Motorways: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 9th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the last major maintenance work was undertaken on (1) the junction of the M6 and the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction, and (2) the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2.


Answered by
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Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 16th September 2015

From Highways England’s records that are readily available,

(1) The last major maintenance work at the junction of the M6 and the A38 (M), known as Spaghetti Junction was undertaken in 1995.

(2) The last major maintenance work at the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was undertaken in 1987.

On the matter of the annual maintenance cost:

The cost of maintaining the motorway junction of the M6 with the A38(M), known as Spaghetti Junction was approximately £8.2m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June2015.

Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.

The cost of maintaining the elevated section of the M5 between junctions 1 and 2 was approximately £2.4m for the 12 month period July 2014 to June 2015.

Costs for earlier periods are not readily available.

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