Delay ban: FTA
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THE THREAT of a night and weekend lorry ban in Greater London will creep closer next week when the Greater London Council discusses its officers' latest plans for a ban.
But it will still be opposed firmly by the Freight Transport Association, whose national council last week reiterated its opposition to the ban and demanded again that the GLC should wait until after the M25 is complete in 1986 before attempting to impose a ban.
By then, it says, future traffic flows will be known. It will also be likely that the GLC will have disappeared by then.
The GLC's proposed exemption package, allowing unspecified lorries access to the general ban area, is still unsatisfactory, according to the FTA. It believes there is too much scope for the GLC, regardless of its political complexion, to make inconsistent decisions about banning or exempting individual categories of vehicles.
And it has reaffirmed its opposition to the GLC's plan to make exemptions for vehicles complying with a lower noise limit.
The GLC has not said what this limit might be, beyond saying it would be higher than the 80dBA level the Government has set for the Nineties. According to the FTA, this should be left to Parliament, lest there be a proliferation of different local noise limits across the country.