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place
a duty on highway authorities and police forces to minimise congestion
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and delays caused by collisions
and other incidents on the highway; and for
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
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Parliament assembled, and by
the authority of the same, as follows:—
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Duties
of local traffic authorities relating to congestion
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The Traffic Management Act 2004
(c. 18) is amended as follows.
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In section 16(1) (the network
management duty), for paragraph (a) substitute—
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“(a)
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minimising congestion on the
authority’s road network;”.
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In section 17(4) (arrangements
for network management), at the end of
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paragraph (b) insert “,
including action to remove expeditiously obstructions
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caused by collisions; and
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(c)
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establishes contingency plans
to ensure that traffic is directed to
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alternative
routes when roads are temporarily closed or
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In section 19 (power to require
information relating to network management),
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after subsection (4) insert—
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A direction under this section
may require a local traffic authority to
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publish,
on an annual basis, information regarding closures or partial
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closures
of roads in excess of a specified duration, including details
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(a)
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the duration and cause, and
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(b)
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the action taken to minimise
the duration of
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Duty
of police authorities to minimise congestion
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Section 8 of the Police Act 1996
(c. 16) is amended as follows.
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After
subsection (2) insert—
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A police authority must include
in its local policing plan a requirement
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that,
in attending collisions and other incidents on roads, the police
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should,
so far as is reasonably practicable, minimise any congestion
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and
delay for road users and, in particular, only close a road as a
last
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resort
and for as short a period as possible.”
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This Act may be cited as the
Road Traffic (Congestion Reduction) Act 2008.
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This Act extends to England and
Wales only.
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