§ Mr. Lomasasked the Minister of Transport if he will show in table form the density of vehicles per road mile in the United Kingdom and in as many other countries as possible for which statistics are available to him from international sources.
Mr. Bob BrownThe following is the information:
Country Year Number of motor vehicles (excluding agricultural tractors) per mile of road)|| United Kingdom 1968 66 Australia* 1967 7 Austria* 1967 15 Belgium* 1967 37 Denmark* 1966 40 Finland* 1967 22 France¶ 1968 38 German Federal Republic 1967 54 Greece†§ 1968 15 Irish Republic 1968 8 Italy 1967 71 Luxembourg† 1968 34 Netherlands† 1967 35 New Zealand* 1968 18 Norway 1968 22 Poland† 1968 15 Portugal† 1967 22 Spain‡ 1967 37 Sweden† 1968 21 Switzerland 1967 49 Turkey‡ 1967 8 United States 1967 27 Yugoslavia† 1968 11 * Excluding haulage tractors. † Excluding mopeds. ‡ Excluding motor cycles, scooters and mopeds. § Excluding "communal roads". || These figures are affected by variations in the definition of a road. ¶ Excludes 697,933 kms. of local rural roads.