Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 51055

Road Traffic: Noise

Tabled: 8 May 2025
Answered: 15 May 2025

Question

Brian Mathew

Liberal DemocratMelksham and Devizes

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of levels of car use on (a) congestion and (b) road noise.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
The Department periodically publishes the national road traffic projections. The most recent being the National Road Traffic Projections 2022. This includes a measure of congestion expressed as lost time per mile, per vehicle in seconds. This is split by ...

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