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ROAD HAULAGE is being ex. cluded from contract work asso. dated with the redevelopment of a British Steel site.
Infill for the former Clyde Iror Works site at Cambuslang, near Glasgow, is to be transportec from at least one site in centre Scotland by rail, and roac haulage has not been given an opportunity to tender.
According to the Scottish Development Agency, which is responsible for the redevelopment work, there already is a major road improvement scheme being carried out beside the site, and water engineering is being undertaken on the site, and this will cut off road access.
The only alternative access route would be via a busy road and, as this would have involved one lorry leaving the site every 90 seconds, the SDA suspected that it might run into opposition from the local authorities' planning departments.
An SDA spokesman addec that there is a railhead into the site anyway, and road haulage would take four times as long as rail to move the infill.
But she did offer hauliers a small crumb of comfort, as the SDA has set aside a limited budget for road transport in the event of there being a serious disruption to the rail operation.