The A406 Trunk Road (North Circular Road, Ealing) Red Route (Prescribed Routes and Turns) Traffic Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2003

ROAD TRAFFIC

The A406 Trunk Road (North Circular Road, Ealing) Red Route (Prescribed Routes and Turns) Traffic Order 1997

Made

18th August 1997

Coming into force

29th August 1997

The Traffic Director for London, in accordance with a direction given to him by the Secretary of State under section 58(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991(1) and in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 6 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(2), and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Order:—

Commencement and citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the A406 Trunk Road (North Circular Road, Ealing) Red Route (Prescribed Routes and Turns) Traffic Order 1997, and shall come into force on 29th August 1997.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

(a) causing includes permitting;

(b) “Uxbridge Road” means the length of the A4020 in the London Borough of Ealing between The Mall and High Street;

(c) “traffic island 1” and “traffic island 2” mean respectively the northern and southern traffic island sites situated in the eastbound carriageway of Uxbridge Road adjacent to and immediately west of the junction of Uxbridge Road and the northbound carriageway of the A406 Hanger Lane; and

(d) “traffic island 3” and “traffic island 4” mean respectively the northern and southern traffic island sites situated in the westbound carriageway of Uxbridge Road adjacent to and immediately east of the junction of Uxbridge Road and the southbound carriageway of the A406 Gunnersbury Avenue.

(e) a reference to an article or a schedule followed by a number is a reference to the article of, or the schedule to, this Order so numbered;

Prescribed Routes and Turns

3.  Subject to the provisions of article 4;

(a) no person causing a vehicle to proceed eastwards in Uxbridge Road on the north of traffic island 1 shall cause that vehicle to turn right into Gunnersbury Avenue or left into Hanger Lane;

(b) no person causing a vehicle to proceed eastwards in Uxbridge Road between traffic islands 1 and 2 shall cause that vehicle to turn left into Hanger Lane or to proceed eastwards across Gunnersbury Avenue;

(c) no person causing a vehicle to proceed westwards in Uxbridge Road between traffic islands 3 and 4, shall cause that vehicle to turn left into Gunnersbury Avenue or to proceed westwards across Gunnersbury Avenue;

(d) no person causing a vehicle to proceed westwards in Uxbridge Road on the south of traffic island 4 shall cause that vehicle to turn right into Hanger Lane.

4.  The provisions of article 3 shall not apply—

(a) to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a traffic warden; or

(b) to a vehicle being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes.

Revocation or variation of existing Orders

5.  The A406 Trunk Road (North Circular Road, Ealing) Red Route (Prescribed Routes and Turns No 1) Experimental Traffic Order 1996(3) is hereby revoked.

Signed in accordance with a direction from the Secretary of State

Derek Turner

Traffic Director for London

18th August 1997

(1)

1991 c. 40.

(2)

1984 c. 27.

(3)

S.I. 1996/1089.