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Scots A9 dualling will undermine rail freight goal

David Spaven Scottish representative Rail Freight Group Edinburgh EH10
03 August 2018
 

One of the key criteria for judging the impact of raising HGV speed limits should be the impact on rail freight (‘Scots Government awaits DfT study of HGV speed limit rise’ LTT 20 Jul).

For road hauliers, the impact of raising the speed limit to 50mph on single-carriageway sections of the A9 between Perth and Inverness has been to enable transits up to half-an-hour faster from the Central Belt to the Highlands. There has been no comparable enhancement for rail hauliers, who continue...

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