Weak bridges to lead to detours
7th September 1995, Page 14
7th September 1995
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Trucks, Environment
• Hauliers face years of disruption because thousands of bridges may have to be taken out of the British road network for repairs. Under new EU regulations up to 7,000 bridges might have to be strengthened or upgraded by 1999 to handle heavier trucks.
Don McIntyre of the Freight Transport Association says: "Local authorities don't have enough money to upgrade all bridges within the time so inevitably weight restrictions will cause lorries lobe diverted.
The Department of Transport is less worried about the big repair programme. "We are obliged to open all roads to heavy lorries but realistically a lot of small bridges wouldn't be used anyway," it says.
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