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1: On the total vehicle movements, road space, congestion, exhaust emissions etc. do the math HGVs exist because they make sense
2: On the economics of building transshipment depots, buying fleets of small vehicles, hiring thousands of new drivers, enlarging loading bays and staffing them to cope with shipments split into multiple loads etc. do the math HGVs exist because they make sense
You might think saving lives (I don't think you'd save any lives, but let's humour you for a moment on this delusion) would be worth any cost, but it isn't. Economics doesn't work that way. If you reduce economic efficiency by your HGV ban, that means fewer resources available for other things. Maybe you'd stop treating cancer in patients over 70; that would cover the cost, and all that would happen would be a load of old people not having their lives needlessly prolonged. So to save a few cyclists (which you wouldn't anyway), you want to kill off their grandparents? Sounds like a fair swap, why not write it up as a serious, fully costed policy document, you can even reuse a title which is long out of copyright; "A Modest Proposal"