'Tomcat' jibe at GLC roads
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A BID for the Department of Transport to hand over many of the trunk roads in London to the Greater London Council was made last week when the GLC transport committee met.
The move, which could be one way around the GLC's troubled path towards a ban on 38-tonne lorries, was supported by the Conservative members of the committee, although one, Joan Wykes, told Labour members that, on the basis of present GLC transport policy: "We don't consider that you're capable of looking after a tomcat's alley."
As a first stage, it wants all DTp roads inside the North Circular Road (A406) to be detrunked, and says this can be justified on the grounds that the completion of the M25 will fill a substantial gap in the national trunk road network.
"The national role of trunk roads within the M25 will be diminished and while they would retain their function as main traffic routes, they would be used wholly by traffic with a destination in London," it said.