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York cures cordon blues

20th June 1981, Page 7
20th June 1981
Page 7
Page 7, 20th June 1981 — York cures cordon blues
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THE YORK CORDON died, or at least passed into a deep coma last week, when North Yorkshire County Council's Highways and transportation committee agreed to take no further action on the plan.

The cordon proposal (CM, March 15, 1980) was for a three-ton limit on lorries operating within a 300 square mile area around York city, but objections from most neighbouring councils, as well as the Road Haulage Association and the Freight Transport Association, forced North Yorkshire to reconsider the proposal.

The county surveyor's department recommended to the committee last week that there was no value in erecting any advisory signs around York, as the Department of Transport found that, in other areas, this has been a failure.

A spokesman for the county surveyor told CM that this was accepted, subject to all new members of the county council being circulated with details of the saga since it began in 1979. This leaves an outside chance of the scheme being revived at a later date.


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