Thursday 8th November 2007

Road stats released

New stats show car traffic decreased. Slightly.

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A motorway, today.

There is no easy way to make road traffic statistics in Britain sexy, so we aren’t even going to try.

The Department of Transport today released the stats for the third quarter of 2007 and they show that car traffic decreased by 1% and light van traffic went up by 12%.

Average vehicle delay on the slowest 10% of journeys rose from 3.78 to 4.16 minutes per 10 miles.

The average journey time on these journeys rose from 13.4 to 13.8 minutes per 10 miles.

It also looks like drivers are trying to avoid motorways and find sneakier routes to work.

Traffic on motorways has fallen by 1% whereas traffic on minor urban roads and rural A roads rose by 6 per cent and 1 per cent respectively.

Goods vehicle traffic increased by 3%.

If you want to know more about the Statistics Bulletin Traffic in Great Britain - 3rd Quarter 2007, it is available at: http://www.dft.gov.uk/transtat/roadtraff

[Timayyyy]

I'm not traipsing round that site...just tells me i'm still going to be confused at the end of it so i'll just say i believe it......but there does seem to be a lot more 'tat lorrys' on the roads over these last couple of years....

[Cliffv8]

TIMMAAH!!!! yes there does, wish they'd get shot of the bloody 56 mph limiters, just maybe a truck could overtake in under three weeks

Edited by Cliffv8 on Thursday 8th November 17:33

[flattotheboards]

anybody worked out which motorway is shown in the picture and what junction it is for ultimate anorak points?

[Dimski]

I would be fuming with the chap in the outside lane, look at the queue behind him!!!

I am getting an M6 vibe from it, I am sure its a bit I have seen regularly...

[alphadog]

M6 J35...?

I'll get me anorak

[Vipers]

God knows what this rubbish survey cost to tell us bugger all, really....... do you notice the 1 percent whatsit?

[SteveyD]

Nice to see a justification to the rise of motoring costs, now that i know all this info...... wtf am I supposed to do with it?

Im sure the money could be better spent on things such as IMPROVING THE ROADS?

[jas16]

i would like to see more proposals of using railway system for transporting goods and encouraging to make as many goodas as possible in the uk

[Vaux]

Nice rolling road block going on.

[dean8718]

The number of cars on the road is always going to be going up. If you think of all the people you know how many are learning to drive and / or getting a car and how many are giving it up. The traffic will increase as the populaion does.