High Speed 2 Railway Line

(asked on 7th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2017 to Question 116560, what estimate his Department has made of the volume of HS2 construction vehicles in each local authority area along the Phase One route.


Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 14th December 2017

The estimate of the volume of HS2 construction vehicles travelling in each local authority area was derived from data in the Phase One Environmental Statement. The figures used for the purpose of determining the relative allocations from the HS2 Road Safety Fund are as follows:

Local Authority

Total estimated number of HGV trips on the road network

Camden

337240

Westminster

216489

Ealing

140013

Hillingdon

89794

Hertfordshire

161911

Buckinghamshire

548834

Slough

47326

Oxfordshire

158498

Northamptonshire

229257

Warwickshire

1118266

Solihull

338526

Birmingham

369686

Staffordshire

413034

Total

4168874

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