Cambridge City Council

THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE

AREA Z (CONSOLIDATION) ORDER 1991

(AMENDMENT NO.19) ORDER 1998

Cambridge City Council ("the Council") in pursuance of arrangements made under Section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972 with Cambridgeshire County Council in exercise of the powers of the said County Council under Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 19, 32, 35, 45, 46, 49, 63, and 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 ("the Act of 1984") (as amended) and of all other enabling powers and after consultation with the Chief Officer of Police in accordance with Part III of Schedule 9 to the Act of 1984 hereby make the following Order:

1. This Order shall come into operation for all purposes on the 22nd day of July 1998 and may be cited as The City of Cambridge Area Z (Consolidation) Order 1991 (Amendment No.19) Order 1998

2. In this Order the expression "the Order of 1991" shall mean The City of Cambridge Area Z (Consolidation) Order 1991 and any reference to the Order of 1993 shall be construed as a reference to that Order as varied or amended.

3. The Order of 1991 shall be amended and have effect as though the following additions were made to Article 2:

"Trishaw" means a pedal cycle not being a mechanically propelled vehicle constructed or adapted to carry passengers and which has been licensed by Cambridge City Council to carry passengers for hire or reward;

"Trishaw Rank" means an area of carriageway reserved for use by Trishaws waiting to pick up passengers;

4. The Order of 1991 shall be amended and have effect by the addition of Section 27 Articles 174 to 185 inclusive as specified by the FIRST SCHEDULE to this Order and Schedule 27 as specified by the SECOND SCHEDULE to this Order.

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FIRST SCHEDULE

SECTION 27

TRISHAW RANKS

DESIGNATION OF TRISHAW RANKS

174 Each area on a highway in the City of Cambridge which is described as a designated parking place in Schedule 27 to this Order is designated as a trishaw rank.

NUMBER, MARKING AND SITUATION OF TRISHAW RANKS

175 The limits of each trishaw rank shall be indicated by the Council on the carriageway by appropriate traffic signs.

VEHICLES FOR WHICH TRISHAW RANKS ARE DESIGNATED

176 Each trishaw rank may be used, subject to the provisions of this Order, for the leaving during the permitted hours of such vehicles as are trishaws.

MANNER OF STANDING IN TRISHAW RANK

177 Every vehicle left in a trishaw rank shall so stand that:

177(a) in the case of a trishaw rank in relation to which special provisions as to the manner of standing of vehicles in that place are specified in column 2 of Schedule 27 to this Order, as to be in accordance with those provisions: and

177(b) in the case of each trishaw rank every part of the vehicle is within the limits of the said trishaw rank.

ALTERATION OF POSITION OF VEHICLE IN TRISHAW RANK

178 Where any vehicle is standing in a trishaw rank in contravention of the provisions of the last preceding Article or of the provisions of Article 173 of this Order a traffic warden or a police constable in uniform may alter or cause to be altered the position of the vehicle in order its position shall comply with those provisions.

REMOVAL OF VEHICLE FROM TRISHAW RANK

179 Where a traffic warden or a police constable in uniform is of the opinion that any of the provisions contained in Article 174 of this Order have been contravened or not complied with in respect of a vehicle left in a trishaw rank, he or she may remove or cause to be removed the vehicle from the trishaw rank, and where it is so removed, shall provide for the safe custody of the vehicle.

MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES IN TRISHAW RANKS IN EMERGENCIES

180 A police constable in uniform or a traffic warden may move or cause to be moved, in case of emergency, to any place he or she thinks fit, any vehicle left in a trishaw rank.

POWER TO SUSPEND USE OF TRISHAW RANKS

181(1) Any person duly authorised by the Council or Chief Officer of Police may suspend the use of a trishaw rank or any part thereof whenever it is considered such suspension is reasonably necessary:

181(1)(a) for the purpose of facilitating the movement of traffic or promoting its safety;

181(1)(b) for the purpose of any building operation, demolition or excavation in or adjacent to the parking place or the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of the parking place or the laying, erection, alteration, removal or repair in or adjacent to the parking place of any sewer or of any main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity or of any telegraphic line, traffic sign, parking meter or ticket machine.

181(1)(c) for the convenience of occupiers of premises adjacent to the parking place on any occasion of the removal of furniture from one office or dwellinghouse to another or the removal of furniture from such premises to a depository or to such premises from a depository;

181(1)(d) on any occasion on which it is likely by reason of some special attraction that any street will be thronged or obstructed; or

181(1)(e)for the convenience of occupiers of premises adjacent to the parking place at times of weddings or funerals, or on other special occasions.

181(2) A police constable in uniform may suspend for not longer than twenty-four hours the use of a trishaw rank or any part thereof whenever he or she considers such suspension reasonably necessary for the purpose of facilitating the movement of traffic or promoting its safety.

181(3) Any person suspending the use of a trishaw rank or any part thereof in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) or paragraph (2) of this Article shall thereupon:

181(3)(i)when the use of any part or parts of a trishaw rank has been suspended, place or cause to be placed in or adjacent to that part or those parts a traffic sign or traffic signs indicating that waiting is prohibited.

