§ Mr. Robert Atkinsasked the Secretary of State for Transport on how many days during 1981, 1982 and so far in 1983 the three lanes of the M6 North and South have been fully open.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe Department does not keep records in a form which would provide this information. As parts of the M6 were built more than 20 years ago, much maintenance work is now required and involves frequent lane closures during the better weather; the major works are however being undertaken in a carefully phased programme.
§ Mr. Robert Atkinsasked the Secretary of State for Transport what work was being done on the M1 north of Toddington on Friday 8 July that necessitated the coning of one lane of the motorway for some distance with no apparent activity on the part of road construction workers.
§ Mrs ChalkerThere were closures of the nearside lane of the southbound carriageway near Toddington on both Thursday 7 July and Friday 8 July. On 7 July, the closure from 10.30 am to 4.15 pm was to enable he police to search the central reservation as part of a murder hunt. On 8 July a length was coned off at 9 pm to enable remedial work on displaced catseyes to be carried out. The cones were removed at 4 am the following morning after the work had been completed. Similar work is being carried out on the adjacent northbound carriageway during the night of 15–16 July.