Oral question asked in the House of Lords, by Lord Cobbold (Crossbench). It was answered by Lord Davies of Oldham (Labour) on Wednesday, 18 October 2006.

Roads: Congestion

Question: Whether their current highways investment programme addresses the problems of congestion on the M25 and other major highways.

Answer: My Lords, we are delivering a range of measures to tackle congestion across the whole of the motorway network, including a significant programme of motorway widening, better management of the network through the introduction of Highways Agency traffic officers, and the use of national and regional control centres. We are trialling new measures to make best use of motorway capacity. We are also exploring the scope for developing a national system of road pricing.

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