Speeches

Gareth Johnson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gareth Johnson on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of what the average journey time southbound between junction 30 and junction 2 on the M25, between the hours of (a) 6am to 9am, (b) 11am to 2pm and (c) 4pm to 7pm in each of the last six months.

Andrew Jones

Average journey time data between J3 and J30 travelling northbound and between J30 – J2 southbound on the M25 is not available. Highways England measures average journey times between J2 – J30 northbound and between J29 – J1B southbound on the M25. Average monthly journey times between July and December 2015 for the morning peak, inter-peak and evening peak periods are set out in the table below. All of these average monthly journey times are quicker than comparable data for journeys prior to the introduction of Dart Charge in November 2014.

Month

Time

Northbound J2 – J30

Southbound J29 – J1B

July*

6am – 9am

10:13

12:12

11am – 2pm

15:23

12:17

4pm – 7pm

16:52

12:51

August

6am – 9am

09:22

10:43

11am – 2pm

18:27

12:01

4pm – 7pm

18:34

10:55

September

6am – 9am

09:48

11:55

11am – 2pm

11:11

10:49

4pm – 7pm

15:26

11:32

October

6am – 9am

10:58

12:00

11am – 2pm

13:25

11:27

4pm – 7pm

15:33

13:17

November

6am – 9am

11:42

12:15

11am – 2pm

10:40

11:55

4pm – 7pm

18:23

13:14

December**

6am – 9am

10:53

12:40

11am – 2pm

12:26

11:18

4pm – 7pm

22:41

17:04

* Speed limit increase on 27th July.

** The technology used to monitor journey times at Junction 1B became faulty in the southbound direction on 5 December. This means southbound December data is for 01/12/15 to 05/12/15

All of these average monthly journey times are quicker than comparable data for journeys prior to the introduction of Dart Charge in November 2014.