Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Official Report 432KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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M9/A90/M90 Trunk Road (Humbie Rail Bridge to M9 Junction 1a) (Variable Speed Limits and Actively Managed Hard Shoulder) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/343)

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M9/A9 Trunk Road (Newbridge to Winchburgh) (Variable Speed Limits and Actively Managed Hard Shoulder) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/344)

Item 5 is subordinate legislation. The two negative instruments that are listed on the agenda will provide for variable speed limits on the M9/A90/M90 and on the M9/A9. The committee is invited to consider any issues that it wishes to raise in its report to the Parliament on the regulations. No motions to annul the regulations have been lodged and the Subordinate Legislation Committee raised no concerns about the regulations.

Does anyone have any comments on the regulations?

I have no objection or otherwise to the regulations, but variable speed limits are a relatively new idea that is being introduced on a number of roads at the moment. We might want to consider getting some feedback on the issue in future to see how successful or otherwise they have been.

That is a fair point.

Are we agreed that we do not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the regulations?

Members indicated agreement.

Good. That more or less completes our business for today.

Meeting closed at 11:43.