Lorry route planned for Greenwich
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• Proposals for dealing with the problems of heavy commerical traffic through Greenwich and Deptford would, if implemented. be one of the most far reaching schemes of traffic and environmental management introduced in London, says the GLC.
The proposals are contained in a study commissioned from Cohn Buchanan and Partners, who recommend that heavy lorries should be diverted from the area round St Alphege's Church, Greenwich, and the Royal Naval College.
Lorries of three tons and over would travel from the riverside road to the A2 at Deptford Broadway, up Blackheath Hill to Blackheath and rejoin their original route via the East Cross Route motorway.
This would be the first phase of a long-term strategy for the Greenwich and Blackheath area, following from the study made by the consultants for the GLC a year ago into the effect there of the Greater London Development Plan. It could be completed. the consultants say, by 1975.
The second phase, which it would be hoped to complete in the early 80s, would relieve traffic by widening the A2 across Blackheath and closing and grassing over other roads on the Heath.