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Dublin ban to be extended
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The city council plans to extend the truck ban to four-axle vehicles
— and rigids may or may not be exempt. Chris Tindall reports.
DUBLIN ciTY COUNCIL (DCC) says its ban on five-axle trucks has been a huge success but it still hasn't decided whether to extend the scheme to include all four-axle rigids.
in a new report the council says the ban, which began on 19 February,has removed 1_5(X) LGVs a day from the city-centre streets. Combined with the opening of
the Dublin Port Tunnel, DCC says freight traffic has been cut by 4.100 five-axle vehicles a day.
However, it has had to pay out 6200,000 (E143,000) in toll rebates to operators of trucks moving between the North and South Port areas because there was no alternative route for them.
DCC's strategy includes extending the ban to all four-axle vehicles from 2009,but this may he relaxed to cover only artics. DCC's head of technical services, Brendan O'Brien, says it will spend next year working out what to do.
Irish Road Haulage Association spokesman Jimmy Quinn says: "It's just another layer of bureaucracy we can do without. Four-axle vehicles arc hauling stuff into M&S and the other stores. The heavy-duty stuff has virtually gone from the city centre; there's not much need for it."
In a submission to DCC on how the strategy has operated, local firm Reynolds Logistics says it supports the LG V strategy. even though it has increased its running costs by 7%.