Three-quarters of road journeys 'on time'

Date: 3/6/2011

The majority of Britons using roads and motorways managed by the Highways Agency during the 12 months leading up to April 2011 would have got to their destination on schedule.

Findings from the Department for Transport have revealed that provisionally 78.6 per cent of journeys made on the network during this period were on time.

This shows an improvement of 0.3 per cent since the year ending March 2011.

Meanwhile, during April of this year 85.3 per cent of drivers using the network were on schedule - a four per cent improvement on the same month's figures in 2010.

The data was collected from a variety of sources, including through global positioning systems within vehicles, inductive loops in the surface of the roads and automatic number plate recognition technology in cameras.

In an effort to beat congestion during the May 30th bank holiday, the Highways Agency revealed it had completed or delayed 107 miles of roadworks on its network.

Posted by Mary Treen