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Many local roads everywhere are de facto single track. What officials may have discovered here is an effective way of discouraging people from illegal parking on the double yellows. Instead of fines, nudge drivers by making it more obvious WHY they shouldn't park there.
The eastern end of White Lion Street opposite Angel station is also signposted as a "Single Track Road" - though the section is short and therefore there are no passing places.
Many streets in London work like this, just not signposted. In Hammersmith you proceed hoping no one comes in the opposite direction, and wait in a suitable gap among the parked cars if they do.
It doesn't have the signs but Potters Lane in Barnet is narrow with passing points:
[streetview]
Until quite recently such a street would have been made one-way. What they have done probably discourages through traffic more than the alternative of providing pinch points with priority in one direction, and also uses less parking space.
One for my fellow Men Who Like Buses but I think the S2 (predecessor of the 488) came this way until surprisingly late - possibly the 90s? Anyone know for sure?

dg writes: until 1993.
My satnav took me down there a couple of years ago and I couldn't help chuckling. Memories of northern Scotland flooded back, but this road isn't quite so scenic.
Maybe you could submit some kind of freedom of information request to find out if there is a list of such roads and/or a database of where there are such traffic signs.
There's a road sign with a 'Single track road' plate on King's Lane in Sutton, where it approaches a narrow bridge over the railway between Carshalton Beeches and Sutton (street view).

A full-flegded single track road with passing place might have felt out of place in this 'most boring' of London boroughs!
This is really common in Lambeth where I grew up, take a look at this road from right near Stockwell station: [streetview]

dg writes: Shows a narrow road with parking, but not a 'single track road with passing places'.
Looking at Street View there were no sign of these refuges in 2008, but they were in place by 2014, the other interesting thing is the lack of views in this section, just October 2008 and June 2014, move further up and there are plenty of views after 2014.
There's Rectory Lane in Sidcup (LB Bexley). I had my wing mirror knocked off there when I was a teenager driving my dad's car. However it's more country lane than city street.
Don't think these roads are classified as such by local authorities. Or at least I doubt they hold a record of them. One similar in central London is Eaton Lane SW1, just off Buckingham Palace Rd. Should be one way, but very narrow two way lane with parking on one side!
So far several narrow roads, but no confirmed 'single track road with passing places'.

Maybe Cadogan Terrace is unique in London.
The contributors to OpenStreetMap do not appear to have found any others in London, but there are a few inside the M25 on Mead Lane near Chertsey: 51.3841732,-0.4787956

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/SWB
This is a travesty!
Single track with passing place(s) to me means those sunken lanes in the cornish and devonian sunshine with blind corners, ill-placed and only just big enough pull~ins occasionally signposted and, most importantly, with grass down the middle always and a tractor coming at you in the other direction often.
To put a sign up and provide tarmacked laybys like this by Vicky Park goes against the spirit of the rural right of way and is, I'm afraid, putting lipstick on a hog.
I daresay there'd be enough room to make it two-way if they only allowed parking on one side, but I don't think Tower Hamlets are quite bold enough for that.

My memory of twisty single track roads in the Highlands had a diamond-shaped sign - apparently the design was changed in the 2000s to avoid confusion with signs for tram drivers.
That does make me wonder if there are any single track roads with passing places which also have a tram line, in order to cause that confusion!
This road is well known to cyclists as you have to use it when the park is closed. Any upgrades for walkers and cyclists have been pushed aside as they say you can use the park.

(Although obviously the park is closed often!)

It’s widely hated as its poorly lit and the constant dodging in and out feels very dangerous.
A slightly different case is Chipstead Way on the 166 bus route: the timetable is carefully written for the buses to pass at one particular stop, where the stops for the two directions are opposite each other. Elsewhere, on a narrow road with parking on both sides, there isn't room.So for buses it a 'single lane with passing place' situation.
I was surprised to come across some gravel roads in London. I think the closest to central London is Putney Park Avenue.

dg writes: There are dozens. London is vast and varied.
As mentioned earlier, Rectory Lane, Bexley has a passing places signpost...
https://tinyurl.com/yceoj8b5
Thanks, that means Cadogan Terrace is not alone!










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