To: Transport Secretary Chris Grayling
Reduce congestion caused by HGV traffic
Prevent HGVs from using the outside lane of a dual carriageway during times of peak traffic.
Why is this important?
Ever increasing strain is being placed upon our road network on a daily basis. While construction work continually increases our road network capacity for traffic, there are measures that could be taken to improve the efficiency of our current capacity.
By ensuring HGVs do not overtake on dual carriageways between the hours of 07:00-09:00 and 16:30-18:30 Monday to Friday inclusive, two benefits will be observed:
1.) The outside lane will be free to flow traffic at a rate akin to the speed limit - not limited to a lower speed by slower moving vehicles. This should have the effect of reducing tailbacks caused by HGVs in the outside lane.
2.) Free from the frustration of HGV "elephant races" cars are more likely to use both lanes when traffic is more freely flowing. Again this is likely to positively impact the flow rate of traffic on our existing road network.
There are likely to be further benefits including environmental benefits created by smoother flowing traffic. Excessive braking caused by braking and accelerating to match speed with HGVs can increase fuel consumption and therefore the emissions created by a given amount of traffic.
This is a system that can be found working in other countries and so could feasibly work here in ours.
If this is something you would like to see in place to reduce traffic, decrease journey times and improve the quality of life for millions of commuting motorists, please take action and vote now.
By ensuring HGVs do not overtake on dual carriageways between the hours of 07:00-09:00 and 16:30-18:30 Monday to Friday inclusive, two benefits will be observed:
1.) The outside lane will be free to flow traffic at a rate akin to the speed limit - not limited to a lower speed by slower moving vehicles. This should have the effect of reducing tailbacks caused by HGVs in the outside lane.
2.) Free from the frustration of HGV "elephant races" cars are more likely to use both lanes when traffic is more freely flowing. Again this is likely to positively impact the flow rate of traffic on our existing road network.
There are likely to be further benefits including environmental benefits created by smoother flowing traffic. Excessive braking caused by braking and accelerating to match speed with HGVs can increase fuel consumption and therefore the emissions created by a given amount of traffic.
This is a system that can be found working in other countries and so could feasibly work here in ours.
If this is something you would like to see in place to reduce traffic, decrease journey times and improve the quality of life for millions of commuting motorists, please take action and vote now.
