The A2 Trunk Road (West of Rochester) Detrunking Order 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 853

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A2 Trunk Road (West of Rochester) Detrunking Order 1996

Made

14th March 1996

Coming into force

9th April 1996

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 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 A2 Trunk Road (West of Rochester) Detrunking Order 1996 and shall come into force on 9th April 1996.

2.  In this Order

(1) each measurement of distance is measured along the route of the relevant highway;

(2) (i) “classified road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classed as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads; and

(ii) “the trunk road” means the London-Dover Trunk Road (A2).

3.  The lengths of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be trunk roads and shall be classified as classified roads from the date on which this Order comes into force.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

E Al-Uzaizi

Assistant Director, Southern Network, Management Division, Highways Agency,

Department of Transport

14th March 1996

THE SCHEDULE LENGTHS OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE TRUNK ROADS

The lengths of the trunk road ceasing to be trunk roads are shown by broad black dashes on the plan numbered SNPR 95/31, marked “The A2 Trunk Road (West of Rochester) Detrunking 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 are—

1.  the eastbound carriageway of the trunk road from its bifurcation from the Medway Towns Bypass Motorway (M2) eastwards to a point 50 metres east of the point where it joins the westbound carriageway of the trunk road, a distance of 480 metres, and

2.  the westbound carriageway of the trunk road from a point 50 metres east of its bifurcation from the eastbound carriageway of the trunk road, westwards for a distance of 600 metres.

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.