Truck ban threat in North Yorkshire • Speeding drivers hell-bent
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on winning financial bonuses from their bosses are using a group of North Yorkshire villages as rat-runs en route to Teesside, says a local parish councillor.
However, Percy Featherstone, chairman of Coxwold Parish Council, says the days of up to 50 vehicles a day rolling through villages including Ampleforth and Newburgh are numbered after North Yorkshire County Council agreed to consider a lorry ban.
Featherstone says these vehicles should be using the A19 trunk road. He wants a 7.5tonne limit on vehicles because of environmental damage and safety fears. Last year an artic demolished two benches outside a local pub, he says.
Graham Cressey, traffic manager at North Yorkshire County Council, met Featherstone last week and says a two-month survey will investigate lorry movements and speeds.
A similar proposal for a ban was rejected by the council three years ago because of the "small number of vehicles travelling through the area".