty to Warn of Known Dangerous Conditions as Unprotected Operational Level Activity. Sub-headings under the new topic of Common Law Negligence are: Duty to Warn of Preferential Icing on Bridges; Duty to Warn of Ice and Snow on Highways; Failure to Make Timely Repair; and Distinction Between Advisory and Mandatory Signing.

• Record URL:
  https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/SelectedStudies/Vol4/1966S1-S18.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Page range: 1966-S5 through 1966-S18.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Vance, J C
• Publication Date: 1991-11

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: 14 p.
• Serial:
  • Selected Studies in Highway Law
  • Volume: 4
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridges; Building; Deer; Defects; Facilities; Highway curves; Highway law; Highways; Ice; Icing; Installation; Liability; Local government; Maintenance; Negligence; Pedestrian safety; Repairing; Road markings; Snow; Speed limits; Speed signs; State government; Stop signs; Time; Traffic signals; Warning signs
• Uncontrolled Terms: Repairs
• Old TRIS Terms: Accumulation; Advisory speed signs; Common law; Pedestrian protection; Preferential icing; Time factor; Traffic marking
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Highways; Law; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Security and Emergencies; I10: Economics and Administration; I60: Maintenance; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00621563
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Addendum 5
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Apr 30 1992 12:00AM