Brake on traffic fatal to West Country
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• To interfere with the free movement a road traffic would be fatal to the econom: of the West Country, Mr John Well chairman of the Road Haulage Associatior told the annual dinner of the Association' Devon and Cornwall area this evening.
Hauliers, he said, had to be ready ti challenge uninformed critics. There wer people about today similar to the "insula British advisers" who suggested Kim Canute could stop the tide coming in Today they went under different names lilo environmentalists, the Jones-Aldingtot Committee and even Friends of the Earth.
He expected there would soon b roll-an /roll-off services to Roscoff ii Brittany which would be attacked if th extra traffic engendered appeared to caus congestion or annoyance.
"Your committee is to be congratulate( on facing this problem in advance an pressing — as the Association has done fo. years •— for a proper road system in th4 West Country," he said.