HC Deb 17 May 1985 vol 79 cc253-4W
Mr. Rooker

asked the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the reply on 28 March, Official Report, column 287, if the holding down bolts of the central reservation barrier of the Oldbury viaduct on the midland links motorway have been checked.

Mrs. Chalker

[pursuant to the reply, 13 May 1985, c. 64]: Not as yet.

Performance to date of the central reservation barrier has been satisfactory here and elsewhere on the midland links, but tests will be carried out at the Oldbury viaduct in the current programme of investigation.

for each year since 1979, the defects index of table 1, National Road Maintenance Condition Survey 1984; recalculated for 1979 as the base year.

Mrs. Chalker

The following is the information: