§ Mr. Speedasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the current forecast of vehicles-per-day flow on the Maidstone, Ashford, Cheriton, and Folkestone sections of the M20 in its design year.
§ Mr. CarmichaelThe forecasts of the traffic flow in the design year 1991, if the Channel Tunnel were not built, were given at the public inquiry held in 1973 as follows:
Maidstone-Ashford 43,000 vpd Ashford-Stanford 42,000 vpd Stanford-Folkestone 40,000 vpd These forecasts are now being reviewed for a design year of 1995 to take account of the Department's latest projections for traffic growth, the revised predictions for 92W the volume of cross-Channel traffic and the distribution of traffic between the M20 and A2-M2 corridors.