New provisional figures from the Department for Transport (DfT) have revealed motor vehicle traffic has reached a record high.
In the year ending December 2016, HGV traffic grew by 2.8 per cent overall to 17.1 billion vehicle miles and car traffic increased by 0.7 per cent to a record high of 249.5 billion vehicle miles.
Provisionally, 320.5 billion vehicle miles were travelled on Great Britain’s roads in the year ending December 2016, a figure 1.2 per cent higher than 2015 and two per cent higher than the pre-recession peak in the year ending September 2007.
Estimates suggest A-road traffic showed an increase of 2.0 per cent, mainly on rural A-roads (increase of 2.5 per cent to 93.6 billion vehicle miles), while traffic on urban A-roads increased by a smaller degree (up 1.1 per cent to 50.2 billion vehicle miles).
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