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Forty foot ban in central London
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starts Monday by CM reporter
• As from Monday vehicles in excess of 4011 in length will be banned by the Greater London Council from six square miles of central London. The area affected by the ban is bounded by Marylebone Road and Euston Road in the north, the Thames in the south, Park Lane, Grosvenor Place and Vauxhall Bridge in the west and Kings Cross Road, Farringdon Road and Farringdon Street in the east. These roads are excluded from the ban.
The GLC's action follows a 24-hour survey which, says the Council, 'showed more than 2000 vehicles of 4011 or more roaring through central London — 629 of them along Piccadilly and 626 along Parliament Square, Westminster".
A spokesman for the GLC said that 85 per cent of the vehicles did not need to be in central London. He also said that all of the 2000 vehicles had been stopped and the drivers were asked their destination. The ban does not apply to vehicles collecting or delivering within the area. According to Mrs Evelyn Denington, chairman of the GLC Transport Committee, this is the first step in a programme to bar heavy goods vehicles which use London's streets simply "as a short cut". "Next, and more important, we shall be extending the ban to cover areas of inner London where hundreds of thousands of families live," she said, "perhaps the entire area inside the North Circular Road and the route of the South Circular Road through Richmond, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, and Greenwich." Mrs Denington said: "If we had an orbital road around the outside of London, we could keep through-traffic out of the area entirely."
The spokesman for the GLC thought that both police officers and traffic wardens would be used to enforce the law but Scotland Yard told CM that the enforcement would be undertaken by police officers alone, and he said that artics, drawbars, trailers or vehicles with rear-projecting loads would be what the officers were looking for.
Vehicles will be stopped if their appearance suggests to the officer that they are over length. They will then be measured. Vehicles carrying the long vehicle marker board indicating their length to be in excess of 13 metres would appear to be particularly vulnerable to investigation and indeed vehicles indicating that they are in excees of 11 metres are likely to be subjected to further scrutiny. Breach of the regulation can lead to a fine of up to £50. While the law may have an effect on the passage of maximum capacity artics in central London, eight-wheel rigids with a carrying capacity of 20 tons will not be banned from the area. These vehicles have a maximum gvw of 30 tons.
The GLC said that pamphlets explaining the law and showing the boundaries of the "black" area had been sent to a number Of operators. The spokesman was unable to say how the list of these operators had been compiled. The spokesman stressed, however, that the law applied to vehicles and their loads. This means that any overhang is contained in the 4011 measurement.