No relief from HGVs

The County Council claims that 36,000 people have benefitted from the Stoke Hammond bypass, but ignore the fact that our villages have suffered as a result Hopes that the County Council was going to take action to get the London Waste lorries back on the M1 where they belong have rapidly faded.

The opening of the Stoke Hammond bypass and a new entrance to the landfill site directly off the bypass has brought a new wave of HGVs carrying London's waste up the A4146 and B488 as they attempt to evade the M1 widening and Dunstable crossroads.

County Councillor Avril Davies says 'I've been on their backs about the waste lorries and other inappropriate HGVs on our roads for over a year but very little has happened, apart from meetings. 'Even Bucks County Council's own policies to manage freight, were abandoned in 2003. 'As well as raising the local issue at every opportunity I am now pushing for the re instatement of the freight policies as a matter of urgency in the next local transport plan, and for the A505 - M1 link to be a Bucks priority.'

'There's no getting away from the fact that we all rely on lorries and HGVs to keep goods in the shops, money in the economy for jobs and pensions, and of course to carry away our waste. But for many they are the bane of their lives as more and more of them thunder past at speed or squeeze onto smaller and smaller roads.

'The idea is to involve residents and parish councils in designating suitable routes for HGVs, and road haulage associations, hauliers, sat nav, map people and police in publicising and enforcing them, and the speed limits, as already happens in Suffolk.'

Printed by Aylesbury Liberal Democrats. Promoted by Geoff Twiss on behalf of Avril Davies (Liberal Democrat) all at Reform House, 6 Castle St, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP20 2RE.