The Department for Transport has pressed ahead with guidance on when the Secretary of State will intervene in the event of local authorities in England failing to manage their road network.
The Guidance on Intervention Criteria, issued under the Traffic Management Act, states that highway authorities will have an opportunity to get their act together under an ‘intervention notice’, which will be issued when ministers consider the authority may be failing to perform its duties. An ‘intervention order’ will be issued when ministers are convinced an authority is failing its traffic duties, paving the way for the appointment of a traffic director.
However, the guidance states: ‘Making an intervention order to appoint a traffic director will be a situation reached only after serious efforts have been made to raise the standard of an authority that may not be properly managing its road network.’ The guidance also emphasises that the act should not undermine an authority’s road safety objectives. The order comes into force on March 12.

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