Holden Sees Change in Truck-Ban Foes

Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden held a meeting of the council Transportation Committee Thursday to hear objections to rush-hour restrictions on truck traffic and said he believes those who oppose the plan will come to support it.

“I think we are on the right track,” Holden said.

More than a half-dozen speakers representing public agencies, private firms and associations voiced their concerns at a City Hall meeting held by Holden, chairman of the Transportation Committee.

Reservations included questions about the delivery of perishable products to grocery stores, the problems of violating noise ordinances at off-hours and the necessity of renegotiating labor contracts with unions representing truck operators.

After the meeting, Holden said he hopes truck-traffic restrictions, proposed by Mayor Tom Bradley about two years ago, can be adopted by the first of the year, if it can be done without “putting people out of business or causing them undue hardship.” He said that he had never opposed the plan, despite recents reports in The Times that he had.