HC Deb 30 January 1989 vol 146 cc55-7W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will tabulate in the Official Report the

Summary of radial traffic movements in London

Combined 24 hour flow—thousands of vehicles
Mode 1983 11987 per cent.

change

 per cent.

share
A. Vehicles crossing the London boundary cordon
Buses and coaches 19 16 -16 1
Private cars 1,565 1,705 +9 79
Taxis 6 9 +50 —
Goods vehicles:
light 159 206 +30 10
medium 111 111 0 5
heavy 77 52 -32 2
Motor cycles 46 39 -15 2
Pedal cycles 15 16 +7 1
TOTAL 1,998 2,154 +8 100
B. Vehicles crossing the Inner London cordon
Buses and coaches 35 35 0 2
Private cars 1,535 1,606 +5 75
Taxis 40 40 0 2
Goods vehicles:
light 196 216 +10 10
medium 116 110 -5 5
heavy 40 34 -15 2
Motor cycles 77 58 -25 3
Pedal cycles 31 24 -23 1
TOTAL 22,070 2,123 +3 100
C. Vehicles crossing the Central London cordon
Buses and coaches 39 34 -13 2
Private cars 1,071 1,086 +1 67
Taxis 125 131 +5 8
Goods vehicles:
light 134 173 +29 11
medium 91 90 -1 5
heavy 32 17 -47 1
Motor cycles 81 65 -20 4
Pedal cycles 47 30 -36 2
TOTAL 1,620 1,626 +0.4 100
1 Estimates extrapolated from 1986 survey. See Statistics Bulletin (88) 39—London Traffic Monitoring Report for 1987.
2 Estimates extrapolated from surveys conducted in 1981 and 1984. See Statistics Bulletin (88) 39—London Traffic Monitoring Report for 1987.

The question asks for results expressed in the form of passenger car units. This measurement is used by traffic

number of vehicles of different categories crossing the three London traffic cordons in a combined 24-hour flow for the years 1983 and 1987 together with the total vehicle flow at each cordon in passenger car units for the period together with the percentage change for each category and total as set out in Table 4 of his recent publication "Statement on Transport in London".

Mr. Peter Bottomley

The information on flows in passenger car units is as follows:

Summary of Radial Traffic Movements in London Combined direction 24 hour flows—thousands of passenger car units
1983 1987 per cent.

change
London Boundary cordon 2,133 2,257 +6
Inner London cordon 2,144 2,203 +3
Central London cordon 1,660 1,664 +0.3

The remaining information is set out in table 3 of the "Statement On Transport in London", reproduced as follows:

engineers to express the demands of different vehicle types as a single value, usually in connection with traffic control at signalled junctions.

The following values are commonly used by the transport and road research laboratory to convert other vehicle types to their equivalent in passenger car units.

Passenger car units
Bus or coach 2.0
Private car 1.0
Taxis 1.0
Light goods vehicle 1.0
Medium goods vehicle 1.5
Heavy goods vehicle 2.3
Motor cycle 0.4
Pedal cycle 0.2

Miss Widdecombe

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy to ensure that those advising him on British Rail's preferred route for a new railway line between London and the Channel tunnel do not live on or near any of the routes in question.

Tonnes
STC Division

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 1985 1986 1987
00 Live animals chiefly for foods 44 38 55
01 Meat and meat preparations 441 957 216
02 Dairy products and birds' eggs 117 131 113
03 Fish, crustaceans and molluscs and preparations thereof 70,638 70,807 63,972
04 Cereals and cereal preparations 644,165 307,847 706,142
05 Vegetables and fruit 586 846 374
06 Sugar, sugar preparations and honey 128 103 41
07 Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and manufactures thereof 1,927 1,300 2,135
08 Feedingstuff for animals 1,122 2,260 2,331
09 Miscellaneous edible products 2,410 315 342
Section 0 Food and feed 721,578 384,604 775,721
Total value of these food and feed exports (£ million) 81.516 43.502 54.149