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Mr. Marlow
asked the Secretary of State for Transport what were the volumes of heavy lorry traffic in each direction in each of the last 61 months between (a) junctions 9 and 10 of the M1 and (b) junctions 2 and 3 of the M6; and if he will set out the figures to demonstrate comparisons between the same months in the various years.
Mrs. Chalker
Information for the period January 1978 to November 1981 was given to my hon. Friend in a written reply on Tuesday 16 February.—[Vol. 18, c. 72–4.]The remaining information, combining traffic flows for both directions, is as follows:
| Goods vehicles over 30 cwt unladen weight, 16 hour flows | ||||
| M1 between junctions 9 and 10 | M6 between junctions 2 and 3 | |||
| Flow | Date | Flow | Date | |
| 1977 | ||||
| January | 15,624 | 7 | 10,810 | 21 |
| February | 16,011 | 4 | — | — |
| March | 15,376 | 4 | 11,168 | 18 |
| April | 16,444 | 1 | 12,026 | 22 |
| — | — | 11,387 | 25 | |
| May | 15,230 | 6 | 10,488 | 20 |
| 16,594 | 9 | — | — | |
| June | 12,716 | 10 | 11,237 | 17 |
| July | 14,710 | 8 | 10,645 | 22 |
| August | 12,368 | 5 | 10,581 | 19 |
| September | 15,190 | 2 | 11,865 | 16 |
| October | — | — | 11,992 | 21 |
| November | 15,693 | 4 | 12,464 | 18 |
| December | 17,490 | 2 | 14,001 | 16 |
| 1981 | ||||
| December | 17,242 | 9 | 14,683 | 17 |
| 1982 | ||||
| January | 16,134 | 13 | 14,997 | 21 |
| February | 17,543 | 10 | 15,258 | 18 |