Traffic management: Traffic Management Act 2004 to be investigated

05 September 2007
 
The Department for Transport (DfT) has ordered an investigation into what the Traffic Management Act 2004 has achieved.

Consultants Halcrow and TRL plan to identify what improvements the network management duty and the promised street works powers – parts two, three and four of the Act – have delivered.

The commission is ‘for three years initially’, to allow time for the impact of the new noticing system and any permit schemes that are introduced to be assessed.

A Surveyor investigation last year identified significant changes that local traffic authorities were planning, with 61% planning to review all their traffic regulation orders, for example (Surveyor, 20 April 2006).

But Jeff White, project manager at Halcrow, said that the aim for the project was to find out ‘not just what traffic managers say they’re going to do, but what they’ve now done, and what the impact’s been’. A survey will be sent to all 149 authorities later this month and a sample will be invited to give more detailed comments.

White said: ‘We’ll try to develop quantifiable measures on the impact of the Act. How many TROs have been changed? How often have you used section 56 to stop streetworks taking place at certain times? And what difference has that made?’ The plan is to report back to the DfT by spring 2010.

The noticing regulations are expected to be in place by April 2008, but the expectation is that permitting powers will not be in place until later in 2008/09.

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