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AL GOVERNMENT plans to introe traffic controls are causing concern, there is a glimmer of hope in the ,st move in the York Cordon case. In er cases the FTA is to/fight the proals.
he York scheme was referred back to study sub-committee at a meeting t Friday of the North Yorkshire mty Council's Highways and Transtation Committee.
he sheer size of the proposed Cordon taking it even more controversial than notorious Windsor Cordon. If the eme is adopted, a 300 square mile area und York will have a three-ton Una weight limit.
,ut this has brought objections from ghbouring authorities such as Humside, Cleveland and West Yorkshire, fear that a cordon of these dimenis will rebound on them and cause To problems in their areas.
:esponding to the news that the plan been referred back for further study Freight Transport Association said it ; "delighted". "Although we are not 'ping the gun, it is at least a step in the it direction".
lowever, other bans are in the pipeline look like sticking. Hertfordshire inty Council is likely to follow Berk'e County Council and impose a ban in Albans either by diverting traffic or imposing a permit system. Either scheme will affect operators, but the worst hit is likely to be Cadbury Schweppes who occupy a production plant in Grosvenor Road.
Any St Albans move will undoubtedly be the subject of an FTA appeal similar to that against the Windsor Cordon which will be heard in June by Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls.
Even without supporting evidence for the necessity of a ban, Devon County Council is proposing a zonal lorry ban in Kingsteignton. This has been challenged by FTA which claims that the Council recomendation that vehicles should always use the direct route between premises and the restricted zone is impossible to operate or enforce.
In Norwich the plan is to ban vehicles over ten metres in White Lion Street between 8arn and 8pm. This is being studied by FTA which is also concerned by the Canterbury Cordon proposals.
This scheme is now developing and will pedestrianise most of Canterbury between 10am and 4pm on weekdays. Even then entry will be for access only outside these hours.
The Canterbury ring road is already heavily congested with Dover-bound traffic, but a ring road extension should bring relief in the next few years.