Sharing roads in 2019

摘要

Timber Transport Forum fter a decade of austerity, the coun-try may just be waking up to the realisation that maintaining and modernising infrastructure is a basic necessity for the economy to grow sustainably. In November 2017, the UK National Infrastructure Commission was tasked with reporting on the Future ofFreight producing their interim report a few days before Christmas. The Timber Transport Forum made a submission to their call for evidence but, suffice it to say that, while London gets 35 mentions in the report, forests and timber get none. The reporttalks about 'Freight Blindness' -the inability of both the public and strategic planners to recognise the requirements of freight transport.