§ Rear-Admiral Morgan-Gilesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will publish the statistics of accidents which have occurred on the Winchester Bypass between Popham and Compton during the last five years.
§ Mr. MarksThe information is as follows:
1971 … … … 78 1972 … … … 83 1973 … … … 86 1974 … … … 57 1975 … … … 61
§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment why it has been necessary recently to install traffic lights on the Winchester Bypass.
§ Mr. MarksTraffic signals have been installed at the junction of the Winchester Bypass with Easton Lane to reduce accidents. Twenty-one injury accidents, two of them fatal, occurred in the three years to 31st December 1975 at this location.
§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the estimated flow of traffic for which the Winchester Bypass was originally designed; and how much traffic it is now carrying.
§ Mr. MarksThe Winchester Bypass was originally designed with dual 20 ft. wide carriageways which, by the design standards of the time, were provided for traffic flows of between 4,000 and 9,000 vehicles a day. The average 16-hour day flow on the Winchester Bypass in June 1976 was 35,000.