CROSSING CLOSURES • Peter Bottornley, the Minister for Roads and
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Traffic, has announced that a further 568 emergency crossing points on the central reservations of motorways are to be closed.
In an answer to a parliamentary question from Gillian Shepherd MP (Norfolk South West) Bottomley outlined the progress the Department had made in its review of the need for ECPs on motorways. The review followed an M4 crash last September when four people were killed and 74 injured.
According to Bottomley, "Since June 1985, when the Department issued advice on the treatment of gaps in central reserve safety fences, the number of emergency crossing points (ECPs) has been reduced by 20%, from 1,292 to 1,038. Agreement has been reached with the emergency services to close a further 568 ECPs by the end of March 1989, bringing the overall reduction to 63%."