Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as The Motorways Traffic (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2007.

Amendments

2.  In Schedule 2 to the Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984(4) after paragraph 3 there shall be added the following paragraph —

“4.  The area of the citybound hard shoulder of the Motorway M2, from a point 380 metres north-west of the centre line of Ballycraigy Road South where it passes under the Motorway M2 at Ardkeen Bridge to its junction with the Sandyknowes Roundabout at the end of the south-bound off-slip bounded on its eastern side by the kerb at the edge of the hard shoulder and on its western side by the outer edge of a road marking in the form of —

(a) a broken longitudinal white line; or

(b) two continuous longitudinal white lines encompassing white chevrons.”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

These regulations further amend the Motorways Traffic Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1984 by permitting the additional area of hard shoulder of the length of the Motorway M2 specified in the Schedule to be used as a bus lane during the hours 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. on Monday to Friday.