HC Deb 09 November 1971 vol 825 cc121-2W
Mr. Ashton

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the criteria needed for the installation of traffic signals at dangerous road junctions.

Mr. Eldon Griffiths

A need to reduce accidents or congestion or to replace police supervision. The minimum amount of traffic justifying signals is taken to be an average flow over 16 hours of the day of about 300 vehicles per hour of which not less than 100 are on the minor road.