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Lorry routes plan slammed by Civic Trust

22nd August 1975, Page 15
22nd August 1975
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A SYSTEM of lorry routes in London would be a blight that would turn high streets into sterile tracks similar to motorways. That is the view of the Civic Trust in its comments this week on the Greater London Council's proposed future road transport policy.

The Trust recommends that lorry routes should not be designated in London and say that it is " particularly unfortunate" that so much emphasis has been put on this proposal as to make it appear the key to the GLC's programme.

They welcome other suggested schemes, including peri pheral break bulk facilities, lorry parks and increasing the share of freight carried by rail and water, and claim that these stand on their own without lorry routeing.

Six main reasons have been put forward by the Trust for their opposition to the lorry routes plan. These are : • Lorry routes cannot avoid sensitive areas which is their intended purpose. For 105 of the 283 conservation areas in London are affected and 54 are penetrated by the suggested routes.

• Designation will encourage through lorry traffic. • Designation will force an acceptance of high lorry flows in areas where such flows should be unacceptable. "Slowly and insidiously over a period of time the lorry route function of the road would predominate, the quality of the environment would decline, and other uses would be discouraged. Having decided against urban motorways, London would find its high streets becoming sterile tracks similar to motorways in all but name!'

• No adequate answer has been given to the argument that all that is being don( to make matters worse those already in a poor vironment.

• The environment effects designation have not b( adequately assessed.

• Designation distracts att. tion from the growth freight movement which the real problem.

The Trust assumed ti there could be route desigi tion without large scale st tegic bans being imposed. I if such bans were brought then the Trust say that t reasons given for route des nation are greatly diminish

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Organisations: Greater London Council
Locations: London

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