{"longTitle":"A Bill to place a duty on highway authorities and police forces to minimise congestion and delays caused by collisions and other incidents on the highway; and for connected purposes","summary":"This Bill would extend the Network Management Duty of local highways authorities under the Traffic Management Act 2004.   It would require local highway authorities to: <br><ul><li>Minimise any congestion caused by collisions and other incidents on the highway </li><li>Ensure that such incidents were managed and cleared expeditiously </li><li>Make an annual report of such incidents, including the measures the authority took to mitigate them. </li></ul>","sponsors":[{"member":{"memberId":242,"name":"Mr Christopher Chope","party":"Conservative","partyColour":"0063ba","house":"Commons","memberPhoto":"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/242/Thumbnail","memberPage":"https://members.parliament.uk/member/242/contact","memberFrom":"Christchurch"},"organisation":null,"sortOrder":1}],"promoters":[],"petitioningPeriod":null,"petitionInformation":null,"agent":null,"billId":249,"shortTitle":"Road Traffic (Congestion Reduction) Bill","formerShortTitle":null,"currentHouse":"Commons","originatingHouse":"Commons","lastUpdate":"2008-10-30T19:12:00","billWithdrawn":null,"isDefeated":false,"billTypeId":8,"introducedSessionId":21,"includedSessionIds":[21],"isAct":false,"currentStage":{"id":1213,"stageId":7,"sessionId":21,"description":"2nd reading","abbreviation":"2R","house":"Commons","stageSittings":[{"id":1095,"stageId":7,"billStageId":1213,"billId":249,"date":"2008-06-13T00:00:00"}],"sortOrder":2}}