Highways Act 1980

69 Subways. E+W

(1) For the purpose of protecting from danger traffic along a highway which consists of or comprises a made-up carriageway, or of making the crossing of it less dangerous to pedestrians, the highway authority for the highway may construct, light and maintain subways under the highway for the use of pedestrians, and may alter, remove or close temporarily any such subway.

(2) With respect to highways in Greater London, the powers of a highway authority under subsection (1) above may be exercised with that authority’s consent—

(a) in the case of a highway for which the Minister[F1 or a strategic highways company] is the highway authority, by the council of a London borough or the Common Council, as respects any parts of the highway in that council’s area; and

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(3) Subsection (1) above has effect in relation to a road which consists of or comprises a made-up carriageway and to which the public have access, but which is not a highway, as if it were a highway and as if the council of the district or London borough in which the road is situated were the highway authority for it or, in the case of a road situated in the City, as if the Common Council were the highway authority for it [F3 or, in the case of a road in Wales, as if the Welsh council in whose area it is situated were the highway authortiy for it].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 69(2)(a) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 24; S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)

F2 S. 69(2)(b) repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17

F3 Words in s. 69(3) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(1), Sch. 7 Pt. I para. 7 (with s. 54(7), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch.1.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 69 functions made exercisable concurrently (3.3.2017) by The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/251), arts. 1(2)(b), 9(2)(g)(3)