T.R.T.A. Request
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A REQUEST that local authorities i't should not be given unqualified powers to introduce experimental bans on commercial vehicles stopping to load and unload is being made by the Traders Road Transport Association.
The question, states the association, has been given considerable urgency by a Government announcement that a clause is to be introduced into the Road Traffic Bill permitting municipal bodies outside London to make experimental traffic orders "without having to go through the whole drill appropriate to permanent orders."
The association accepts the need for traffic experiments, but says that there is great concern over the potential harm which could be done to supplies and collections in busy shopping and commercial centres if such prohibitions could be imposed on lorries and vans.