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Amendments 117A to 117G relate to the duty to report on traffic levels. Any duty to make reports on traffic should be accompanied by meaningful powers to affect such reports directly. That is why, elsewhere in Schedule 9, in line with the transfer of duty to make reports on key network roads, mayors of combined and combined county authorities are given a power to direct highway authorities in the use of their powers on such roads. These amendments would give combined and combined county authorities a duty to make reports on traffic but without any direct control of the traffic itself.