The Tunbridge Wells bulldog bites
18th December 1982, Page 31
18th December 1982
Page 31
Page 31, 18th December 1982
— The Tunbridge Wells bulldog bites
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THE DEFENSIVE attitude towards road damage often adopted by road-users' organisations has been abandoned by the Freight Transport Association. In evidence to a House of Commons committee of inquiry the Tunbridge Wells bulldog came out with bared teeth.
In effect it barked: "Industry doesn't care about wearing out the roads. Why should it? That's what they are for. In any event, Users are paying 21/2 times more n special taxation than is spent on the roads so they are entitled to something for the money.
"Anyway, if roads were built slightly thicker in the first place, they would last 10 times longer. But they would still be wrecked by excavations to install and repair public utilities. So put that in your concrete mixer and spread it."