THE towns of Malton and Norton are to be the subject of a traffic management study in a bid to end decades of congestion and air pollution.
The towns are reputed to be among the most congested in Yorkshire, with long queues, especially in the summer months, with heavy trucks heading from Teesside to the Humber.
However, Gordon Cressey, traffic manager for the county council said another North Yorkshire traffic blackspot, Pickering, would have to wait more than a year for a similar study and any hopes of a long awaited bypass going ahead were slim.
Mr Cressey said work had started on the traffic study for Malton and Norton and data was being collected which would be discussed at a public meeting.
Similar studies have already been carried out at Whitby and Skipton.
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