§ Lord Berkeleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will publish in the Official Report, for each red route scheme, the average speed before and after implementation of each scheme of:
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- (a) all traffic
- (b) buses; and
Whether they will publish in the Official Report, for each red route scheme, changes in traffic volumes from before and after the implementation of the scheme. [HL3403]
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Lord Whitty)The information is not available in the form requested. Monitoring the operation of the red route network is the responsibility of the Traffic Director for London, who was established under the Road Traffic Act 1991 to oversee the development and introduction of the red route initiative, which seeks to improve the operation of London's main roads. He has a duty under the Act to monitor the operation of the 320 miles of red route which the Secretary of State for Transport has designated. The monitoring seeks to identify statistically reliable network-wide changes in conditions arising from the introduction of the new measures; this is not undertaken on a link by link basis. The director annually publishes two reports,Retail Monitoring and Traffic Monitoring, copies of which have been placed in the Library.