The Campaign to Protect Rural England has published a report on how congestion caused by Operation Stack could be eased.
The CPRE disagrees with Kent County Council’s plan to build a lorry park near the M20 at Aldington, as well as two other parks at as yet undecided locations.
The group wants to see alternative methods such as the Quick Moveable Barrier scheme put into practice and assessed.
It has also called for “improved transport choices” to be made at national and international level.
Dr Hilary Newport, director of CPRE Kent, said: “KCC is an enthusiastic advocate of local foods; we would therefore expect more to be done to discourage food transport.
“In the light of the increasing pressures of climate change and energy security, there is a pressing need to focus our attention on making the best use of all our available resources, and to foster smarter growth which respects our environmental limits, rather than accommodating – and indeed encouraging – the spiralling growth of road freight.”
POSTED: 09/05/2008 16:11:15
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