Motorways

Norman Baker
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many motorway inter-junction links there are on (a) motorways and (b) dual carriageways in England.

Chris Mole
The Strategic Road Network in England is made up of the national motorway and All Purpose Trunk Road (APTR) network. It has (a) 1,056 junction to junction motorway links; and (b) 939 major dual carriageway junction to junction links on APTR. There are also 464 major single carriageway junction to junction APTR links.

Each link is for a single direction only, and for APTRs there may be additional minor junctions within links.