How Experimental Traffic Regulation Orders work
An Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO) is like a Permanent Traffic Regulation Order - it is a legal document which imposes traffic and parking restrictions. We use ETROs to see if a scheme will work in practice.
An ETRO can stay in force for up to a maximum of 18 months while the effects are monitored and assessed. We welcome feedback throughout the process, however, formal objections to the order must be made in the first six months of it coming into force.
If changes to an ETRO are made, six months are allowed for objection from the date those changes came into operation. A decision on whether the changes introduced as part of the ETRO will be removed or made permanent must be made within 18 months of an order coming into force.
There is opportunity for anyone to feedback comments on specific schemes. The decision to make a scheme permanent will follow our formal decision making process.
Schemes
Electric scooter trial
Cambridgeshire County Council (Various Roads, Cambridge) (Electric Scooter Exemptions) Experimental Order 2022
This order allows electric scooters (e-scooters) being used as part of an approved rental scheme to use on-road dual use cycle tracks, cycle lanes and bus lanes in Cambridge.
This is a Government backed trial and is intended to test the use and impact of e-scooters to inform possible future legislation.
Closing date for comment is 30 September 2022.
Comments and objections
You can send comments to the Policy and Regulation Team by email to policyandregulation@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or by post to the following address:
Policy and Regulation Team
Highways Depot
Stanton Way
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 6PY
If you wish to make a formal objection, you need to wait until the ETRO is in force. Objections may be made to the order being made permanent and these must be made within six months of the day that the ETRO comes into force.
