Now York looks set for a lorry cordon
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NORTH Yorkshire County Council is to meet environmental groups and amenity campaigners to discuss a prOposed heavy vehicles ban in York. The ban, which would affect the Humberside to Teesside route via York, was recommended by a sub-committee.
County council leader Edward Denison revealed that both the Road Haulage Association and the Chemical Industries Association had declined to give their views on the ban, and told CM that imposing a ban would merely push the problem of heavy lorries off their patch and on to someone else's.
The sub-committee had been warned by both police and traffic engineers that a traffic ban that diverted heavy lorries as far north as Thirsk would be almost impossible to enforce.
Now the council is to meet with groups demanding the imposition of the ban on September 14 before it makes its final decision. Already county surveyor Col Gerald Leech has appealed to them to come up with constructive suggestions.
The groups will be allowed to make written submissions and answer questions and Col Leech told them: "Don't tell us what we already know — the problem exists."
Assistant county surveyor Keith Roberts has warned the county that if the ban comes into effect, drivers of heavy vehicles will probably find "rat runs" around the edge of the City of York if they were turned away near the city boundary.