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(asked on 15th March 2021) - View Source
Questioner
Jim McMahon Portrait
Jim McMahon
(Labour (Co-op) - Oldham West and Royton)

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.

Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 18th March 2021

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


  1. Road Length Statistics on the Strategic Road Network in England

  1. DfT Road Length Statistics on the Strategic Road Network in England

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