Road Traffic Acts
LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON
The Islington (Bus Lanes) (No. 1) Traffic Order 1998 Relating to Junction Road, N.19
Notice is hereby given that, on 23rd January 1998, the Council of the London Borough
of Islington made the above-mentioned Order under section 6 of the Road Traffic Regulation
Act 1984, as amended by the Local Government Act 1985 and the Road Traffic Act 1991.
The general effect of the Bus Lanes Order will be to vary the existing Bus Lanes
Order, in so far as it relates to Junction Road, N.19, so as to create two sections
of Bus Lanes as follows:
Northbound:
The north-west side, between a point 24 metres south of the south-western kerb-line
of Highgate Hill and a point 15 metres north of the north-eastern kerb-line of Vorley
Road.
This section of Bus Lane will be in operation from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and from 4
p.m. to 7 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.
Southbound:
The south-east side, between a point 12.50 metres north of a point opposite the
party wall of 179 and 181 Junction Road and a point 22.50 metres south-west of the
western kerb-line of Fulbrook Road.
This section of Bus Lane will be in operation from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Mondays
to Saturdays.
The width of both of these sections of Bus Lane will be 3.2 metres.
The prohibitions will not apply to:
(a) a local service, a schedule express carriage, a school bus or a works bus;
or
(b) a coach
(c) a dial-a-ride vehicle (a vehicle providing a service for the carriage of disabled
persons and those accompanying them); or
(d) a pedal cycle; or
(e) a taxi cab
(f) a vehicle being used for ambulance, fire brigade or police purposes.
(g) any vehicle being used in connection with the removal of any obstruction in
a bus lane; or
(h) a vehicle being used for purposes in connection with the statutory powers to
duties of a local authority or the supply of gas, water or electricity, or in connection
with any building operation, demolition or excavation in or adjacent to a bus lane;
(i) a vehicle of the Royal Mail Service;
(j) any vehicle which enteres the bus lane for sole purpose of waiting for as long
as may be reasonably necessary to assist a disabled person;
(k) any vehicle which enters or proceeds in the bus lane:
(i) from any road if that vehicle forthwith leaves the bus lane through any
gap in the longitudinal single white line or through the broken white line situated
opposite and adjacent to the junction of that road with that bus lane, or if there
is no such gap or broken white line, at a point opposite the road; or
(ii) from any part of Junction Road which is not comprised in the bus lane
through any gap in the longitudinal single white line or through the broken white
line if that vehicle forthwith enters the road which lies opposite and adjacent to
that gap or broken white line, at a point opposite that road if the vehicle forthwith
enters that road; or
(iii) from any vehicular accessway or crossing over the footway adjoining the
bus lane if that vehicle forthwith leaves the bus lane at a point opposite that vehicular
accessway or crossing; or
(iv) from any part of Junction Road which is not comprised in the bus lane
at a point opposite any vehicular accessway or crossing over the footway adjoining
the bus lane if the vehicle forthwith enters that vehicular accessway or crossing;
or
(l) any vehicle if the driver thereof is obliged to enter or proceed in the bus
lane in order to avoid an accident and forthwith caused that vehicle to leave the
bus lane; or
The prohibitions referred to in paragraph 2 of this notice will not apply in relation
to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police officer in uniform.
A copy of the Order, of the (Islington) Bus Lanes Regulations 1962 and of the Orders
which have amended that Order can be inspected during normal office hours on Mondays
to Fridays inclusive, until the expiration of a period of 6 weeks from the date of
this notice, at The Legal Department, Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1 2UD, please
ask for Ref. LE/C/HGF.
Copies of the Order may also be obtained from the Legal Department.
Objections
Any person desiring to question the validity of the Order, or any provision contained
therein on the grounds that it is not within the relevant powers of the Road Traffic
Regulation Act 1984, or that any of the relevant requirements thereof or any of the
regulations made thereunder have not been complied with in relation to the Order may,
within 6 weeks of the date on which the Order was made, make application for the purposes
to the High Court.
M. Rosenthal, Head of Law and Solicitor to the Council 29th January 1998.