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• by Dominic Parry Environmental transport pressure group Transport 2000

23rd November 2000
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director Stephen Joseph has criticised the Freight Transport Association's opposition to lorry bans or trunk roads.

Joseph asked: "Is a lorry saving three or four minutes going through somewhere like 18th century Stamford really a benefit? Do

the small-time savings for lorries really require the scale of road building and the effect that has on communities?"

Speaking at a conference on the future of trunk roads in London last week, Joseph urged that in future road building should be looked on as the last option, not the first.

ETA director general David Green responded that while he understood the pressures on local councils to introduce lorry bans, it was "almost a contradiction in terms to have a lorry ban on strategic roads".

He said: We very much welcome the DDT's advice that such bans get in the way of the government's sus tainable distribution strategy "If we have a strategic network, then its important that essen tial freight traffic should be capable of using it," he a Green welcomed the recent annc meet of the 10-year road strategy, bu tioned that it was the "absolute mini necessary and would not solve all Br transport problems.

Paul Watters, head of roads and port policy at the AA, warned that the at the bottom of the European table in of investment, even when taking the it transport plan into account.


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