Private Eye magazine reported in issue 1349 (26 September 2013) that Chris Yarsley, the EU affairs manager for the Freight Transport Association (FTA), stated that he had “been asked by the DfT to represent them at various stakeholder meetings due to the cutbacks in London!” On 10 October 2013, the Rt.Hon. Patrick McLoughlin, the Secretary of State for Transport…
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Freight Transport Association blames victims who should be ‘giving space to HGVs’
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Karen Dee, the Freight Transport Association‘s director of policy blasted a huge air horn (figuratively of course) at today’s announcement by the Mayor of London and the UK’s Department of Transport about the improvement of the safety of HGVs. This, on a day when a woman riding her bicycle in London was killed by a person…