wrote:
In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

The answer to your original question (any Highways Agency roads in
Greater London other than motorways) is "No".

Indeed. All the motorway box remnants (M41 and A102(M)) were demoted
some time ago. Was it in preparation for the Mayor and GLA or well
before then?

Apparently the roads were declassified in May 2000, the month before the GLA
started up. Various websites suggest it was because TfL were not getting
powers to look after motorways, and they would have had to stay with the
Highways Agency if left as motorways.

I don't think there is a consistent national policy on this though, because
there are definitely motorways elsewhere that are the responsibility of
local authorities, such as the M275 into Portsmouth.

It may have just seemed a convenient opportunity for DfT to drop the odd
isolated lengths into someone else's lap, ie the GLA. Maybe GLA wouldn't
take them initially, and the downgrade forced them to?

Paul S

In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

Various websites suggest it was because TfL were not getting
powers to look after motorways, and they would have had to stay
with the Highways Agency if left as motorways.

In 2000, all roads within Greater London were transferred to a new body,
"Transport for London". Unfortunately, whoever wrote the legislation made
an error, and TfL have no power to be the authority in charge of
motorways...

www.pathetic.org.uk

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On Jan 18, 2:59*pm, (Paul Cummins) wrote:

In 2000, all roads within Greater London were transferred to a new body,
"Transport for London".

That is wrong. Most roads remained with the London Borough councils on
formation of TfL and still remain so. Apart from the former motorways
already mentioned, only the existing Red Routes plus a handful of
roads that later became Red Routes (a small percentage of the total
length of roads in London, albeit the "most important") became the
responsibility of TfL.

Peter

In uk.transport.london message , Sun,
17 Jan 2010 09:05:03, Phil Richards
posted:
Who is responsible for repairs in London, the local council or TfL?
Since the snow has thawed a small pothole outside my house has got much
bigger. TfL's site allowed me to report the problem which I did.

I then happened to visit Haringey's website to report a huge pile of
rubbish dumped a bit further down the road. They seemed to be quite
keen to take details of the problem with a special page on their site:

http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/new...news/call_the_
pothole_hotline_during_the_thaw.htm


http://www.fixmystreet.com/ covers all GB, but not NI.

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In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

wrote:
In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

The answer to your original question (any Highways Agency roads in
Greater London other than motorways) is "No".

Indeed. All the motorway box remnants (M41 and A102(M)) were demoted
some time ago. Was it in preparation for the Mayor and GLA or well
before then?

Apparently the roads were declassified in May 2000, the month
before the GLA started up. Various websites suggest it was because
TfL were not getting powers to look after motorways, and they would
have had to stay with the Highways Agency if left as motorways.

I don't think there is a consistent national policy on this though,
because there are definitely motorways elsewhere that are the
responsibility of local authorities, such as the M275 into
Portsmouth.

Are you sure they don't just look after it as agents for the Highways
Agency? A lot of trunk roads used to be managed like that.

It may have just seemed a convenient opportunity for DfT to drop
the odd isolated lengths into someone else's lap, ie the GLA.
Maybe GLA wouldn't take them initially, and the downgrade forced
them to?

Well, the M41 had some sort of accolade as Britain's shortest motorway.

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Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
() wrote:

Well, the M41 had some sort of accolade as Britain's shortest
motorway.

It never was...

at 0.7 miles long, it was a positive giant compared to, for example, the
0.5 mile long former A46(M) and A36(M), and was clearly longer than the
still extant A308(M).

The shortest motorway in the country seems to be the A635(M) in
Manchester. A motorway for a whole 300m.

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In article t,
(Paul Cummins) wrote:

In article ,
() wrote:

Well, the M41 had some sort of accolade as Britain's shortest
motorway.

It never was...

at 0.7 miles long, it was a positive giant compared to, for example, the
0.5 mile long former A46(M) and A36(M), and was clearly longer than the
still extant A308(M).

The shortest motorway in the country seems to be the A635(M) in
Manchester. A motorway for a whole 300m.

But they were all motorway-class A roads, not true motorways!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
() wrote:

The shortest motorway in the country seems to be the A635(M) in
Manchester. A motorway for a whole 300m.

But they were all motorway-class A roads, not true motorways!

They are all "special roads" under the 1954? act. They are motorways by
virtue of being designated as such.

So - regardless of their alpha-numeric designation, they are motorways.

Would you even try to suggest that the A74(M) isn't a motorway?

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Wasting Bandwidth since 1981

wrote in message
...
In article ,
(Paul Scott) wrote:

I don't think there is a consistent national policy on this though,
because there are definitely motorways elsewhere that are the
responsibility of local authorities, such as the M275 into
Portsmouth.

Are you sure they don't just look after it as agents for the Highways
Agency? A lot of trunk roads used to be managed like that.

I am absolutely 100% positive. For example:

http://www.highways.gov.uk/foirespon...ses/21993.aspx

Paul S

In article t,
(Paul Cummins) wrote:

In article ,
() wrote:

The shortest motorway in the country seems to be the A635(M) in
Manchester. A motorway for a whole 300m.

But they were all motorway-class A roads, not true motorways!

They are all "special roads" under the 1954? act. They are motorways by
virtue of being designated as such.

So - regardless of their alpha-numeric designation, they are
motorways.

Would you even try to suggest that the A74(M) isn't a motorway?

shrug

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Colin Rosenstiel