Report defective traffic signs or traffic lights

Have you noticed a defective or damaged traffic sign on the road? Then you can report it.

Traffic on public roads is regulated by traffic signs and traffic facilities for reasons of safety and order, climate and environmental protection, health and urban development.

Traffic signs include, for example

• traffic signs
• road markings
• traffic lights

Traffic facilities are, for example

• red and white striped barriers
• Barrier posts and railings
• Parking ticket machines

Defective or improperly installed traffic signs or traffic lights can be a danger on the road. If you notice a fault or damage, you can report it to the Road Construction Administration.

This may concern, for example

• Traffic lights
  • failure
  • faulty timing
  • Individual lights defective
  • Call button defective
  • Signal tone for blind and visually impaired people defective
  • Traffic light pole twisted or crooked
• Traffic signs
  • Traffic sign destroyed, dirty or covered with stickers
  • Traffic sign with anti-constitutional symbols
  • Traffic sign faded
  • Pole twisted or crooked
  • Traffic sign overgrown
• Defective crosswalk lighting

Describe the damage and give an exact location. Ideally, you should document the damage with a photo. You must make sure that you own the rights to the photo and that no persons or license plates are recognizable.

Road authorities

Road construction authority

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Report to the road construction authority for inspection.

There is no deadline.

Inspection and repair of damage on a case-by-case basis.

There are no indications or special features.

The road construction authority is obliged to procure, install, maintain and remove traffic signs and traffic facilities and to operate them, including their lighting, otherwise the owner of the road is obliged to do so. In this respect, reports of defective or damaged traffic signs or traffic lights must be submitted to the relevant road construction authority. Reports to the road traffic authority are forwarded from there to the road construction authority.

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.