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'Mayor' Norris plans daytime truck curfew
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• by Dominic Perry Steven Norris, Conservative candidate for the London Mayoral elections, has said that he will introduce a daytime delivery curfew if he wins next May's ballot.
Norris, a former chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, also hinted that he would consider scrapping the deeply unpopular London Lorry Ban and introducing load consolidation centres to boost the efficiency of deliveries to the food and retail sectors, lie has also promised to scrap the congestion charge. Speaking exclusively to CM, Norris expanded on his plans for the capital. He says: "I've always said that we need to rationalise freight delivery so that we don't restrict commerce but do, wherever possible, keep freight traffic away from peak-time passenger traffic.
"This would mean looking again at the LLB— which I have always considered a huge burden whose objectives could be achieved with a great deal less bureaucracy."
He describes an outright delivery ban between lam and 10am as '"a more rational use of road space", but promises extensive consultation before any scheme is introduced.
"The present situation is unsustainable— there's something vaguely mad about drivers having to wait at South Mimms or Clackett Lane [services] until the traffic builds up, then when it reaches its peak we allow the freight in."
Additionally, Norris says that he will actively pursue the idea of load consolidation, where hauliers deliver into consolidation centres and loads would be sorted onto one vehicle to deliver to multiple retailers in the same area, which would cut down on vehicle traffic. The scheme is already in place at Heathrow airport, where the Exel-run operation has slashed vehicle movements by 70%.