questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending legislation to enable local transport authorities to divert traffic onto national highways where (a) local and (b) network conditions make it (i)
answerText: The Department has made no such assessment. Local authorities are responsible for managing traffic on their networks, and National Highways for managing the Strategic Road Network of motorways and trunk roads. Both are subject to the Network Management Du...
heading: Motorways: Road Traffic Control