The A604 Trunk Road (Alconbury to A1 Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1993

Made: 17th November 1993

Coming into force: 14th December 1993

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by section 10 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 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

In this Order—

• (1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway; (2)

• (i) “the deposited plan”means the plan numbered HA10/2E/339, marked “The A604 Trunk Road (Alconbury to A1 Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1993”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

• (ii) “the trunk road” means the A604 Trunk Road.

4

This Order shall come into force on 14th December 1993 and may be cited as the A604 Trunk Road (Alconbury to A1 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 at Alconbury in the District of Huntingdon in the County of Cambridgeshire, approximately 500 metres in length, starting on the trunk road at a point 950 metres south of the junction of the A1 trunk road with C103 Vinegar Hill, then going in a northerly direction to join the A1 trunk road 300 metres south of its junction with C103 Vinegar Hill.

SCHEDULE 2 — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are the following

1

A route from the southbound carriageway of the trunk road to a proposed new roundabout and a route to that carriageway from that roundabout. The slip roads along these routes are, respectively, given the reference numbers 2 and 1 on the deposited plan.

2

A route to the northbound carriageway of the trunk road from a proposed new roundabout, the slip road along this route being given the reference number 3 on the deposited plan.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Peter Emms — Regional Director Eastern Region — Department of Transport — 17th November 1993

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66

[^f00002]: S.I. 1981/238