Bath

Don Foster

  • Liberal Democrat MP
  • Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, Culture, Media & Sport.
  • Majority of 4,638.
  • Signed 6 Transport EDMs in this session.
  • Used transport-related words in debates 1,056 times since May 2001.

Written Questions to DfT

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport… (472 since May 2001)

  • what the budget of her Department's Rail Group was in each of the last five years. (22/7/2008)
  • what the staffing costs of her Department's Rail Group were in each of the last five years. (22/7/2008)
  • how many full-time equivalent members of staff (a) her Department and (b) public bodies her Department is responsible for employ on tasks related to the railway; how many of those work on (i) project management, (ii) project oversight and (iii) financial oversight; and what plans she has for future staffing. (22/7/2008)
  • how many (a) Ministers and (b) officials from her Department plan to attend the Beijing Olympic Games; to what purpose in each case; and what estimate she has made of the cost. (18/6/2008)
  • when the National Parking Adjudication Service will have in place the appeals process relating to bus lane and tramway enforcement in England outside London; and if he will make a statement. (24/4/2006)

Roads

  • 0 miles of motorway
  • 32 miles of A-road
  • 3 miles of B-road
  • 156 miles of minor roads

Unleaded prices

  • Highest: 109.9p (Texaco, Wellsway & others)
  • Median: 108.7p
  • Lowest: 104p (Sainsburys, Lower Bristol Road)
5th most congested
145th most accidents
412th highest fuel price

Recent incidents

  • A46 both ways blocked due to accident between Gloucester Road and A4 London Road West / London Road West (7:38pm, 13/8/2008)
  • A36 Rossiter Road both ways closed, slow traffic due to serious accident between Lyncombe Hill and Archway Street (5:59pm, 8/8/2008)
  • Just passable and slow traffic due to accident on B3110 Midford Road Westbound between Old Midford Road and Old Midford Road (11:57am, 27/7/2008)
  • Reports of A4 both ways blocked, slow traffic due to accident at A363 Bradford Road / London Road East (1:29pm, 20/6/2008)
  • Accident and accident investigation work on A4 London Road both ways between Snow Hill and A363 Bradford Road / London Road East (7:45pm, 10/6/2008)
  • A36 Lower Bristol Road blocked, traffic congestion due to fallen tree and accident at A3604 Windsor Bridge Road (8:48pm, 24/5/2008)
  • A46 both ways closed due to gas leak between A4 London Road West / London Road West and Gloucester Road (9:27pm, 7/5/2008)
  • Slow traffic due to broken down lorry on A4 London Road West both ways between A46 / London Road West (Batheaston Roundabout) and Gloucester Road (8:04am, 22/4/2008)
  • A36 Cleveland Bridge outbound busy but moving from St John's Road to A4 London Road (4:06pm, 14/4/2008)
  • Very slow traffic on A4 London Road outbound at A36 Bathwick Street (5:07pm, 11/4/2008)