§ 11. Sir A. Meyerasked the Minister of Transport if he will reconsider his decision not to install emergency telephones on the Langley-Maidenhead section of the M.4 motorway.
§ Mr. SwinglerIt has always been the intention to install emergency telephones on the whole Chiswick-Maidenhead Thicket section of M.4, and they are already being put in. They will be ready for use when the whole length is opened to traffic in the spring.
§ Mr. PowellWill the hon. Gentleman look again at this question of emergency telephones on sections of M roads before the whole road is opened? Is it not pedantic not to install these telephones and bring them into use on sections which are already in use but to wait for the whole of a long stretch to be in use before that is done? They are urgently necessary.
§ Mr. SwinglerHitherto it has been the policy not to install this service on lengths of less than 20 miles, but I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that this policy is now under review and that we are considering the suggestion that he has made.