§ 101. Sir F. Markhamasked the Minister of Education, as representing the Minister for Science, what figures are available to show the density or volume of traffic using the A.5 between Stony Stratford and Little Brickhill now as compared with periods immediately before the opening of the M.1.
§ Sir D. EcclesThe Road Research Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has used, for the past year, an automatic traffic counter to measure the traffic flow on the A.5 at a point one mile south of Stony Stratford. The average daily flow over this counter during a week in June, 1959, was 12,200 vehicles and in October of that year was 13,000. It is estimated that the flow in June, 1960, would have been 13,200 but for the opening of the M.1 in November. It was in fact 5,500, an estimated reduction of about 58 per cent.