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T.R.T.A. Opposing Traffic Schemes
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REPRESENTATIONS to the Ministry of Transport over principles involved in traffic schemes at Weymouth and Lancaster are being made by the Traders Road Transport Association.
At Weymouth the council plans to permit vehicles to wait, but not to allow any loading or unloading. The aim is to provide facilities for car shoppers.
The T.R.T.A. opposed this proposal at a public inquiry last year and the inspector who conducted the inquiry recommended in his report that the council should reconsider this approach.
The council's views remain unchanged, however, although the T.R.T.A. has further suggested that the legitimate needs of shoppers and delivery services could be met by permitting loading gaps where goods vehicles could draw up. So far as is known, the Weymouth case is unique in that it is the first time a traffic scheme has been prepared imposing a ban on vehicles loading and unloading, whilst permitting them to wait.
At Lancaster, the municipal authorities are seeking to make a pedestrian precinct of a shopping street on Saturdays. The T.R.T.A. is in favour of suitably sited pedestrian precincts but present plans would cause delivery disruptions.