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restrictions on heavies
• Heavy lorries may be banned from two-thirds of Norfolk's 5000 miles of roadways in a bid to keep them out of rural villages.
Norfolk County Council is drawing up plans to improve several hundred miles of minor roads which will become recommended routes for lorries to use.
Already sugar-beet lorries use recommended routes to avoid travelling through villages as much as possible.
This means the lorries will be urged to use 1000 miles of the county's 4200 miles of minor roads and trunk roads. But the scheme involves the widening to two-lorry width of many minor roads, at present only wide enough for one lorry and this will cost many thousands of pounds and would have to have Government approval.
• Cumbria County Council last week referred back to its highways and transportation committee for further consideration a resolution from the committee supporting moves to prevent extra heavy traffic on A66, linking M6 at Pen rith to West Cumberland, until that road has been improved.
Westmorland County Council is seeking a restriction on heavy traffic using A591 Kendal-Keswick route to West Cumberland as soon as possible. Cumberland County Council has warned that it will object, because A66 is not yet adequate as an alternative route, a view also supported by the police.
The Cumbria highways and transportation committee had recommended that the Westmorland authority be informed that, while it agreed with the need for restriction of through heavy traffic on A591, the time was not opportune, particularly in advance of A66 improvement scheme.
Mr Arthur Eaton, at the Cumbria meeting, argued that the industrial traffic, which had been using A591 for many years and found it quicker and more convenient, should not be banned just to make way for growing tourist traffic.
Mr Stephen Murray, however, contended that the only nuisance of moving the traffic from A591 to A66 at the moment would be to the drivers, not to the local people.