Look to Paris, RH tells opponents
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IE CONSTRUCTIVE answer to environmental lorry problems lies Paris, where a second ring motorway is being built, Road Haulage sedation chairman Ken Rogers said last week.
-le was addressing a Greater ndon meeting of the Freight ansport Association, and .ned the anti-lorry lobby's proris altitude on its head by say): "Paris is often called an enonmental gem and I would ree.
'One of the secrets of the ris environment is the high 3ndard motorway by-pass own as the Boulevard Perierique which was built for that y in much the same way as -igway One might have been ilt in London," he went on.
iknd Mr Rogers continued: here is little objection ta that ,ulevard, and now a Ringway
— the A86 — is under conuction today. If environmenists really want to be construee they should go to Paris and e how the French do it."
He contrasted this approach th that of the Greater London )uncil, and dismissed the pod Inquiry into lorry bans as rypothetical, irrelevant, and possible", pointing out that 3 volume of evidence to be ted through by April virtually
eliminates any possibility of detailed facts emerging from the investigation.
"I find it hard to believe that anyone in London has any confidence at all in these inquiries. Yet, they will in all probability be paraded as a shining example to other local authorities throughout the country as a way of getting cheap votes if they recommend lorry bans despite the fact that they would be against every economic interest.
"Lorry bans in London would be a disaster in terms of employment both for manufacturing industry situated within the GLC area and for the road haulage industry itself," he added.