Accredited official statistics

Congestion on local ‘A’ roads, England: April to June 2014

Congestion on local ‘A’ roads statistics in England between April to June 2014.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 14 August 2014

Documents

Congestion on local ‘A’ roads, England: April to June 2014 report

PDF, 906 KB

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email webmasterdft@dft.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Congestion on local ‘A’ roads, England: April to June 2014 data tables

2.42 MB

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email webmasterdft@dft.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

In the year ending to June 2014, average speeds on local ‘A’ roads in England during the weekday morning peak were 24.4 mph. This is a 0.9% decrease on the year ending March 2014

For individual months, April to June 2014, average speeds on local ‘A’ roads in England were slower in April, May and June 2014, with decreases of 1.5%, 4.0% and 3.6% respectively, compared to the same months in 2013

Over the longer term a combination of increases in traffic on the ‘A’ road network and increased levels of rainfall is likely to have contributed to the fall in speeds observed between March 2012 and June 2014.

Contact us

Road congestion and travel times

Email congestion.stats@dft.gov.uk

Media enquiries 0300 7777 878

Published 14 August 2014