§ Mr. Fryasked the Secretary of State for Transport whether he will initiate a comprehensive study to investigate the extent to which traffic exceeds the design capacities of inter—urban trunk roads.
§ Mr. William RodgersNo.
§ Mr. Fryasked the Secretary of State for Transport what evidence has been submitted to the Leitch Committee on Trunk Road Assessment concerning those roads which are carrying traffic in excess of their design capacities.
§ Mr. William RodgersNone by my Department. The committee is looking at 573W the methods of appraisal and traffic forecasting applied to the trunk road programme as a whole. It has not been asked to consider individual roads.