Temporary Traffic Management Order - Glasgow Road, Dumbarton

Information

To support Virgin Media diversion works associated with the Exxon project, a section of Glasgow Road will be closed, westbound only.

This will be for 300 metres, starting from the filter lane from the A82 Dumbarton Road (westbound) to A814 Glasgow Road with no vehicular access on the westbound carriageway while the works are being undertaken.

The diversion route will be via Greenhead Road which will be clearly marked.

The closure will be in place on 30 March – 7 April from 9:30am – 5pm (excluding Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th April).

Diversions and traffic management will be in place throughout.

Order

The West Dunbartonshire Council, in exercise of the powers conferred on them under Section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as amended and of all other enabling powers make the following Order:

1. This Order may be cited as The West Dunbartonshire Council (Glasgow Road, Dumbarton) (Temporary Traffic Management) Order 2026 and shall come into operation from Monday the Thirtieth Day of March Two Thousand and Twenty-Six and will remain in operation until Tuesday the Seventh Day of April Two Thousand and Twenty-Six.
2. In this Order the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them: "vehicle" unless the context otherwise requires, means a vehicle of any description and includes a machine or implement of any kind drawn or propelled along roads whether or not by mechanical power. "emergency service vehicle" means a vehicle being used by the Police, Fire or Ambulance Services.
3. No person shall drive or cause or permit to be driven any motor vehicle (with the exception of vehicles taking local access where permitted by authorised road traffic signs or traffic management contractor, emergency service vehicles and vehicles engaged in authorised road occupation) on the lengths of road specified in schedule A to this order.
4. Nothing in Article 3 of this Order shall prevent any person from causing or permitting a vehicle to wait in the length(s) of road(s) referred to in that article:
   1. if the vehicle is waiting owing to the driver being prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond his control or to such waiting being necessary to avoid an accident;
   2. to enable the vehicle, if it cannot conveniently be used for such purpose in any other road, to be used in pursuance of statutory powers and duties and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, to enable the vehicle to be used in connection with police, fire and ambulance service purposes;
   3. if the vehicle is being used for the purpose of a Universal Service Provider collecting or delivering postal packets as defined in section 125 of The Postal Services Act 2000 from premises or posting boxes adjacent thereto;
   4. to enable the vehicle to be used in connection with funeral operations.
5. Given under the seal of West Dunbartonshire Council and signed for them and on their behalf by Christopher E. Anderson, Solicitor and Proper Officer.

Schedule

All restrictions apply only when signed from 30 March 2026 until 07 April 2026.

Roads subject to Closure (article 3 - prohibition of driving when and where signs indicate).