§ Sir R. Nugentasked the Minister of Transport what improvements in speed and safety of vehicle movement has been recorded by the London Passenger Transport Board in central London 151W where parking meter schemes, and other measures for improved traffic movement, have been introduced during the past five years.
§ Mr. Tom FraserThe general effect of the various traffic engineering schemes and parking control methods introduced in London in the past five years has been to improve traffic flow and check the rate of growth of traffic entering the Central London area, but the London Transport Board have no figures which would quantify that benefit. Ministry surveys show that overall journey speeds in Central London (though these are not related specifically to public service vehicles) have increased by approximately 20 per cent. But I am informed by the Board that over the whole area served by their Central (red) buses the number of miles lost for traffic reasons was 1.7 million in 1959 and 3.5 million in 1964. The rate of collision accidents per 100,000 miles run by the Board's Central buses as a whole has increased steadily each year from 6.19 in 1955 to 8.69 in 1964.