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Costs rise with jams
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• The cost of traffic congestion in Britain's urban areas has reached 23 million a year in wasted time and vehicle operating costs, says the British Roads Federation.
Greater London jams costs road users 21.4 billion a year, and account for 45% of all time wasted in jams in Britain's urban areas. Traffic congestion in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester costs as much as 2500 million each a year.
The BRF is calling for a new initiative from the Department of Transport to tackle the increasing problem of congestion. It says: "The latest figures show traffic growing at 13% a year. Providing the necessary roads will cost less than the rising costs of congestion that inaction will cause.
With car ownership in Britain relatively low in comparison with Western Europe and North America, we can only expect our traffic to increase and the problem to worsen," warns the BRF.
A study into London's trunk roads, commissioned by the Department of Transport, has pinpointed the A4/A406/A205 Chiswick roundabout as the worst trouble spot.
Leytonstone High Street in Waltham Forest comes second in the traffic jam league followed by A406/A10 Harrow Road in Brent, in the "Dotmap" study which looks at traffic delays, accident rates and poor environmental conditions.
Of the top 20 worst junctions, only two had no work planned on them for the future — but one of them is Chiswick roundabout.