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Big trucks are unlikely to be particularly welcome as delivery vehicles on the Olympic Park, says Gordon Telling, the Freight Transport Association's head of policy for London and the South-East.
He believes it is more likely there will be a consolidation centre modelled on the one in Bermondsey, which is being used for the City of London construction projects. The idea is that materials and supplies are unloaded at the consolidation centre then taken on to their final destination by smaller, more specialist vehicles.
Telling says: The Mayor has said that he wants these to be the greenest games ever and the haulage business is going to have to understand that. What he wants to do is to make it as environmentally acceptable as possible while still creating the business for local hauliers. It will be there for those that can adapt to this vision."
While there is no official confirmation that freight deliveries will be handled through a consolidation centre, ODA officials confirm informally that it is a possibility.
Paul Neal, who as head of Olympic family and service transport will oversee the transportation of people and deliveries to the Olympic Park, says: "Our thinking isn't very advanced but a consolidation centre is one possible framework we could adopt. There are lots of spectators. athletes and media that we have to keep replenished in the Olympic Park, so the logistical framework is certainly not something to be treated lightly."
Neal adds that in the immediate future the ODA will be consulting closely with the logistics industry to see how the Olympic Park can be most efficiently supplied.
If the Olympic site does end up being served by a consolidation centre on the Bermondsey model, either at the construction stage or when completed (or both), it is likely that industry will be quite happy with it. The construction firms involved at the £3.2m pilot scheme at Bermondsey, which include Wilson James, Bovis Lend Lease and Stanhope, have all been happy with it so far (CMJune 8). For them it means fewer lost man hours waiting for deliveries that never arrive and fewer missing goods. For the hauliers it cuts down on the slow, laborious journeys into central London and means far fewer parking tickets.
There are fewer missing goods because it is more difficult to steal from a consolidation centre than a building site. Typically, building sites take far more material than they immediately need and it then sits about in piles for a long time before it is used. In these circumstances a proportion of it tends to go missing.