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Glasgow Bans Would Upset Deliveries

12th July 1963, Page 11
12th July 1963
Page 11
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THEScottish Division of the Traders Road Transport Association is urgently considering Glasgow Corporation's projected experimental scheme for controlling traffic in the centre of the city (see The Commercial Motor, June 21), and the Association's traffic manager, Mr. W. Clarke, has carried out a preliminary inspection of the area affected.

So far. sufficient evidence is available to indicate there would be serious disturbance of deliveries to shops, restaurants and business premises if the experiment is tried out as at present conceived. It is hoped that consultations between T.R.T.A. and the Corporation could lead to the scheme being amended in order to cut down interference with supplies to a minimum.

Glasgow's experiment is one of the first, and certainly one of the biggest envisaged since new powers to launch experiments were provided for local authorities under the Road Traffic Act of 1962. At the time T.R.T.A. pressed strongly for safeguards for commercialvehicle operators in schemes which involved loading bans, and the present

machinery allows, if necessary, for the Minister of Transport or the Secretary of State for Scotland to he called upon to give his approval to plans which aim to prohibit goods vehicles from stopping.

Revised C-licence Figures THE Ministry of Transport is to revise the basis for compiling statistics relating to C-licensed vehicles and operators. For some time, views have been stated that these statistics were liable to cumulative errors. This was admitted on Tuesday by the Ministry, which further stated that it has suspected for some time that figures relating to small C vehicles were overstated and those relating to larger ones understated.

By the end of this year new figures will be available on vehicles of three tons unladen weight and over. There are some lm. vehicles below that weight, and in future their totals will be compiled by subtraction of the number of Aand 13-licensed light vehicles (records for which were overhauled last year) from the known total.


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