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19-592: Green Lane may refer to: Green lane (road) , a type of route Green Lane (Stockport) , a defunct football ground in Stockport, England Green Lane, George Town , Penang, Malaysia Green Lane, London , United Kingdom Green Lane, Pennsylvania , United States Greenlane , Auckland, New Zealand Green Lane, Singapore Green Lane Bridge in Philadelphia See also [ edit ] Green Lane Hospital ,

38-589: A state government . For example, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority is an instrumentality and administrative agency of the State of Illinois . The Authority has the power to collect and raise tolls, and is responsible for the maintenance and construction of tollway roads and related signage (including electronic message boards , used for driving-time notices, Amber Alerts , and other notifications). The Authority also supervises and manages

57-511: A considerably more extensive network still available to vehicular users. It is calculated that before the CRoW Act approximately 5% of the national rights of way network was open to vehicular use, while post-CRoW this has halved to around 2 to 3%. The various users of rights of way disagree (often passionately) about the other users' rights. Walkers' groups (such as the Ramblers' Association ) advocate

76-715: A psychiatric hospital in Devizes, England Greenlane Clinical Centre , hospital in Auckland, New Zealand - formerly Green Lane Hospital, Auckland Green Lane Cricket Ground in Durham, England Green Lane railway station , Wirral, England Green Lane Masjid , a large mosque in Birmingham, England Harringay , a neighbourhood in the London borough of Haringey sometimes incorrectly referred to as Green Lanes or Harringay Green Lanes because of

95-665: Is a government agency under the Malaysian Ministry of Works. The agency was founded in 1980 to build the North-South Expressway, but now the main function of Malaysian Highway Authority is to monitor the works and administration of expressways in Malaysia as subject to Federal Roads Act (Private Managements) 1984. The National Highway Authority is responsible for building and maintaining highways and motorways in Pakistan. In

114-501: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Green lane (road) In particular, a green lane is unmetalled, and may be so infrequently used that there is no wearing of the surface, allowing vegetation to colonise freely, hence "green". Many green lanes are ancient routes that have existed for millennia, such as hollow ways , drover's roads , ridgeways and even ancient trackways . Under modern public rights-of-way (PROW) law,

133-575: Is significant as RUPPs allowed motorised vehicular access, while restricted byways do not. This change resulted in some conflict between user groups. Some highway authorities neglected to carry out their responsibilities under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 . This has meant that some counties, e.g. Somerset, have minimal off-road rights of way available to motorised vehicles, while other counties, e.g. Kent and Wiltshire, have

152-543: The United Kingdom a highway authority is an organisation that is responsible for the maintenance of public roads. The current role of a highway authority is defined in the Highways Act 1980 and the role is held by a large number of different groups. In England, Scotland, and Wales the highway authorities for trunk roads (which include most motorways ) are, respectively, ' National Highways ', ' Transport Scotland ', and

171-474: The Welsh Government . For all other roads and public rights of way, the highway authority is usually the county council or unitary authority for a particular area. District councils may carry out some of the functions of a highway authority, but only when these have been delegated to them by their county council. Transport for London is the highway authority for all Greater London Authority roads (under

190-514: The Highways Act 1980). Duties of the highway authorities can include: In the U.S., a highway authority is now usually called a department of transportation , owing to the expanded responsibility for mass transport like passenger rail and even airports and ferry service. Some U.S. states also have separate highway authorities for toll roads , sometimes the responsibility of a regional government or metropolitan government rather than

209-787: The Island the Green Lanes in the West and in the East do not link up. Highway authority A highway authority is a government organization responsible for public roads . The National Highways Authority of India is the national authority for the management of a network of over 60,000 km of national highways in India. The Authority is a part of the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways. Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia (LLM) or Malaysian Highway Authority

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228-460: The appearance of byways. As these routes are maintained at public expense, along with the rest of the highway network, it is presumed that these routes are open to all traffic. They are not shown on the definitive map . The Countryside Act 1968 required all highway authorities to reclassify RUPPs in their area—occasionally as footpaths but in practice generally as bridleways, unless public vehicular rights were demonstrated to exist, in which case

247-539: The basis that a road is just that, regardless of the type of surface. In Jersey , a Green Lane is a road designated as priority for pedestrians, cyclists and horse-riders to which a 15 mph (24 km/h) speed limit applies. The first Green Lanes were introduced in St Peter in 1994. All parishes , except St Saviour and Trinity , have since joined the Green Lane network, but since St Saviour and Trinity adjoin across

266-451: The expression "green lane" has no legal meaning. Instead, there are four different types of public right of way, listed below, in addition to public roads: An unclassified county road (UCR) is an obsolete expression and is no indication of a right of way, although they may be maintained and repaired at public expense by local highway authorities. The surfaces of these routes can vary from broken tarmac and gravel to only grass, often having

285-495: The railway station Green Lanes (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Green Lane . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green_Lane&oldid=1249123049 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

304-592: The removal of vehicular rights on BOATs. Cyclists' and equestrians' groups fear for their rights, while vehicular use of public rights of way is increasingly being seen as unacceptable and has been targeted for further restrictions. The rights of vehicle users are represented by the Green Lane Association, also known as GLASS, All Terrain UK and the Trail Riders Fellowship, who oppose these restrictions on

323-466: The road was classified as a byway open to all traffic. This process involved extensive research into historic usage and often public enquiries. Section 47 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 set a time limit of 2026 for every highway authority to complete the reclassification exercise. The Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (NERC) changed the deadline to 2 May 2006. This change

342-417: The seven Illinois Tollway oases ( rest areas ). The Illinois DOT manages other state roads . The National Road Construction Treasury (gr: Ταμείο Εθνικής Οδοποιίας) was in charge of the maintenance and operation of the national road network and the highway network until their gradual privatization by highway with the concession contract method at the end of the 2000s. Then it had under its responsibilities

361-483: The undersea tunnel of Preveza-Aktio and the Malgara toll station. In 2013 it merged with state-owned company Egnatia Odos SA. This law -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This organization-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to urban planning is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This road-related article

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