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DANGEROUS CARGOES * USA - Many truckers skirting the rules
Hazardous cargo banned from I-30 'canyon,' but enforcement laxDallas,TX,USA -The Dallas Morning News, by Steve Mcgonigle -Dec. 12, 2006: -- Every day, tractor-trailers hauling gasoline and other hazardous cargo pass through the congested, high-walled "canyon" of Interstate 30 in downtown Dallas.
The narrow, mile-long stretch has been off-limits to hazardous haulers since 1978 because of the difficulty rescuers would have reaching the area. But it is a city ordinance that Dallas police seldom enforce, and truckers know it... An estimated 132,000 people work downtown, and Capt. Ted Padgett, head of the Dallas Fire-Rescue hazardous material response team, said tall buildings, wind currents and the area's warmer temperatures make it susceptible to a toxic plume... Evacuations have not been common, but they have occurred... One of the biggest was in August 1989, when 6,000 people were forced from an area east of downtown after a truck hauling hazardous chemicals overturned near Woodall Rodgers. The truck driver was killed, but there were no other injuries... Tim Raiter, an Arlington truck driver, said some hazmat haulers will continue to ignore the ban on downtown travel until officers go back on the road...
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