
Get in lane motorway arrows
This sign means: Downward pointing arrows mean ‘Get in lane’ The left-hand lane leads to a different destination from the other lanes. It is a direction sign on a motorway, where signs have blue backgrounds. It gives route information, not an order.
Official Highway Code caption: “Downward pointing arrows mean ‘Get in lane’ The left-hand lane leads to a different destination from the other lanes.”
Listed under “Signs on motorways – blue backgrounds” in The Highway Code: traffic signs (GOV.UK). For every sign in more detail, see the Department for Transport’s Know your traffic signs.
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