181(4) No person shall cause or permit a vehicle to be left:

181(4)(b)in any part of the trishaw rank during such period as there is in or adjacent to that part of the trishaw rank a traffic sign placed in pursuance of paragraph (3)(i) of this Article. Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall render it unlawful to cause or permit any vehicle being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes or any vehicle being used for any purpose specified in Article 183(1)(b), (d) or (e) of this Order to be left in the trishaw rank, or part thereof during such periods referred to in this paragraph, or to any other vehicle so left if that vehicle is left with the permission:

181(4)(b)(i)of the person suspending the use of the parking place or the part thereof in pursuance of paragraph (1) of this Article; or

181(4)(b)(ii) of a police constable in uniform; or

181(4)(b)(iii) of a traffic warden.

RESTRICTION OF USE OF VEHICLES AT TRISHAW RANKS

182 No person shall use any vehicle, while it is in a trishaw rank in connection with the sale of any article to any person in or near the parking place or in connection with the selling or offering for sale of his or her skill in handicraft or his or her services in any other capacity except as a trishaw. Provided that nothing in this Article shall prevent the sale of goods from a vehicle:

182(a) if the vehicle is one which may be left in a trishaw rank in accordance with Article 174 of this Order and the goods are immediately delivered at or taken into premises adjacent to the trishaw rank in which the vehicle is left and from which the sale is affected.

RESTRICTION OF WAITING OF VEHICLES IN TRISHAW RANKS

183(1) Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Order with respect to vehicles left in a trishaw rank in accordance with those provisions, any vehicle may wait anywhere on the carriageway in a trishaw rank other than a trishaw rank or part of a trishaw rank the use of which has been suspended, if:

183(1)(a) the vehicle is waiting only for so long as is necessary to enable a person to board or alight from the vehicle;

183(1)(b) the vehicle is waiting owing to the driver being prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond his control or such waiting being necessary in order to avoid accident;

183(1)(c) the vehicle is a vehicle used for fire brigade purposes or an ambulance, or a vehicle (other than a passenger vehicle) in the service of a local authority or a vehicle in the service of a police force in either case being used in pursuance of statutory powers or duties;

183(1)(d) the vehicle is waiting only for so long as maybe necessary to enable it to be used in connection with the removal of any obstruction to traffic;

183(1)(e) the vehicle is in the service of or employed by the Post Office and is waiting while postal packets addressed to premises adjacent to the parking place in which the vehicle is waiting are being unloaded from the vehicle, or, having been unloaded therefrom, are being delivered or while postal packets are being collected from premises or posting boxes adjacent to the parking place in which the vehicle is waiting, or is in use in connection with the servicing of telephone kiosks adjacent to the parking place;

183(2) Except as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article, the driver of a vehicle shall not cause or permit the vehicle to wait in a trishaw rank.

183(3) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Article shall be taken as authorising anything which would be a contravention of any regulations made or having effect as if made under Section 25 of the Act of 1984.

MANNER OF WAITING AND STANDING IN TRISHAW RANKS

184. A person causing or permitting a vehicle to wait in a trishaw rank by virtue of the provisions of sub-paragraph (e) in paragraph (1) of the last preceding Article shall take all such steps as are necessary to ensure:

184(a)(i) in the case of a trishaw rank in relation to which special provisions as to the manner of standing of vehicles in place are specified in column 2 of Schedule 27 to this Order the vehicle shall so stand:

184(a)(ii) that every part of the vehicle is within the limits of the trishaw rank; or

184(a)(iii) that the longitudinal axis of the vehicle is parallel to the edge of the carriageway nearest to the vehicle and the distance between the said edges and the nearest wheel of the vehicle is not more than twelve inches; and

184(b) in the case of any other trishaw rank, that the longitudinal axis of the vehicle is parallel to the edge of the carriageway nearest to the vehicle and the distance between the said edge and the nearest wheel of the vehicle is not more than twelve inches.

185 Without prejudice to the generality of this Article, a vehicle to which this Article applies shall stand in the trishaw rank in accordance with the provisions of Article 177 of this Order.

SECOND SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE 27 TRISHAW RANKS (see Articles 2, 30 and 174 to 185)

Column 1 Column 2

No. of Each area of the highway described below in this column, being an area forming part

parking of the carriageway of a specified highway is designated as a trishaw rank

place

1 All that part of the southwest side of BRIDGE STREET which is bounded on the southwest by so much of the edge of the carriageway of that highway as extends from a point 101 metres northwest of the centreline of Portugal Place for a distance of 6 metres in a northwesterly direction and which has a width throughout of 2.0 metres

2 All that part of the east side of PEAS HILL which is bounded on the east by so much of the edge of the carriageway of that highway as extends from a point 3.6 metres north of the centreline of Wheeler Street for a distance of 11.6 metres in a northerly direction and which has a width throughout of 2.0 metres