rraffic Iransfer
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;HWAYS and traffic management responsibilities may soon ransferred to England's larger district councils.
eeretary of State for Environment Peter Shore has said that :he larger districts in non-metropolitan authority areas are Dived already in highways and traffic management work on igency basis, there is justification for their being allowed to rcise powers in their own right.
!ounty councils had to look at such matters on a broader le, but the authority closest to the public is often in closer ch with detailed local needs.
Lssociation of District Councils chairman Sir Duncan Lock welcomed the proposals and says he is "encouraged" by the rernment's recognition of the role of district councils in the Li of highways and traffic management.
'he nine largest former county boroughs in non-metropolitan as are Bristol, Derby, Hull, Leicester, Nottingham, Plymouth, tsmouth, Southampton, and Stoke-on-Trent.