HC Deb 12 December 1934 vol 296 c397W
Mr. GUY

asked the Minister of Transport the number of motor vehicles disclosed by the traffic census in August, 1934, on the Edinburgh-Queensferry road, the main roads approaching Edinburgh from the west, south, and south-east, and across Stirling Bridge?

Mr. HORE-BELISHA

The average number of motor vehicles per day of 16 hours disclosed by the traffic census in August, 1934, was as follows:

Edinburgh-Queensferry Road, A.90, at Cramond Bridge 2,093
A.9, aproaching Edinburgh from the west at Carlowrie 2,311
A.9, north of Stirling Bridge 5,906

No census was taken in 1934 on the roads to the south and south-east of Edinburgh; the latest available census (of 1931) disclosed the average numbers of motor vehicles per day of 16 hours as follows:

From the south:
Edinburgh-Dairy Road, A.702, at House O'Muir 670
Hillend-Seafield Road, A.703, at Pentland Mains 743
Liberton Dams-Peebles Road, A. 701, at Edinburgh City Boundary 1,401
From the south-east:
Edinburgh-Carlisle Road, A.7, at Edinburgh City Boundary 1,159
Edinburgh-Dalkeith Road, A.68, at Drumbank 1,270