The A1(M) Motorway and the M62 Motorway (Holmfield Interchange Link Roads) (Speed Limit) Regulations 2008

Made: 20th August 2008

Laid before Parliament: 27th August 2008

Coming into force: 22nd September 2008

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 17(2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984¹, after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 134(2) of that Act, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and Commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the A1(M) Motorway and the M62 Motorway (Holmfield Interchange Link Roads) (Speed Limit) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 22nd September 2008.

Imposition of speed limit

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No person shall drive any vehicle at a speed exceeding 50 miles per hour on any road specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — The A1(M) Motorway and the M62 Motorway (Holmfield Interchange Link Roads) (Speed Limit) Regulations

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A 50 miles per hour speed limit will apply to:

• (i) the link road connecting the A1(M) Motorway northbound carriageway to the M62 Motorway westbound carriageway at Holmfield Interchange, from a point 360 metres north of the centreline of Pontefract Road overbridge to a point 62 metres west of the centreline of Holmfield Lane South Subway, a total distance of 580 metres;

• (ii) the link road connecting the A1(M) Motorway southbound carriageway to the M62 Motorway westbound link road at Holmfield Interchange, from a point 220 metres north of the centreline of Stranglands Lane overbridge to a point 440 metres west of the centreline of Holmfield Lane South Subway, a total distance of 1370 metres;

• (iii) the A1(M) Motorway southbound to the M62 Motorway eastbound link road at Holmfield Interchange, from a point 251 metres south of the centreline of Stranglands Lane overbridge to a point 346 metres west of the centreline of Pontefract Road overbridge, a total distance of 416 metres;

• (iv) the M62 Motorway westbound to the A1(M) Motorway northbound link road at Holmfield Interchange, from a point 255 metres west of the centreline of Pontefract Road overbridge to its merge with the A1(M) Motorway northbound carriageway, a total distance of 800 metres;

• (v) the M62 Motorway eastbound to the A1(M) Motorway northbound link road at Holmfield Interchange, from a point 80 metres west of the centreline of Holmfield Lane overbridge to 250 metres east of the centreline of Holmfield Lane Overbridge, a total distance of 330 metres; and

• (vi) the M62 Motorway eastbound to A1(M) Motorway southbound link road at Holmfield Interchange, from a point 410 metres west of the centreline of Holmfield Lane overbridge to a point 165 metres south of the centreline of Pontefract Road overbridge, a total distance of 1450 metres.

Signed

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Tom Harris — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 20th August 2008

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations impose speed limits on the link roads of the newly constructed A1(M) Motorway and the M62 Motorway Holmfield Interchange. The A1(M) Motorway/M62 Motorway Holmfield Interchange was built as part of the upgrading of the A1 Trunk Road to the A1(M) Motorway in West Yorkshire.

The principal provision of the regulations is to impose a 50 miles per hour speed limit on specified lengths of the six free flow link roads connecting the A1(M) Motorway and the M62 Motorway at Holmfield Interchange as described in the Schedule.

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