The A2 Trunk Road (West of Rochester) Detrunking Order 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/853
• Sections: 5

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the A2 Trunk Road (West of Rochester) Detrunking Order 1996 and shall come into force on 9th April 1996.

Section 2

In this Order

(1) each measurement of distance is measured along the route of the relevant highway;

(2)

(i) “classified road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classed as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads; and

(ii) “the trunk road” means the London-Dover Trunk Road (A2).

Section 3

The lengths of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be trunk roads and shall be classified as classified roads from the date on which this Order comes into force.

Section 1

the eastbound carriageway of the trunk road from its bifurcation from the Medway Towns Bypass Motorway (M2) eastwards to a point 50 metres east of the point where it joins the westbound carriageway of the trunk road, a distance of 480 metres, and

Section 2

the westbound carriageway of the trunk road from a point 50 metres east of its bifurcation from the eastbound carriageway of the trunk road, westwards for a distance of 600 metres.