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Rush-hour traffic speeds
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• An increase in rush-hour traffic speeds over the past three years may be partly explained by an increase in off-peak freight deliveries.
A survey of English trunk roads shows that morning rushhour speeds have nsen by 2.6mph since 1998; the evening rush-hour average rose by 2.2mph.
A Department of Transport spokeswoman says: "These changes are quite small so it's difficult to be precise as to the cause. But there is some evidence to suggest that there's less traffic in peak periods, particularly among HGVs. Improved management of the road work by the Highways Ager also likely to have had an in The survey shows tha biggest increases were motorways, where ave rush-hour speeds rose some 3mph. Off-peak sp, actually fell on motorways
single-carriageway A-n during the same period rose on deal carriageways. in The first time a similar vey was conducted was in when speeds were gene higher than they are despite the increases reco during the past three years