The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) has published the 6th edition of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada. You can learn more about the new edition on their website. Cost of the new manual is $750 (Canadian dollars) for individuals who are not TAC members, which is a little over $600 in US currency at today’s exchange rate.
Man thanks to Scott Wainwright for alerting us to the availability of this new edition.
With the cancellation of the June meeting, there is no General Session for me to provide a report on the Executive Board meeting so I am providing the report through the News feature.
The Executive Board meet for 3 hours on June 9, 2021. The Board took the following actions during the meeting:
The Board agreed that it would meet before the January meeting to discuss general issues of importance to the NCUTCD.
All of the NCUTCD docket submissions are now posted on the docket. The docket number for each chapter is listed in the attached file along with a link to that submission on the docket. A quick look at the list shows that a few of our submissions have a docket number that is approaching 13,000, which gives you a sense of how many submissions there were to the docket. The docket is currently closed to additional submissions.
Once again, I want to thank everyone for their hard work to prepare the comments. I also want to thank the many members who I see have submitted their own personal comments to the docket.
As mentioned in my previous News post, our NPA comment process is done. The docket is now closed. The docket website no longer provides the ability to submit docket comments. I want to thank all of our members for their hard work that allowed the NCUTCD to submit all of their comments before the deadline.
Earlier today, the NCUTCD submitted the last of its docket comments on the MUTCD NPA published in December 2020. FHWA has not yet posted any of the chapters we submitted this week. The Approved Changes tab of our website has links to the PDF files we submitted. Once all of our docket comments have been posted to the docket, we will update our website and the summary sheet posted on the News tab with the docket numbers. I would like to once again thank all of our members and sponsoring organizations for their hard work and support over the last 5 months. It has been an arduous journey but we finished our work on time and we have much to be proud of in the level of detail and quality of the comments we submitted. Thank you! Gene
See attached file for the NCUTCD docket comments posted to the docket as of 9:00 am eastern this morning. Over the course of this week, the NCUTCD has submitted docket comments for all of the chapters except for 2E. 2F, 2G, and Appendix 1. Chapters that have been submitted but are not listed in the attached have not yet been posted to the docket.
The file below is the current list of NCUTCD docket submissions as of 10:00 am central time today.
The NCUTCD Council has met many times this spring in a virtual environment to approve comments on the MUTCD NPA. That work has recently culminated in the completion of several chapters of content and comments. Entire chapters are posted to the FHWA docket as they are completed. Soon after the chapter comments appear on the docket, they are posted to our website under the Approved Changes tab. As of today, we have submitted 39 chapters to the docket. The attached files includes several chapters that were posted to the docket today that have not yet been added to our website. I will try to post an updated list of submitted chapters on this page every couple of days until we are finished. Gene
I have posted below the agenda that we will use for all virtual Council sessions held between now and the June meeting to process docket comments for the MUTCD NPA. Specific content for individual sessions will be identified to Council Members and Associate Members in advance of the sessions.
Since the January meetings, the NCUTCD technical committees have been busy developing draft docket comments. As these are prepared, they are being shared with and voted upon by the NCUTCD Council. Currently, the Council is voting by email on Chapter 8E and reviewing portions of Chapter 2A prior to email voting next week. As docket comments are developed, we will post those on the FHWA docket and then on our website. To reduce the total number of NCUTCD docket comments, we may delay posting of some comments until entire chapters have been addressed by Council.