The M25 Motorway (M25 Junction 2 Improvement) (M25 to A282 Section and Connecting Road) Scheme 2004

• Citation: S.I. 2004/2562
• Sections: 5

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the M25 Motorway (M25 Junction 2 Improvement) (M25 to A282 Section and Connecting Road) Scheme 2004 and shall come into force on 21st October 2004.

Section 2

In this Scheme—

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant carriageway;

(2)

(i) “the motorway” means the M25 Motorway;

(ii) “the A2 Trunk Road” means the London—Dover Trunk Road (A2);

(iii) “the A282 Trunk Road” means the Dartford Tunnel Southern Approach Road (A282);

(iv) “the special roads” means all the special roads which the Secretary of State is authorised by this Scheme to provide;

(v) “carriageway” means a way constituting or comprised in a highway being a way over which the public have a right of way for the passage of vehicles;

(vi) “connecting road” means a special road connecting the motorway with other highways; and

(vii) “the plan” means one of the site plans numbered 1 to 2 contained in the plan folio numbered HA 16/OD/31, marked “The M25 Motorway (M25 Junction 2 Improvement) (M25 to A282 Section and Connecting Road) Scheme 2004”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at ODPM-DfT, Records Management Branch, Floor 13, (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TB37 7GA.

Section 3

The Secretary of State is authorised to provide for the use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980—

(a) a special road, which will be part of the motorway, along a route, forming two different lengths of carriageway of the A282 Trunk Road north of M25 Junction 2 at Dartford, being:

(i) a length of the northbound carriageway starting at its junction with the motorway and proceeding northwards for 220 metres (the special road along this length being given the reference number 1 on the plan);

(ii) a length of the southbound carriageway starting at its junction with the motorway and proceeding northwards for 135 metres (the special road along this length being given the reference number 2 on the plan),

(b) a special road, which will be a connecting road, along a route for the purpose of connecting the existing westbound exit slip road of the A2 Trunk Road with the existing southbound entry connecting road of the motorway at Junction 2 at Dartford (the special road along this route being given the reference number 3 on the plan),

all in the Borough of Dartford in the County of Kent.

Section 4

The centre lines of the special roads are indicated by heavy black lines on the plan.

Section 5

The special roads described at article 3(b) above shall become trunk road from the date when this Scheme comes into force.