2009-10-12
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quote 09:56:00
“ The beautifully named Operation Moondrop attempted to keep roads clear by restricting deliveries to night-time. ”
Tony Travers, in the Guardian’s obituary of Lord Plummer of St Marylebone, the Conservative leader of the GLC in the 1960s in 1970s.
He was also, as Martin notes, a keen proponent of the “motorway box” around Central London that was, in retrospect, luckily never built.
