Rural Traffic Management

HC Deb 31 March 1998 vol 309 cc494-5W

40. Mrs. McGuire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on best practice in rural traffic management. [35485]

Dr. Strang

My Department is participating in the Countryside Commission's Countryside Traffic Measures Group, the aim of which is to research and develop good practice guidance on rural traffic management designed with sensitivity to the countryside environment. The Department has commissioned the Transport Research Laboratory to monitor six demonstration schemes being implemented by local authorities who are part of the group; A591 safe cycling zone in Cumbria; Dartmoor signing audit in Devon; Brockenhurst village calming in Hampshire; A149 village calming in Norfolk; Occold 20 mph zone in Suffolk; and Dorking box traffic management in Surrey.