Transport rustics lift the drawbridge
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OBJECTIONS by Transport 200 (BC) to plans to spend £300 million to give London the roads it needs to revitalise its economy should surprise no one. Railway interests find themselves in good company with the Ancient Monuments Society as subscribers to an organisation dedicated to obstructing progress in road transport.
But I am a little puzzled by the Ramblers' Association's alignment with opposition to goods roads that would enable its members to get quickly by faster, cheaper and more efficient public transport to the countryside where they love to go awandering, their knapsacks on their backs. A motorway could transform Commercial Road and East India Dock Road into a hiker's paradise. I see the whole scheme as a Bare Knees Charter.
It might also have one or two advantages for commerce and industry, such as enticing people back into the metropolitan centre to work and live, relievint commuters of the present daily nightmare and enabling goods to be manufactured and distributed more cheaply.
DID YOU KNOW that a "ban" was once an "angry execration"? The chant, "Ban the lorry," would have been a mediaeval curse. In many people's eyes it still is.