Who is going to deliver food to his local Waitrose?
Build a bypass road. Pay for it. Problem solved in the manner it usually is in the US. (Except for the pay part).
I see his problem, and it’s probably a recent phenomena because of the satnavs.
An idiot. Ban trucks from taking a shortcut that saves fuel? How do you square that buddy?
Ban trucks from local deliveries? Oh, yeah, lets use smaller vehicles that are much less fuel efficient per ton-mile at moving cargo. So that in order to get X tons of goods in, you make even more trips and burn more fuel...
Oh, I'm sorry greenies - am I letting facts, physics, and engineering get in the way of your emotional feel-good advocacy?
Lorries are not in keeping with the rustic aesthetic.
Whew. St. Mary Mead is safe.
Jolly ol’ England was built pre-automobile and many small villages have roads that were cow paths that have become a single car width. It is not that no road can accommodate trucks aka lorries, it is just that not all roads can. What happens is when a transit truck (big & cross-country), not a smaller local delivery truck, hears about a tie up on the ‘M’ (Major) roadway and being unfamiliar with the area, tries his GPS / Satnav for a detour.
Newer truck lines and GPS have vehicle categorization but older ones see no difference between a road that a Ford Fiesta can make and a road needed for the transit truck 50% wider. When the GPS first came into use by the trucking industry, the newspapers had fun with a big truck stuck after going miles down a road too small to turn around on.
Lots more signage has been added but when major blockages develop and contracts require specific delivery, things will get ‘tight’ and sometimes too tight! Getting these kind of things unstuck sounds much easier than reality and in the meantime the local residents are blocked themselves. Does not take more than a couple of these to make for firm attitudes of keep your cross-country shipping out of my town streets!
Noise for thee, but not for me.
Theater prima donnas are noted for this sort of thing.
Personally, I love Jeremy Irons, a fabulously talented actor, but...
Methinks he is more concerned about his being inconvenienced driving about town than anything even close to “green”