Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of road in England are (a) conventional motorways, (b) controlled motorways, (c) dynamic hard shoulder, (d) all-lane running and (e) strategic road network.
The latest complete figures available for motorway road classes are shown in the table below. These figures have been compiled using the different data sources which have been outlined in the footnotes for the table:
Road Class | 2019[1] |
a) Conventional Motorway | 1,564 |
b) Controlled Motorway | 141 |
c) Dynamic Hard Shoulder | 63 |
d) All Lane Running | 141 |
e) Total SRN [2] | 4,519 |
Source: Highways England scheme information and DfT