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New central London freight partnership seeks members
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HAULIERS ARE BEING urged to help solve central London's freight delivery problems by joining a new Freight Quality Partnership (FOP) with an initial budget of more than .#2(X),000.
The central London FOP will be launched next month (October) to tackle contentious issues such as loading and unloading restrictions and night-time delivery curfews.
Transport for London (TfL), which manages transport services across the capital, says the money will be spent on researching and developing a five-year strategy. Its initial focus will be on attracting members so key issues can be identified.
Udoka Mad ueke, TfL's freight forum co-ordinator, hopes to foster closer relationships between business. TfL and the community by using newsletters, a website, conferences and seminars. "We're working together with the boroughs to try to understand the problems operators are facing in London and ultimately develop solutions," he adds.
Central London is the third subregion within the capital to get its own FOP— but Madueke says they are not intended to replace FQPs operating at borough level.
"They enable London boroughs to work with the industry at a strategic level while having the flexibility of implementing schemes at a local level."
He expects another FQP covering the East End to be up and running by May 2007; talks on a sub-regional FQP for North London are due to start soon.
Central London FQP will be chaired by Professor Mike Brown from the University of Westminster.