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LORRY PROBLEMS which have prompted Cambridgeshire County Council to try to ban traffic from sections of the A45 will only be solved by building new roads, according to the Freight Transport Association.
Its East Midlands members said this earlier in May when they endorsed the FTA's national view that an improved East Coast ports access route is a high priority for Government investment.
They said that the missing section of the A45 to the A604 was the only gap in the through route from the Ml. By building the Higham Ferrers by-pass as a single-carriageway road, the Government was creating an additional traffic bottleneck.
Transport Secretary David Howell has already turned down one Cambridgeshire proposal for a ban on lorries over 16.5 tonnes from part of the A45, but the council is pursuing a revised proposal which it wants to agree in conjunction with Northamptonshire.