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Highlights of 2002-03
The highlights of the Highways Agency's achievement in 2002-03 are shown grouped under the Department for Transport's Public Service Agreement objectives:
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Improving reliability and easing congestion
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- 98% of lanes available at peak times and 90% of maintenance work done outside of peak hours.
- Completed 10 Targeted Programme of Improvement (TPI) schemes beginning with the A27 Polegate Bypass in June 2002.
- Commenced a programme of 92 junction improvements to reduce congestion and improve safety.
- Announced the preferred tunnelling option for A303 Stonehenge Improvement.
- Launched a 'real time' traffic information website serving the M25 amongst many applications of information technology to provide help to drivers and fleet operators.
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Improving safety
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- Reduced the number of people killed and seriously injured on the network by 555 to 4,436 compared with the 1994-98 average of 4,991, and reduced the slight casualty rate to 21.41 per hundred million vehicle kilometres compared with the 1994-98 average of 22.14.
- Launched the 'Safer Driving through Roadworks' advertising campaign and published Road Workers Safety Guidance to reduce road worker casualties.
