Campaign to improve A38 junctions discussed by MP Pauline Latham and Transport Minister Stephen Hammond
MID DERBYSHIRE MP Pauline Latham has met the Minister for Transport to campaign for improvements on the city's A38 junctions.
Mrs Latham was joined at the meeting yesterday with Stephen Hammond by representatives from both Derby City and Derbyshire County councils. She said Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin also came into the meeting.
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MP Pauline Latham
She said the purpose of the meeting was to outline proposals – including the introduction of flyovers at some of the junctions – to Mr Hammond which would address safety issues and keep traffic moving, in the hope he would consider them in his future funding commitments.
Mrs Latham explained how the A38 was the major route for traffic between the East and West Midlands, bringing drivers from Birmingham to Derby and to the M1 at junction 28.
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She said it carried about 42,000 vehicles through Derby each day, with one in seven vehicles being a HGV.
And she explained how a survey of traffic movements – undertaken as part of the A38 Junction Study – recorded about 20% of traffic on the A38, between the junctions at Kingsway and Abbey Hill Junction, was through traffic.
Mrs Latham also said surveys undertaken as part of the re-evaluation of the junctions recorded severe delays at the roundabouts at Markeaton and Abbey Hill of more than 16 minutes at peak times and tailbacks of 2.6 miles on the approach to Abbey Hill and 1.4 miles to Markeaton.
Mrs Latham said: "I am very encouraged by the minister's reaction at the meeting and I am grateful to him for taking the time to meet with us on this very important transport issue."
9 Comments
by bob_dcfc
Thursday, January 31 2013, 1:10PM
“about time this is well overdue the study was done years ago don't know why the heels are being dragged, flyovers are the future!”
by Fasty
Thursday, January 31 2013, 12:50PM
“Yes, and my gas bill money comes from a different place to my electricity bill money.
And it's nonsenSe ;-)”
by Pagenotfound
Thursday, January 31 2013, 12:31PM
“Fasty
The money would also come from a completely different place, and is the responsibility of a different organisation, your comment is therefore completely nonsence”
by Fasty
Thursday, January 31 2013, 12:14PM
“Improving the junctions even at huge cost would benefit more people than a velodrome”
by Wafty
Thursday, January 31 2013, 12:12PM
“perhaps the city's two MPs could also get involved in the lobbying? - oh no, sorry, Margaret is asleep after working out her expenses claims and Chris is too busy following Millipede around like a love-struck puppy......”
by roberttaggart
Thursday, January 31 2013, 11:28AM
“All junctions on such 'main roads' should be grade separated interchanges - as standard - period.”
by dianae
Thursday, January 31 2013, 11:11AM
“Hammond - unfortunate surname for transport job. There is Richard who crashes high speed cars on TV for a living and Phillip who should have sorted out a level palying field for Bombardier but trusted to civil servants who were in process of messing up the Virgin franchise (though he had managed to leave before matter hit the headlines)
Stephen Hammond is a banker - fund management is his game. Can't we have someone who understands how to help the economy rather than someone involved in a business that did its best to bankrupt us?”
by dianae
Thursday, January 31 2013, 11:06AM
“And if the A38 gets flyovers then the disruption during building will be way worse than the present slow moving "car park" caused by the inner ring road upgrade.
And once the flyovers were built at huge cost, traffic would not be waiting the 14 minutes - the situation would be improved. Improved for a few months and then the software used by logistics companies would route more through traffic along the A38 and the improvement would start to disappear.”
by ArmyOfDaves
Thursday, January 31 2013, 9:40AM
“Im glad to see Mrs Latham raising this issue with Stephen Hammond and hope that finally we can have the flyovers the A38 desperately needs.”