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Nearly half of all Crossrail Loads to be carried by road
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By Roger Brown ROAD TRANSPORT will have to handle just under half of all loads required every day to build the Crossrail link between west and east London.
Approximately 600 truck-loads per day will be managed by the £16bn Crossrail project, which will account for 47% of journeys to and from the construction sites. Of the remainder, 39% are to be carried by barge and 14% by rail.
Simon Phillips, construction logistics manager at Crossrail, says the company plans to centrally manage the transportation of materials by road, rail and waterway.
He adds that strict controls will be put in place to manage the number of trucks travelling across central London, and new logistics facilities and consolidation centres will be set up for deliveries.
"Our aim is to minimise waste and maximise recycling," • Phillips says.
Concerns have already been raised • over congestion resulting from the Crossrail work. Labour peer Lord Berkeley has called for disused Royal Mail tunnels under London to be reopened to shift spoil and avert traffic chaos, reports CM's sister title Contract Journal. As part of the Crossrail plan, some 21km of twin-bore tunnel will be built below London, and thousands of tonnes of excavated material a month will be moved away from the construction areas. Tunnelling work is scheduled to run from 2010 to 2015.
Spoil from tunnelling will be transported to %Itasca Island in Essex as part of an RSPB scheme to create coastal marshland habitat.
• CM will shortly report on haulage opportunities and tender procedures for Crossrail.