The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Second City Crossing) Order 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order authorises Transport for Greater Manchester (referred to in this Order as the undertaker) to construct and operate a transit system in the city of Manchester, being an extension to the existing Manchester Metrolink system by way of a new route joining existing tramway routes from a point close to the Manchester Central Convention Complex on Lower Mosley Street to a point near Victoria Station on Corporation Street. For that purpose, the Order also authorises the compulsory purchase and temporary use of land, the diversion of existing rights of way, street works and ancillary works.

The Order also contains a number of ancillary and consequential provisions to provide for the construction, maintenance and operation of the transit system.

A copy of the works and land plans, the book of reference and the traffic regulation plans mentioned in this Order and certified in accordance with article 47 (certification of plans, etc.) of this Order, may be inspected free of charge during working hours at the offices of the undertaker at—

Transport for Greater Manchester, 2 Piccadilly Place, Manchester M1 3BG; and

City Planning Department reception, Manchester City Council, Level 7, Town Hall Extension, Lloyd Street Entrance, Manchester M60 2JT.