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Sussex plans to cut town centre trucks
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AN EXPERIMENTAL freight consolidation scheme to reduce town centre lorry traffic is to be launched in West Sussex.
The idea, contained in the county's 10-year transport plan, follows the successful launch of a similar scheme in Bristo118 months ago.
West Sussex says the pilot project will determine if consolidation centres would reduce congestion, pollution and damage to kerbs, pavements and property.
Spokesman Nigel Galloway says: "Towns like Chichester have narrow streets and a conservation area. We use quite high quality paving in the centre. If we do something to limit HGV traffic it would cut back on the costs of replacing paving."
But Mark Duggan.MD of Craw ley-based pallet and parcels distribution company Eezehaul,sars the county lacks towns big enough to make the idea viable: "I am environmentally conscious but I can't see it. working in somewhere like Chichester because there's not enough volume going through."
Duggan adds that Crawley, probably the county's biggest town. has relatively good access because it is a new town.
"Congestion there isn't caused by deliveries but by people who live there trying to get to work at Gatwick Airport," he explains, The Bristol scheme is run by Exel for 50 retailers based in the city's Broadinead shopping centre. Exc.] says it has reduced lorry traffic to and from the shops by twothirds.