DTp 'dictators': GLC
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THE GLC has condemned Department of Transport plans to set the Government up as "a dictator of London's road network." it believes Londoners will have less influence over the city's traffic in the future.
Paul Moore, vice chair of the GLC's transport committee said his comments were in response to a Government consultation paper entitled Reallocation of transport responsibilities in London following abolition of the GLC.
The GLC claims that the paper reveals plans to get more cars and lorries into the capital by widening roads, restricting pedestrian facilities and by increasing traffic management measures, like one-way streets.
The Government has already announced that 70 miles of road would be trunked — that is taken over directly by the DTp as an extension of the current trunk road network.
The DTp told CM that it will be trunking and taking over about 200 miles of key routes and transferring the running of about 300 miles to the boroug hs.
The DTp wishes to plan strategically the traffic flowing through London and control the key routes on a "panoramic basis" under one authority, after the GLC is abolished in 1986. A spokesman claimed that its aim is to keep traffic out of London which does not need to travel through it, and to aid an easy flow for traffic which does.