Part 4: Transport Section 28: Power to direct a local traffic authority
Section 28(1) allows the Secretary of State to direct a local traffic authority to make a Games temporary traffic regulation order or issue a Games temporary traffic regulation notice. The Secretary of State may make such a direction only if satisfied that such action is necessary for any of the purposes specified in section 26 and the relevant local traffic authority has failed to take that action within 7 days of being asked by the Secretary of State. Under subsection (7) the Secretary of State must issue the direction in writing and may revoke it.
	Subsection (2) places a requirement on the Secretary of State to consult a number of groups before requesting a local traffic authority to take the action. Subsection (3) provides that the Secretary of State is not bound by the requirements to consult or to request the local traffic authority to take action if satisfied that the direction must be issued without delay.
	Under subsections (4) and (5), if the direction is not complied with before the end of the period specified in the direction, the Secretary of State will be able to take the directed action in place of the relevant local traffic authority and may recover from the authority the costs of so acting.
	Subsection (6) sets out that the Secretary of State may not issue a direction under this section to the local authority or combined authority directed to prepare the Games transport plan should that authority acquire powers as per section 27(1) and (2).