The A20 Trunk Road (Sidcup Bypass, Bexley and Bromley) (Speed Limits) Order 1988

Made: 18th January 1988

Coming into force: 24th January 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 82(2), 83(1) and 84(1) of, and Part IV of Schedule 9 to, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984[^f00001], and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Order: —

1

This Order may be cited as the A20 Trunk Road (Sidcup Bypass, Bexley and Bromley) (Speed Limits) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 24th January 1988.

2

In this Order —

• “the Bypass” means that length of the London — Dover Trunk Road (A20) in the London Boroughs of Bexley and Bromley starting at a point 700 metres east of the eastern kerbline of County Gate and extending in a general southeasterly direction to the western end of the Swanley Bypass, a distance of approximately 5.68 kilometres;

• “Frognal Corner” means the intersection of the Bypass with Perry Street (A222) and Chislehurst Road (A222);

• “Crittalls Corner” means the intersection of the Bypass with Sevenoaks Way (A224) and Cray road (A224);

• “Frognal Corner eastbound exit slip road” means that length of road which links the eastbound carriageway of the Bypass with the roundabout at Frognal Corner;

• “Frognal Corner eastbound access slip road” means that length of road which links the roundabout at Frognal Corner with the eastbound carriageway of the Bypass;

• “Crittalls Corner eastbound exit slip road” means that length of road which links the eastbound carriageway of the Bypass with the roundabout at Crittalls Corner;

• “Crittalls Corner eastbound access slip road” means that length of road which links the Old Sidcup Bypass spur road at Crittalls Corner with the eastbound carriageway of the Bypass;

• “Frognal Corner westbound exit slip road” means that length of road which links the westbound carriageway of the Bypass with the roundabout at Frognal Corner;

• “Frognal Corner westbound access slip road” means that length of road which links the roundabout at Frognal Corner with the westbound carriageway of the Bypass;

• “Crittalls Corner westbound exit slip road” means that length of road which links the westbound carriageway of the Bypass with the roundabout at Crittalls Corner;

• “Crittalls Corner westbound access slip road” means that length of road which links the roundabout at Crittalls Corner with the westbound carriageway of the Bypass.

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No person shall drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 50 miles per hour on any of the lengths of road specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.

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The lengths of road specified in Schedule 2 to this Order shall cease to be restricted roads for the purposes of section 81 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

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Paragraph 41 of the Schedule to the Trunk Roads (50 m.p.h. Speed Limit) (England) Order 1965[^f00002], as varied[^f00003], is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE 1 — 50 M.P.H. SPEED LIMIT

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That length of the Bypass which extends from a point 700 metres east of the eastern kerbline of County Gate at Sidcup to a point 274 metres east of the eastern kerbline of Sevenoaks Way (A224) at Crittalls Corner, a distance of approximately 3.03 kilometres.

2

That length of the London — Dover Trunk Road (A20) in the London Borough of Bexley which extends from a point in Old Sidcup Bypass (now known as Edgington Way) 175 metres northeast of its junction with the roundabout at Crittalls Corner to a point in Maidstone Road (B2173) 564 metres west of the western kerbline of Hockenden Lane a distance of approximately 2.67 kilometres.

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Frognal Corner eastbound exit slip road.

4

Frognal Corner eastbound access slip road.

5

Frognal Corner westbound exit slip road.

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Frognal Corner westbound access slip road.

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Crittalls Corner eastbound exit slip road.

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Crittalls Corner westbound access slip road.

SCHEDULE 2 — DE-RESTRICTED ROADS

1

That length of the Bypass which extends from a point 274 metres east of the eastern kerbline of Sevenoaks Way (A224) eastwards for a distance of approximately 576 metres.

2

Crittalls Corner eastbound access slip road.

3

Crittalls Corner westbound exit slip road.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

John Dawson — Director (Transport), London Regional Office of the — Department of Transport — 18th January 1988

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1984 c. 27.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1965/1346.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1967/1096.