1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176 
End this road v rail knocking Keith Speed tells FTA
Page 30
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
• When Mr Keith Speed, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for State. DoE addressed the FTA at Eastbourne yester day he stressed the need to educate the public about the services the lorry pro vides. The standard of living of the public greatly depended on the use of road transport, but operators had to work towards the removal of grounds of justified complaints against the lorry as it is operated at present.
He deplored the knocking of road by rail — and vice versa—urging greater co operation between the two, but he in sisted that the door to door facility of road transport and its greater mileage — 200,000 miles of road against 11,500 of rail — gave road transport a dominant role now and in the future.
Mr Speed said the Government would shortly be advising local authorities about ways to implement heavy commercial vehicles (Controls and Regulations) Act 1973 (The Dykes Bill). The industry had to accept that there is a crying need for sensible controls on the movement of lorries by time and place. He hoped industry would not look upon it as a totally restrictive measure for local authorities would need to consult road transport operators and others in preparing their plans.
The Government, said Mr Speed, was pressing on with its road plans especially the provision of more by-passes for urban areas and afflicted villages.