LegalizeThe A421 Trunk Road(M1 Junction 13 Improvements) Order 2008
Made: 29th July 2008
Coming into force: 31st July 2008
The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10, 12 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980 1 and now vested in her [^f00002]:
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This Order may be cited as The A421 Trunk Road (M1 Junction 13 Improvements) Order 2008 and shall come into force on 31st July 2008.
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In this Order—
- (1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;
- (i) “the new main road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order; and
- (ii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA 10/MP/089 marked “The A421 Trunk Road (M1 Junction 13 Improvements) Order 2008”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at DCLG-DfT Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA.
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The new main road shall become a trunk road from the date when this Order comes into force.
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The centre line of each of the new main road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.
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The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new main road that—
- (a) where the highway is 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 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 relevant route is opened for traffic.
SCHEDULE 1 — ROUTE OF THE NEW MAIN ROAD
junction between the existing A421 Trunk Road and the M1 south bound slip-roads at Brogborough in the County of Bedfordshire, off-set by about 4 metres to the west of the existing A421 Trunk Road in the County of Bedfordshire (the new main road being given the letter R1on the plan).
The route of the new main road includes a roundabout centred at a point on the carriageway of the existing A507 County Road (Bedford Road) 33 metres south from the centre-point of the roundabout junction between the existing A507 County Road the A421 Trunk Road and the M1 northbound slip-roads at Husborne Crawley in the County of Bedfordshire (the new main road being given the letter R2 on the plan).
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Jon Griffiths — A Divisional Director — Highways Agency — 29th July 2008
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the )
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Order will estabish the line of two new roundabouts to be constructed on the A421 Trunk Road at M1 Junction 13.
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