§ Mrs. RocheTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the figure for accidents and casualties on the Archway road red route pilot and for the pilot corridor in 1991; and if he will instigate an independent inquiry of the pilot study.
§ Mr. NorrisI have no plans to instigate an inquiry. Independent monitoring of the pilot red route has already been carried out by the Transport Research Laboratory.
145WThe following figures are for the periods of 18 months before arid after the introduction of the scheme in January 1991.
Pilot route Pilot route corridor Before After Change per cent. Before After Change per cent. Accidents 701 626 -11 1,008 857 -15 Casualties 788 683 -13 1,132 951 -16 Notes:
(1) The above figures were taken from the London Accident Analysis Unit's database in November 1992. Accidents occurring 50 metres either side of major junctions, or on minor side roads within 50 metres of the centre line of the main road, have been allocated to the main road.
(2) City Road has been excluded from the table because the London Borough of Islington never implemented the red route controls there.
(3) The normal requirement for the analysis of accident statistics is a three year period. We have provided figures over the shorter period because of the particular public interest in this project.