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Oxford to look at lorry routes

30th July 1976, Page 16
30th July 1976
Page 16
Page 16, 30th July 1976 — Oxford to look at lorry routes
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OXFORDSHIRE has put forward a system of lorry routes that may end up as the only routes across the country for truckers.

The scheme has been offered for public reaction and issued to the RHA and FTA for comment. It suggests that vehicles over 16 tons gvw should be advised to use only the selected routes.

All other roads in the county would be for access only because the county council says that a balance needs to be found between res.tricting truck movements and the effects of increased operating costs for the hauliers.

The council suggests that all lorry routes — and only the lorry routes — should be named the primary routes and only they should have the green direction signs now used.

Routes would begin their lives as being advisory only, but that is only because the extra cost of new roadsigns to make the routes compulsory — put at around £100,000 — would outweigh the advantages of the system.

The council is now looking into the possibilities of extending its present compulsory.restrictions into a number of areas where they say that lorries cause problems.

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