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BANS ON THE RUN
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Parish councillors, environmental groups and urban authorities seem to be ganging up against trucks. They hotly deny victimisation, but the situation is serious ... A two-pronged attack on cks is being launched by m dwellers and their councousins. At least 11 propIs for lorry bans are in the eline throughout Britain, T1 Southampton to Edingh, Leeds and Carlisle. And body representing parish :mils in England and Wales called for a ban on heavy cks on all non-trunk roads. rile moves illustrate the it the road transport indushas on its hands to be seen "community-friendly".
long the urban proposals, nhampton wants a total ht-time ban on trucks. Carlisle, Man4d and Newquay are making their main aets pedestrian zones, adding to the ,blems that are already faced by urban very vans.
Ehe National Association of Local Coun, made up of parish councillors, has tten to the Government asking for a on heavy trucks on all roads deemed ,uitable for them. Unless a truck has a ,cial licence to make a delivery in an a, vehicles of over 17 tonnes would be it to special "heavy lorry routes". t is not only vicars' wives and retired mels who are leading the Opposition to cks. The Labour-controlled Greater tdon Council was behind the London Ty Ban, and effective pressure groups h as Transport 2000 and Friends of the -th are constantly pushing for freight to taken off the roads, and put on to rail. rhe NAI.0 insists that its proposals are anti-lorry. It says banning trucks from tor roads would leave the Government a to concentrate on updating trunk ds and bridges for heavier trucks, so ing the way for 40 tonnes before 1999. t is a view the Freight Transport Asso:ion repudiates. The association says
the NALC ideas were considered and rejected by the Armitage report in the early 1980s, and that in any case only 1.5% of HGVs use minor roads — usually when they have to make a delivery and find there is no alternative route.
The Green revolution of the past two years has helped the environmentalists' case. They portray trucks as major contributors to noise and atmospheric pollution. Both the VIA and the Road Haulage Association say that sensationalist press reports highlighting accidents involving "juggernauts" do little to help the industry's image in the community.