Get lorries out of towns AA chief
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• Heavy lorries should be compelled to go round London and other "afflicted communities" using specially designated and specially signposted routes, said the director-general of the AA, Mr A. C. Durie, last week. He complained that every day he saw congestion problems created in the West End by "enormous lorries, clearly heading to and from the docks, and using the very centre of the world's greatest capital as a short cut on their journey". This only emphasized the desperate need for an immediate start to be made on an adequate ring road system for London.
Mr Dune said that, on the question of whether the heavier Continental lorries should be allowed to use our roads, the Minister for Transport Industries had made a significant stand in Brussels.
Meanwhile, it seemed quite wrong to the AA that heavy Commercial traffic. British or European, should be allowed to create severe environmental problems on roads passing through villages, towns and cities.
During the ensuing question time, a motoring journalist referred to the Birmingham accident report on injuries and deaths occurring in collisions involving heavy lorries, and, suggesting that this was an insupportable situation, pressed Mr Dude to commit the AA to a policy of total segregation of lorries, especially on motorways.
The AA director-general refused to be drawn.