VANS and lorries will be banned from making deliveries into city centres and replaced with fleets of environmentally-friendly electric cargo vehicles, under new plans being drawn up by the UK Government. Britain is facing a green “transport revolution” with the government determined to find ways of reducing congestion and cutting pollution. With the UK having more than four million vans and lorries on its roads, whose numbers are set to increase with more online sales, it has been suggested they are replaced with a range of electronic transport, including vans, cargo bikes, quadricycles and micro vehicles, to transform the last-mile deliveries across congested cities.
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