§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list those stretches of road, including292W bridges, classified as orange and red for congestion in 1995 for each region which have residual life of (a) nought years and (b) nought to four years; and if he will specify the maintenance planned for those stretches of road. [20136]
§ Mr. WattsThe residual life of the road network is held on a database comprising some 20,000 discrete sections designed to permit efficient computer analysis. The sections of the network covering the congestion maps and the residual life bands specified in the question are likely to number some 2,000 reference sections which could be identified and interpreted to provide a meaningful answer only at disproportionate cost.
The Highways Agency's plans for future maintenance of the trunk road network have not yet been finalised.