Tunnel Refineries backs lorry ban
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• A London company has welcomed a council lorry ban in Greenwich that will make it harder for hauliers to reach the mouth of the Blackwell Tunnel from April.
Tunnel Refineries has distributed maps of alternative routes and lists of road directions to its suppliers as part of its support for the ban. Its contract distributor, local haulier Tankfreight, has already blocked off forbidden roads in the town centre from its computer-based routeing software. 'We think that in most cases it's eminently practical to find other routes," says TR's David Rice. "If we can do it others can."
But Deptford-based Convoys, which carries newsprint across the Thames for printers on the Isle of Dogs, says the ban will cause problems because it is sited close to the Greenwich oneway system. Its drivers will have to go up the A2 to Blackheath. "It'll make traffic even worse on the A2," it warns.
---Greenwich council
spokesman Andrew Stern says the ban is o six-month experiment but that the council has the option to extend it until its effects are stud
Banned? Just find other routes. ied properly.