The A19 Trunk Road (A19/A64 Fulford Interchange Improvement) Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 1491

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A19 Trunk Road (A19/A64 Fulford Interchange Improvement) Order 1996

Made

5th June 1996

Coming into force

27th June 1996

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980(1) and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the A19 Trunk Road (A19/A64 Fulford Interchange Improvement) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 27th June 1996.

2.  In this Order—

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

(2) (i) “the main new roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(ii) “the new trunk roads” means the main new road and the slip roads;

(iii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA10 NNMD 2 marked “The A19 Trunk Road (A19/A64 Fulford Interchange Improvement) Order 1996”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Great Minster House, Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DR; and

(iv) “the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order and which connect the main new road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

(v) “the A19 Trunk Road” means the East of Snaith— Thirsk— Sunderland Trunk Road;

(vi) “the A64 Trunk Road” means the Leeds— York— Scarborough Trunk Road;

3.  The main new roads and the slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4.  The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

5.  The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads that—

(a) where the highway is maintainable at the public expense by a local authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority, and

(b) where the highway is not so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question,

until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for traffic.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

K. A. Lasbury

Director, Northern Network Management Division The Highways Agency

5th June 1996.

SCHEDULE 1 ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW ROADS

The route of the first main new road is a route about 81 metres in length from a point on the western side of the A19 Trunk Road 122 metres south of the centre line of the A64 Trunk Road overbridge at Fulford to a point on the western boundary of A19 Trunk Road 64 metres south of the centre line of that overbridge (marked A on the plan).

The route of the second main new road is a route about 107 metres in length from a point on the western boundary of the A19 Trunk Road 99 metres north of the centre line of the A64 Trunk Road overbridge at Fulford to a point on the eastern boundary of the A19 Trunk Road 73 metres north of the centre line of that overbridge (marked B on the plan).

SCHEDULE 2 ROUTES OF THE NEW SLIP ROADS

A route from a point on the exit slip road from the westbound carriageway of the A64 Trunk Road at Fulford 29 metres east of its junction with the southbound carriageway of the A19 Trunk Road to a point on the eastern side of the A19 Trunk Road 102 metres south of the centre line of the A64 Trunk Road overbridge at Fulford (marked C on the plan).

A route from a point on the first main new road 90 metres south of the centre line of the A64 Trunk Road overbridge at Fulford to a point on the entry slip road to the A64 Trunk Road 39 metres west of its junction with the northbound carriageway of the A19 Trunk Road (marked D on the plan).

A route from a point on the eastbound exit slip road from the A64 Trunck Road at Fulford 29 metres west of its junction with the northbound carriageway of the A19 Trunk Road to a point on the second main new road 106 metres north of the centre line of the overbridge of the A64 Trunk Road (marked E on the plan).

A route from a point on the second main new road 86 metres north of the centre line of the A64 Trunk Road overbridge at Fulford to a point on the eastbound entry slip road to the A64 34 metres east of its junction with the southbound carriageway of the A19 Trunk Road (marked F on the plan).

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.