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Armitage told low profile lorry is best
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EFFORTS should be made towards quieter, cleaner, and less aggressive lorries, the Lorries and the Environment Committee has told the Armitage Inquiry.
It says that the public is concerned more about the size, smell, noise, and potential threat of a lorry than with its weight or axle spacing, and suggests that practical steps should be taken to make them acceptable.
In new developments, it proposes that provision be made to keep people and lorries, and cars and lorries, apart.
It also wants road design and traffic management to be undertaken on such a basis as to make life better for lorry operators and other road users, and it proposes that freight complexes and shared consolidation facilities be incorporated at a town planning level.
The Committee accepts that historic towns, such as York and Windsor, have peculiar problems, and concedes the need to keep their traditional road patterns. But it does stress that additional costs imposed by bans and diversions are recognised and accepted by all concerned.
Future energy supplies concern the Committee which appeals for "every possible assistance" to be given to the development of alternative means of powering heavy vehicles. It proposes that, in view of the vital role which they play, road and rail freight should take priority over other oil users for the use of dwindling supplies.
But it joins with other groups in playing down the extent to which freight can be transferred from road to rail or water. "The volume of traffic involved would be insufficient to affect the overall relationship between lorries and the environment in which they operate, particularly in urban areas."