However, the tone of the article inevitably veers away from the straight and narrow and takes the usual route signposted 'haulage bashing'. We won't bore you with every detail, but it inevitably features a contribution from rent-a-quote Green Party London Assembly member Jenny Jones. She says: "It is fairly disastrous having all these extra lorries on some of London's most congested roads. There will be worse air quality and a lot more cyclist deaths."

Of course, her opinion that extra lorry movements on already congested roads are a bad thing is a valid one. It's when you reach the end of the quote that your jaw drops.

Sorry? Did I read that right? "There will be worse air quality and a lot more cyclist deaths." Oh, apparently I did.

Not just one or two extra deaths either "a lot more". That there have been eight HGV-involved cyclist deaths this year is a tragedy, but trying to link the two issues... well, crass doesn't even begin to describe her comments. It's the sort of poorly-considered, knee-jerk, politics-by-soundbite that deserves to see her voted out of the London Assembly.

Of course that won't happen, there are too many Green Party supporters like her who don't understand the first thing about road transport or the wider economy, but would much rather trucks weren't on the roads.

Mind you, if she can come up with an alternative means of disposing of the 5 million tonnes of soil then we're all ears. We suspect the silence may be deafening.