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The motorway system is heavily overloaded but why Well it's simple, the population is expanding faster than the services can cope, everywhere you look ones quality of life is being eroded by too many people.Re: I know I've said this before but...
I'm not even sure that is what is needed when you look at foreign lorries why isn't freight put on trains and get those mammoth trucks off the roads. We have almost empty canals why aren't we using them ? Must be better ways to get things around the country without reducing the population which seems a bit drastic.Re: I know I've said this before but...
Sending all freight by trains would not work Julie, trains do not deliver door to door or to the final destination, trucks are still needed to take the goods from the train station or collect from the docks if goods have by sea. Mr Clumsy was a heavy goods vehicle driver for most of his working life, my son too is a heavy goods vehicle driver, he drives a car transporter all over Europe, currently he is on the ferry from Sicily to Malta. It is even more difficult for truck drivers, no matter where they come from, they are subject to tachographs and MUST stop wherever they are for the designated breaks. Plus of course trucks pay an absolute fortune in tax to be on the roads. How many people within Europe would be put out of work if there were no trucks? It wouldnīt cure the problem of busy roads anyway, anyone who drives a vehicle is quite literally part of the problem.Re: I know I've said this before but...
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Ah Motorways , I love them, mainly because it's my job. Working for the Highways Agency in their Regional Control. Centre for the south east of England. The M23 is struggling at the moment due to some Emergency Bridge repairs seeing traffic having to contra flow onto one carriageway whilst these repairs take place. Motorways carry around 80% of England's traffic but but only make up around 20% of the roads we have to use out there.
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