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FINAL ATTACK ON WINDSOR CORDON
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THE FREIGHT Transport Association has lodged a last-minute objection to Berkshire County Council's Windsor Cordon lorry restriction which starts on Monday, June 12.
The FTA describes the scheme — brought into effect in response to the 1973 Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Controls and Regulations) Act — as a "typical I'm-alright-Jack control measure" which will drive lorries to equally sensitive routes.
It will prohibit vehicles of over five tons from using short lengths of all routes which cross a line from south of Windsor from the M4 at Datchet to the M4 at Paley Street. The ban covers a 40 square mile area. Certain agricultural vehicles, tankers, breakdown vehicles, and ready-mixed concrete lorries will be exempt from the restrictions, and operators have been asked to apply to the county council for exemption permits.
The FTA has appealed to Transport Minister William Rodgers, saying that no clear justification has been put forward for the scheme.
The FTA believes that the development of Winkfield Road as a bypass route to avoid the centre of Windsor is an adequate measure until the M25 London orbital motorway is built. "There is no better, alternative route," says the FTA.
It criticises the attitude of Berkshire Council as a scheme at Streatley has still to be analysed. The Transport and Road Research Laboratory is at present preparing a report on the Streatley scheme.
Amongst other objectors to the cordon has been the Thames Valley Owner Drivers' Association.