This is the solution given most often by
the anti bypass campaigners and it is utterly unworkable and ineffective. This is the solution given most often by
the anti bypass campaigners and it is utterly unworkable and ineffective.
This can only affect through traffic, lorries working within the area or delivering to it could not be banned. Weight limit signs would need to be put up on all the A628 and A57 feeder roads and then enforced. The task would be a mammoth one and completely beyond the capacity of any police force.
With 60% of the traffic coming in from the Glossop area a weight limit
could, at best, only affect a small number of vehicles, which has been
calculated to be less than 5%. Not a solution to the problem and not worth the
manpower required to impose it.
A complete survey has been done on the effect this would have on the traffic and again it has been shown that it would, at best, reduce it by about 4%. The idea by the Railway advocators is to have drive on/drive off trains to carry lorries. They would be loaded on to the trains in the Sheffield area and off them in Tameside.
This requires two more hauling yards to be built with the people around them putting up with the generated turmoil. It also requires the lorry drivers or companies to voluntarily use the system considerably extending their journey time in the process.