ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

The A23 Trunk Road (Croydon) Red Route (Prohibited Turns) Traffic Order 1998

The Traffic Director for London, following a direction given to him by the Secretary of State under section 58(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991, to implement a Trunk Road Local Plan hereby gives notice as follows:   The A23 Trunk Road (Croydon) Red Route (Prescribed Route No. 2) Experimental Traffic Order 1996 (“the experimental Order”) was made under section 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, and came into force on 10th January 1997.   Notice of the making of the experimental Order was published on 3rd January 1996. That notice contained a statement that the Traffic Director would be considering in due course whether the provisions of the experimental Order should be continued in force indefinitely. The Traffic Director has carefully considered whether or not those provisions should be continued indefinitely and has decided that they should be so continued.   Therefore, in exercise of powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 6 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, and in accordance with regulation 14 of the Secretary of State’s Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1990, the Traffic Director has made the A23 Trunk Road (Croydon) Red Route (Prohibited Turns) Traffic Order 1998 (“the permanent Order”). That Order will come into force on 26th January 1998, and the effect of that Order will be to continue in force indefinitely the provisions of the experimental Order.   The road affected by the permanent Order is A23 Purley Way.   A copy of the permanent Order, a map indicating the location and effect of the Order and a copy of the experimental Order and any other Order revoked, suspended or varied by the permanent Order can be inspected during normal office hours at the offices of:   The Traffic Director for London, College House, Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3LN.   Croydon Borough Council, One Stop Shop - Desk 8, Taberner House, Park Lane, Croydon CR9 1JT.   Any person desiring to question the validity of the permanent Order, or of any provision contained in it on the grounds that it is not within the relevant powers, or that any of the relevant requirements have not been complied with in relation to that Order, may, within 6 weeks of the date on which that Order was made, make application for the purpose to the High Court. D. Turner, Traffic Director for London 16th January 1998.