Regulation 3 Description of traffic calming works

(1)

Subject to regulation 8 below—

(a)

for the purposes of section 39A of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984^f1 a roads authority may, in a road maintainable by them, construct the following traffic calming works:—

(i)

build-outs;

(ii)

chicanes;

(iii)

islands;

(iv)

overrun areas;

(v)

pinch-points;

(vi)

rumble devices;

(vii)

any combination of the foregoing; and

(viii)

any combination of the works specified in sub-paragraphs (i) to (vi) above with works which a roads authority have power to execute otherwise than by virtue of these Regulations;

(b)

for any of the purposes referred to in paragraph (2) below, traffic calming works may include, either on the works themselves or on the adjacent road, provision of—

(i)

lighting;

(ii)

paving, grass or other covering;

(iii)

pillars, bollards, planters, walls, rails or fences;

(iv)

objects or structures spanning the road concerned;

(v)

trees, shrubs or other plants whether in planters or not; and

(vi)

any combination of the foregoing.

(2)

The purposes referred to in paragraph (1)(b) above are—

(a)

promoting the safety of persons using the road concerned;

(b)

preserving or improving the environment through which the road concerned runs;

(c)

making the traffic calming works conspicuous;

(d)

enhancing the intended effect of the traffic calming works; and

(e)

any combination of the foregoing.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 39A was inserted by the Traffic Calming Act 1992, Schedule 2.