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Row loom heavy Ion wer ban
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AN INTER-county heavy goods vehicle legal wrangle looks like being on the cards following plans by a West Yorkshire County Council committee decision to ban all traffic over 16 tons unladen weight from sections of the Leeds-Wetherby road (A58).
The council's Transportation and Engineering committee, which has Department of Transport backing, wants the ban on traffic which, it claims, is using the road as a short cut from the Al, MI and M62 to the North and Merseyside.
The plan, if implemented, will mean that a half-mile stretch of road, four miles north of Leeds will be closed to heavy traffic and a stretch of the road south-west of Wetherby will be closed to all southbound traffic --except vehicles making local calls.
But the council is likely to hit trouble as soon as the six months' experiment involving the closures comes into force in the autumn.
For North Yorkshire County Council's Highways Committee chairman Councillor John Jamieson told CM this week: "Just as soon as this scheme starts, we will move into action and do everything we can to get it scrapped.
"Bringing in restrictions like this will mean that a host of villages in North Yorkshire will be hit by traffic having tc take alternative routes and WE will not stand for it. We are no going to be saddled with th( problems of West Yorkshire."' And North Yorkshire ap pears to have the backing o the Road Haulage Association Area Secretary Kenneth HOWE said: "It's true. If these restrictions do come in ther most villages and towns ir North Yorkshire will suffei from even more traffic than al present." It was learned this week that a decision is imminent on the proposed KirkhamgateDishforth route, initially planned as a motorway. If the road is given the green light then West Yorkshire County Council's traffic headache could be over. Four routes have been pencilled in for the road, but plans for a motorway are thought to have been turned round. The road could be a simple single or dual carriageway instead.