ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984—SECTION 84

The A3 Trunk Road (Kingston-upon-Thames, Merton and Elmbridge) (50 m.p.h. speed limit) Order 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he has made the above-named Order, the effect of which is to impose a speed limit of 50 m.p.h. on the A3 Trunk Road in the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, London Borough of Merton and London Borough of Elmbridge. On the main south-westbound carriageway of the Kingston By-pass, the speed limit will extend from a point 118 metres south of the southern kerb-line of the southern entrance to the service road to Vale Crescent, southwards, to a point 210 metres west of the southern kerb-line of its junction with Kingston By-pass Road (A309) (a distance of 10.6 kilometres). On the main north-eastbound carriageway of the Esher By-pass, the speed limit will extend from a point 129 metres north of the southern boundary of Lovelace Primary School to a point on the Kingston By-pass, 118 metres south of the southern kerb-line of the southern entrance to the service road to Vale Crescent (a distance of 11.9 kilometres).   The length of the A3 Trunk Road which will be affected by this Order is currently subject to a speed limit of 70 m.p.h.   A copy of the Order, a plan which illustrates its effect and a statement of the Secretary of State’s reasons for proposing the Order, have been deposited at the offices of the Highways Agency, London Network and Customer Services, Room 5/25B, St. Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 OTE, and at the offices of the London Borough of Merton, Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden SM4 5DX; the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Directorate of Environmental Services, Engineering and Transportation, Guildhall, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 1EU, and at the offices of Elmbridge Borough Council, Civic Centre, High Street, Esher KT10 9SD, where they may be inspected between 9.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays inclusive, excepting bank holidays, until 3rd July 1998. T. Williams, a Grade 7 Officer in the Highways Agency, London Network and Customer Services.