N. London ban off ice
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PLANS for a 7.5-tonne-weigl limit in the London Boroughs 4 Enfield and Barnet have bee revived by the Greater Lando Council, but the industry bi lieves they represent the use 4 a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
The council has circulatE plans for a 50 square mile ban an area bounded by the M25 I the North and the North Circul. Road (A406) to the South, ar public meetings are being he in the area over the next fe weeks.
The proposals were shelvE last summer (CM July 18, 198 in view of the imminence of if Wood Inquiry and to give newly opened section of M; time to prove whether it wou improve congestion problerr in the area.
Indeed, since the Al /A10 se( tion of the M25 was opened, tra fic on one of the busiest roads i the area, the A1005 Ridgewa. has dropped substantially, wit the number of lorries over 1 tons dropping by 76 per cent.
The other problem road in if area, the A111 Cockfosters Roe has experienced only a 24 p. cent fall in over-16-ton traffi but the Freight Transport Ass. ciation believes that improvE signposting for the M25 wou help divert more vehicles am from the A111.
MARTINS Transport, of Sou. College Street, Aberdeen, roe hauliers, was fined £50 at Abe deen Sheriff Court this mom after admitting causing ar permitting a lorry to be use without a tachograph beir fitted.