Traffic rule details must be given
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• Local authorities should be required to give precise details of the extent of traffic regulation orders when they are formally announced in the press and London Gazette, the Freight Transport Association has told the Ministry of Transport. Failure to give these details will, it is said, mean confusion and increased work for local authorities and everyone else concerned with traffic regulation proposals. With this exception the Association says it is able to accept the draft procedural regulations for Local Authority Traffic Orders which the Ministry proposes to make under the Transport Act.
A close watch on traffic regulations and their effect on the movement of freight is kept by the FTA. This often means examining 300 or more London Gazette announcements a week. Where full details are given further investigation is seldom necessary. If less information is given in future, the PTA will have to make direct contact with a local authority every time it publishes proposals that might affect access, and loading and unloading, etc. Written objections may have to be sent in the majority of cases as a safeguard because there will not be time, within the statutory 21 days, to obtain clarification from the authorities, study the draft notices which will be asked for, and investigate the effect of the proposals where this is necessary.
The facilities to inspect maps and draft notices at town halls or local government offices will be of little value to a national organization because of the huge staff that will have to be employed to travel from town to town to inspect them.