Which signs do not apply to public vehicles?

Explanation

Only the fourth sign.

The first three signs concern stopping and parking: sign 1 no parking, sign 2 no parking on odd days of the month, and sign 3 no stopping. These prohibitions cover public service vehicles too; their only concession is that they may stop at designated and marked stops to pick up and set down passengers. Outside those stops, a bus is subject to the prohibition like any other vehicle.

Sign 4 belongs to a different family: a white circle with a red border and the image of a car, that is a prohibition on the movement of motor vehicles. Movement prohibitions do not cover public service vehicles. The logic is clear; the purpose of such a sign is to take general car traffic out of a street — a narrow street, a residential area, an old quarter — not to cut a bus route on which the people of that very district depend. The drivers of public service vehicles are also professionals travelling on a fixed and familiar route.

The distinction to keep in mind: a movement prohibition has nothing to do with public service vehicles, but a stopping and parking prohibition does; because the reason for a no-stopping sign is the danger of that particular spot — blocking the view, narrowing the carriageway, proximity to a junction — and a bus stopped there creates exactly the same danger as a car.

• "None" assumes public service vehicles have no exception at all, whereas the fourth sign is precisely their exception. • Sign 1 is no parking and, contrary to this option, is one of the very items that does bind public service vehicles.

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