With Nimbies always moaning to get lorries off the roads and get the freight on the train , here’s the dilemma when over 3000 Nimbies signed a petition called Snub the hub , on the basis of a new railway hub .
You would think that’s what they wanted but no , apparently 6319 Hgv movements a day to serve the new terminal at Gailey in Staffordshire , the plans will include Hgv parking , and,container storage and other facilities .
But the transport minister has given it the green light to proceed .
The trouble with Nimbies , is they can’t get it their heads by using trains for freight means a lorry will be always used to the final destination and not the train .
So to the Nimbies in Staffordshire , you want freight off the roads and less lorries on the roads but in this case you have lost your argument .
No doubt if the rare newt or bird is spotted , that will make the lawyers rich with the objections . Or a 800 year old Oak tree .
Easy solution, they sell their houses to lorry drivers at a good price because of the location being besmirched by said lorry drivers.
The railway as far as I know is running at near capacity. You would need a fleet of lorries to take stuff to the railway hub/marshalling yard/whatever you call it. Then the same again at the other end of the railway journey. This is how stuff was moved sixty years ago. Then folks had a better idea,ho hum.
Strange decisions made by councils, the cafe at Standeford, on left hand side before Four Ashes pub, wanted to extend the truck park and got refused by said council but yet willing to build this freight hub with minimal facilities for drivers, facilities should be included in all of these plans.
I know the area well, from the plans I’ve seen it is more of an extension from the chemical works up to the A5 at Gailey,with access from the new set of lights just before Gailey island and the exit on to the A5.
When that incinerator was built the locals were up in arms over that, where do they think their household waste goes?
PS. It don’t concern me as I live 4+ miles away and could do with some job options in case this one goes ponto!
Exactly the same problem with the old Daw Mill Colliery site in North Warwickshire. It ran 24/7 before it closed, tippers and trains where running in and out all the time,now the Company who bought the land are struggling with the opposition for a freight terminal.
Complaints being the amount of heavy traffic it would create going in and out,and the surrounding roads not being suitable. Considering the amount of dirt and muck the pit created on the roads, they had a road sweeper to go up and down,and the road was more or less always black with dust.
As nearly always there has been an EX Labour MP fighting the locals cause, even though he does not live in the area,once again going to the extreme with the objections.
Like 100s of HGVs and up to 10 + trains a day,which is ridiculous assumption considering the rail track is nothing more than a siding .
The lack of secure parking for ports is another issue , some of us will remember when you could park up inside Portsmouth port , have your time off , good cafe there or walk in to town , but no longer , the anti lorry brigade of Kent banning overnight parking , the only truck stop for Portsmouth is basically a scrap yard and going back in time to the 1950’s .
Nothing decent for the Dover area , but the general public can’t get enough of their cheap rubbish they ordered on line that a foreign lorry traveled a 1000 thousand miles but God forbid if he or she needs a rest break .
English tourists that take a day to do 100 miles when they disembark in France but the lorry has to be in Milan for a deadline .
The same tourists that don’t know what fuel pump to use and forget what side of the road to drive on .
And what’s happening with the huge truck strop for the Dover area for the fore casted Brexit traffic jams or just park the lorries up on the motorway with a Portaloo on the hard shoulder .
toby1234abc:
… some of us will remember when you could park up inside Portsmouth port , have your time off , good cafe there or walk in to town , but no longer , the anti lorry brigade of Kent banning overnight parking , the only truck stop for Portsmouth is basically a scrap yard and going back in time to the 1950’s .
Toby… Portsmouth isn’t in Kent. 
dieseldave:
toby1234abc:
… some of us will remember when you could park up inside Portsmouth port , have your time off , good cafe there or walk in to town , but no longer , the anti lorry brigade of Kent banning overnight parking , the only truck stop for Portsmouth is basically a scrap yard and going back in time to the 1950’s .
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dieseldave:
toby1234abc:
… some of us will remember when you could park up inside Portsmouth port , have your time off , good cafe there or walk in to town , but no longer , the anti lorry brigade of Kent banning overnight parking , the only truck stop for Portsmouth is basically a scrap yard and going back in time to the 1950’s .
Probably goes some way to explaining why the “anti lorry brigade” get their way - a history of idiot lorry drivers going to the wrong county and looking for somewhere to park up while they consult their road map and work out how to make that 200 mile journey take at least two days…
I knew Portsmouth wasn’t in Kent , it was bad dictation on my part , I told my secretary what to write but somehow the truck stop in Portsmouth shouldn’t have been confused with parking problems in Kent and the Dover area .
Maybe a new paragraph would have helped and a full stop to separate the two subjects .
If you think that idiot lorry drivers are bad, I give you coach drivers. “Aye boss thats me in Leeds now , no sign of the castle though”.