0 a system of shared telephone lines that allows services to be provided to many people at the same time:
Open communications architecture allows companies to reduce costs through new trunking services .
1 a cover that is used to hide and protect the electrical wires in a building:
The timescale for the de-trunking depends on the possible need for a public inquiry.
The council had actively sought this change, which is referred to as de-trunking, because the road thereby ceases to be a trunk road.
De-trunking of non-core routes will be phased over a number of years with the first significant transfers taking place in 2001–02.
It is under consideration for trunking in due course, but does not at present have a place in the firm trunk road programme.
The two local residents associations and 16 individual local residents who have written are opposed to trunking.
De-trunking has taken place in the north-west and other areas with the agreement of local authorities.
That was why it was essential that the existing right to a public inquiry before trunking should be preserved.
As a matter of urgency, a decision must be made on the de-trunking.
