The Road Haulage Association is campaigning for members’ trucks to share bus lanes, and enjoy traffic signal priority and overnight on park-and-ride sites.
The RHA’s Deliver UK programme, aimed at ensuring policy-makers ‘recognise the contribution road haulage makes to the UK economy’, highlights bids to share road space. It wants acknowledgement of ‘the fact that goods vehicles making deliveries provide an essential service to the economic activity of the UK’s towns and cities, and should be given the same priority as buses’.
On parking, chief executive, Geoff Dunning, cites a dual-use truck and bus park near York which ‘worked well enough’. He also wants more schemes like the 4km East Leeds link road with the M1. Opened in 2009, this is reserved for commercial vehicles, high-occupancy cars and buses at peak times.
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