The A11 Trunk Road (A505 Junction to Four Went Ways Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1993

Made: 8th June 1993

Coming into force: 23rd June 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:—

1

The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct—

• (a) along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk road”); and

• (b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the slip roads”),

shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2

The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3

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

• (a) where the highway is a highway 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 a highway so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure 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 main new trunk road is opened for the purpose of through traffic.

4

In this Order—

• (1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

5

This Order shall come into force on 23rd June 1993 and may be cited as theA11 Trunk Road (A505 Junction to Four Went Ways Improvement and Slip Roads)Order 1993.

SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the main new trunk road is a route which runs between Little Abington and Babraham in the County of Cambridgeshire about 1.83 kilometres in length, starting on the trunk road at a point 355 metres northwest of its junction with the North Road, Great Abington, then going in a northeasterly direction to rejoin the trunk road 440 metres northeast of the centre of Four Went Ways Roundabout.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are the following:—

• (1) Junction with the A505 at Bourn Bridge–

• (a) a route from the A505 to the northbound carriageway of the main new trunk road, the slip road along this route being given the reference number 1 on the deposited plan;and

• (b) a route from the southbound carriageway of the main new trunk road to the A505, the slip road along this route being given the reference number 2 on the deposited plan.

• (2) Junction with the A1307 and the A604 at Four Went Ways–

• (a) a route from the northbound carriageway of the main new trunk road to a roundabout (proposed to be constructed by the Secretary of State pursuant to the Side Roads Order, which is to connect with other highways to be constructed by him pursuant to that Order linking with the A1307 and A604 roads), the slip road along this route being given the reference number 3 on the deposited plan;

• (b) a route from that roundabout to the northbound carriageway of the main new trunk road, the slip road along this route being given the reference number 4 on the deposited plan;

• (c) a route from the southbound carriageway of the main new trunk road to that roundabout, the slip road along this route being given the reference number 5 on the deposited plan;and

• (d) a route from that roundabout to the southbound carriageway of the main new trunk road, the slip road along this route being given the reference number 6 on the deposited plan.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Peter Emms — Regional Director Eastern Region — Department of Transport — 8th June 1993

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.