The Ashton Vale to Temple Meads and Bristol City Centre Rapid Transit Order 2013

Guided busway highway crossings

15.—(1) Where by virtue of the creation of a highway or other road after the day on which application was made for this Order the authorised guided busway would cross the highway or road the promoter may construct the authorised guided busway so as to enable vehicles upon it to cross on the level the highway or road.

(2) Any traffic sign placed under the powers conferred by article 39 (traffic signs) on or near a highway or other road to which the public has access is to be treated for the purposes of section 64(4) of the 1984 Act as having been placed as provided by that Act.

(3) The highway authority and the promoter may enter into agreements with respect to the construction and maintenance of any new busway crossing; and such an agreement may contain such terms as to payment or otherwise as the parties consider appropriate.

(4) In this article “new busway crossing” means the place at which the authorised guided busway crosses a highway or other road on the level under the powers conferred by this article.