The A4 Trunk Road (Great West Road and Boston Park Road, Hounslow) (Prohibition of Traffic Movements) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 871

ROAD TRAFFIC

The A4 Trunk Road (Great West Road and Boston Park Road, Hounslow) (Prohibition of Traffic Movements) Order 2000

Made

15th March 2000

Coming into force

20th March 2000

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(1) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis pursuant to section 7(6) of that Act(2), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the A4 Trunk Road (Great West Road and Boston Park Road, Hounslow) (Prohibition of Traffic Movements) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 20th March 2000.

2.  In this Order:

“the trunk road” means that length of the A4 Trunk Road in the London Borough of Hounslow known as Great West Road;

“Boston Park Road” means the road of that name in the London Borough of Hounslow;

“eastern junction” means Boston Park Road’s eastern junction with the trunk road;

“eastern traffic island” means the island site adjacent to the north east bound carriageway of the trunk road which extends from the eastern junction in a north western direction into Boston Park Road for a distance of 14.1 metres; and

“central reservation” means that part of the trunk road which separates the two carriageways for the safety and guidance of vehicles using the road.

3.  Save as provided in article 4 below, no person shall cause or permit any vehicle—

(a) to enter the main carriageway of the trunk road from the south western side of the eastern traffic island and proceed in any direction other than through the gap in the central reservation and then right;

(b) to enter the main carriageway of the trunk road from the north eastern side of the eastern traffic island and proceed in any direction other than left;

(c) proceeding in the north eastern bound carriageway of the trunk road and passing the eastern junction to proceed in any direction other than straight ahead; or

(d) proceeding in the south western bound carriageway of the trunk road and passing the gap in the central reservation opposite the eastern junction to proceed in any direction other than straight ahead.

4.  Nothing in article 3 above shall apply to—

(a) any vehicle being used for Police, Fire Brigade or Ambulance purposes; or

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

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

P. Harwood

a Grade 7 Officer Highways Agency London Network and Customer Services Division

15th March 2000

(1)

1984 c. 27; section 6(1) was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), section 168 and Schedule 8, paragraph 21(2) and Schedule 9 and by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), section 120 and Schedule 22, paragraph 36(2). Section 6(3) was amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), section 8 and Schedule 5, paragraph 4(3).

(2)

Section 7(6) was amended by section 81 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40).