HC Deb 16 December 1970 vol 808 cc353-4W

Note: Barrier Length in miles approximate.

PHASE I—1971–72
Miles
Existing Motorways
M1 Scratchwood Service area—Catthorpe M1/M6 junction 52
M63 Stretford Eccles By-pass 8
M4 Almondsbury-Severn Bridge 7
A1 (M) Doncaster By-pass 8
Motorways under construction
M62 Whitefield-Outlane 21
Gildersome-Lofthouse 6
M53 Mid-Wirral 11
M56 Wythenshawe-Bowden 7
M6 Catthorpe-Queslett Road 36
M40 Beaconsfield By-pass 1
M4 Holyport-Tormarton 78
A20 (M) Ditton By-pass 7
M3 Black water-Lightwater 5
Total 247

PHASE II—1972–73
Existing Motorways
A1 (M) Darlington By-pass 13
Stevenage-Baldock By-pass 14
M6 Broughton-Rayhall 105
M40 Stokenchurch-Burkes Road 14
M2 Strood-Boughton 25
Motorways under construction
M62 Outlane-Gildersome 12
Lofthouse-Ferrybridge 13
Liverpool-Worsley 23
M40 Waterstock-Stokenchurch 10
B473 Junction-Denham 7
M23 Merstham-Pease Pottage 15
M5 Avon Bridge-Edithmead 22
Total 273

PHASE III—1973–74
Existing Motorways
M6 Broughton-Carnforth 26
M61 Preston By-pass-Horwich 13
M62 Worsley-Whitefield 4
M18 Morthen (M1/M18 Junction)-Doncaster By-pass 9
M1 Catthorpe (M1/M6 Junction)-Morthen (M1/M18 Junction) 73
M45 Dunchurch Spur 8
M5 Quinton-Avon Bridge 85
A20 (M) Maidstone By-pass 7
M3 Popham-Dummer 2
Blackdam-Hook 5
Miles
Motorways under construction
M56 Bowden-North of Preston Brook 11
Sharston By-pass 3
M63 Sale and Northenden By-pass 4
A1 (M) Lemsford-Welwyn 3
M1 Staples Corner-Five Ways 4
M3 Lightwater-Sudbury 13
M25 Egham-Chertsey 5
M5 Edithmead-Huntworth 10
Total 285

PHASE IV—1974–75
Existing Motorways
M6 Carnforth-Thrimby 35
M56 Preston Brook-Hapsford 8
M61 Horwich-A580 Junction 9
Motorways under construction
M62 Ferrybridge-Gilberdyke 21
M42 Birmingham-Nottingham 55
M54 Wellington By-pass 6
Telford-M6 Junction 16
M23 Mitcham-Merstham 11
Northern Terminal East-West Link 4
M25 Chertsey-Leatherhead 12
M27 Cadnam-Portsbridge 32
M5 Huntworth-South of Exeter 40
Total 249
Grand Total 1,054

Sir Clive Bossom

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will provide full details of the programme for the installation of crash barriers on 1,000 miles of motorway by 1975.

Mr. Graham Page

I would refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave earlier today to my hon. Friend the hon. Member for Wembley, South (Sir R. Russell).