§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport if he will state the designed traffic capacity of the A4 road between Reading and Newbury.
Mr. Bob BrownThe theoretical traffic capacity for design purposes is about 11,000 vehicles per day where there is a single carriageway and about 25,000 vehicles per day where there are dual carriageways.
§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport if he will state the designed traffic capacity of the A4 road between Newbury and Hungerford.
Mr. Bob BrownThe theoretical traffic capacity for design purposes is about 11,000 vehicles per day.
§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport if he will give details of the volume of traffic using the A4 road between Reading and Newbury during each of the last five 12-month periods to the latest convenient date.
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Mr. Bob BrownThe daily average numbers of vehicles for the last five years are as follows:
1964 … … … … 14,427 1965 … … … … 15,665 1966 … … … … 16,902 1967 … … … … 18,420 1968 … … … … 20,000 The figures for 1965 and 1968 are based on actual counts. The others are calculations, based on assumed growth rate.
§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport if he will give details of the volume of traffic using the A4 road between Newbury and Hungerford during each of the last five 12-month periods to the latest convenient date.
Mr. Bob BrownThe daily average numbers of vehicles for the last five years are as follows:
1964 … … … … 9,997 1965 … … … … 10,866 1966 … … … … 11,735 1967 … … … … 12,680 1968 … … … … 13,829 The figures for 1965 and 1968 are based on actual counts. The others are calculations, based on assumed growth rate.
§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport what is the number of fatalities that have been caused by accidents on the A4 road between Reading and Newbury during each of the last five 12-month periods to the latest convenient date.
Mr. Bob BrownThe numbers of fatalities during each calendar year have been:
1964 … 5 1965 … 12 1966 … 12 1967 … 12 1968 to 2nd December, 1968 … 19
§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport what is the number of fatalities that have been caused by accidents on the A4 road between Newbury and Hungerford during each of the last five 12-month periods to the latest convenient date.
Mr. Bob BrownThe numbers of fatalities during each calendar year have been:
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1964 … 6 1965 … 6 1966 … 3 1967 … 7 1968 to 2nd December, 1968 … 8
§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport what is the number of accidents involving personal injury that have occurred on the A4 road between Reading and Newbury during each of the last five 12-month periods to the latest convenient date.
Mr. Bob BrownThe numbers of accidents involving personal injury during the last five years are:
1964 … 133 1965 … 138 1966 … 112 1967 … 149 1968 to 2nd December 1968 … 126
§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport what is the number of accidents involving personal injury that have occurred on the A4 road between Newbury and Hungerford during each of the last five 12-month periods to the latest convenient date.
Mr. Bob BrownThe numbers of accidents involving personal injury during the last five years are:
1964 … 43 1965 … 48 1966 … 43 1967 … 48 1968 to 2nd December, 1968 … 39
§ Mr. Astorasked the Minister of Transport if he will give details of the results of the experiment with offset double white lines on the A4 road between Reading and Newbury, taking into account the relative volumes of traffic; and how these results compare with similar experiments elsewhere in Great Britain.
§ Mr. MarshThe number of accidents involving injury on the A4 length of road marked with offset double white lines was 9 per cent. higher than would have been expected from the experience on comparable roads selected to reflect the same increase in traffic volumes.
The actual increase in injury accidents of 17 per cent. was not as high as that at 5 of the other 7 experimental sites in England, but showed the same significant trend which led to the experiment being abandoned.