Recent HGV/cyclist accidents

[quote=Cajeta;627052]Why can't construction traffic happen before rush hour?
Higher wages shouldn't be the issue here.

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Take cement deliveries as an example - Most of the bigger sites using readymix have deliveries throughout the day, usually being poured into a single concrete pump to raise it up the building. Concrete starts setting as soon as it's mixed and a day's worth cannot simply be delivered in the morning. Even if that were possible it would require many more trucks to deliver in your tight timeslot and what would the drivers do for the rest of the day? It simply will not work.

Additionally, what about the people that live and sleep in London. Do they really want construction sites starting at 6am or earlier?

Seriously, forget about getting trucks of the road during daytime hours. It will never happen.

This is sadly the truth- any sort of ban on HGV's quite simply will never, ever happen.

The most that our present government would be prepared to do (going on their history so far) would be to use congestion charging/ANPR cameras to impose an even heavier tax on large vehicles going into central London during the day.

A cost which every company would just pass onto the building/whatever industry.

It would be fantastic to have Londons roads free of all but human powered traffic, but as this is an impossible dream-we have to deal with the situation in which we find ourselves now.