The A5036 Trunk Road (M57 Switch Island Junction Improvements) Order 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 3381

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A5036 Trunk Road (M57 Switch Island Junction Improvements) Order 2004

Made

9th December 2004

Coming into force

29th December 2004

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.—(1) This Order may be cited as the A5036 Trunk Road (M57 Switch Island Junction Improvements) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 29th December 2004.

(2) In this Order, all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.

2.  The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule3 to this Order shall become a trunk road from the date when this Order comes into force.

3.  The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan numbered HA 10/TD/014 marked “The A5036 Trunk Road (M57 Switch Island Junction Improvements) Order 2004”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the ODPM-DfT Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA.

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

(a)where the highway is maintainable at the public expense by a local highway 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, exclosure 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 new trunk road is opened for traffic.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Arthur Ashburner

Divisional Director, Highways Agency

9th December 2004

THE SCHEDULEROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is approximately 156 metres in length, from a point approximately 60 metres east of the centreline of the A59 (Ormskirk Road), to a point approximately 40 metres from the north-eastern end of the existing layby on the southbound carriageway of the A5036 at Sefton in the County of Lancashire.