SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2REQUIREMENTS

PART 1REQUIREMENTS

Traffic monitoring

14.—(1) Before the tunnel area is open for traffic, the undertaker must submit written details of an operational traffic impact monitoring scheme substantially in accordance with the wider network impacts management and monitoring plan for approval by the Secretary of State following consultation by the undertaker with the relevant local highway authority and where different, the relevant planning authority and other bodies identified in Table 2.1 of the wider network impacts management and monitoring plan on matters related to their respective functions.

(2) The scheme under paragraph (1) must include—

(a)details of a before and after survey to establish the baseline traffic levels and the changes in traffic;

(b)the locations to be monitored;

(c)the methodology to be used to collect the required data;

(d)the periods over which operational traffic is to be monitored;

(e)the method of assessment of traffic data; and

(f)a programme for the provision of the collected data to the relevant local highway authorities

(3) The scheme approved under sub-paragraph (1) must be implemented by the undertaker unless otherwise agreed with the Secretary of State following consultation by the undertaker with the relevant local highway authority and where different, the relevant planning authority and other bodies identified in Table 2.1 of the wider network impacts management and monitoring plan on matters related to their respective functions.

(4) In this paragraph, “wider network impacts management and monitoring plan” means the document of that description listed in Schedule 16 (documents to be certified) and certified by the Secretary of State.