N Yorkshire traffic plans get snarled up
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WHILE North Yorkshire County Council is drawing up detailed plans for a cordon-type lorry ban to keep heavy lorries out of York, another move taken by the Council last year is actively diverting more lorries through the city centre.
In May 1979 heavy lorry traffic was banned from a road leading from the village of Askham Bryan in the southwest to the British Sugar Corporation's beet factory on the north-west side of the city.
Instead lorries are now diverted further into the city and out again to approach the beet factory from another direction. The object of the Dan is to eliminate lorries from residential area, but it also bias the perverse effect of directing yet more lorry traffic into the city. Sugar beet growers and hauliers in the area who regularly use the route to the beet factory have, led by Bill Warwick of North Rigton, protested to the council that the ban adds over 11/2 miles and 15 minutes in city traffic to a short trip.
The hauliers' petition has been unsuccessful in getting the ban lifted, but it could be affected by North Yorkshire .County Council's decision on its cordon plans, which should be finished next month.