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NEIGHBORHOOD COMPLAINS * USA - Many factors bring truckers into town, but no one is required to use bypass
Fatal semi/pedestrian accident
Crookston,MN,USA -The Crookston Daily Times, by Mike Christopherson -September 19, 2008: -- If the investigation into last week's fatal semi/pedestrian accident in downtown Crookston determines that the driver of the semi was somehow in the wrong, it won't be because he came through town instead of using the truck bypass..."To my knowledge, there's no requirement that any trucks take the bypasses," said Crookston Police Chief Tim Motherway. "You get drivers unfamiliar with the area and they might drive right past the bypasses not knowing what they are. But they aren't breaking the law when they do that"... If the investigation into last week's fatal semi/pedestrian accident in downtown Crookston determines that the driver of the semi was somehow in the wrong, it won't be because he came through town instead of using the truck bypass... (Mike Christopherson, photographer - PLAN B? - Thursday afternoon, this semi carrying an oversized load had to pull over on University Avenue because its cargo - a part for a dryer unit - at 18 feet tall, would have hit the railroad underpass on Sixth Street near Arby's. In the photo, the driver of the security company pickup escorting the semi speaks to a Minnesota State Patrol trooper, far left. The security representative said the semi was coming into Crookston on U.S. Highway 2 East but had to detour because a section of the eastbound lanes is closed due to cracking in the road caused by soil instability near the Red Lake River. The detour route brought the semi into town, where it became clear the cargo was too big to make it through downtown. About a half-hour later, the semi turned around and left Crookston on Highway 2 West) * Residents fear the worst from intermodals
Joliet,IL,USA -The Joliet Herald News, by STEWART WARREN SWARREN -September 21, 2008: -- At the CenterPoint Intermodal Center, the diesel trucks go on forever... In a single hour, hundreds rumble through Elwood's 2,200-acre industrial park -- and the place is open around the clock, seven days a week. Some bring cargo in, others haul it out... The yard is a transfer point for goods, a spot to shift materials from a train to a truck, or a truck to a train... When it opened in October 2002, CenterPoint was the economic pride and joy of Will County. It brought the promise of more development to sleepy little Elwood. There were hundreds and then thousands of new jobs. At the time, everyone was high on CenterPoint... In the years since, other intermodals have been proposed for Will County and neighboring Grundy County. One is coming to Crete; another is in the works for Wilmington Township; the planning continues for the Seneca I-80 Railport; and CenterPoint is opening a sister intermodal south of Joliet... But the atmosphere has changed... (Photo by John Patsch - Laurie Summers (left) and Jill Hornick are concerned about the intermodal that is planned for Crete. They worry about the traffic and the proximity to schools and homes) * Collisions persist between trucks and a hard place
West Harrison,NY,USA -The Lower Hudson Journal news -September 22, 2008: -- More than once a day, a tractor-trailer rig or some other truck gets onto one of Westchester County's winding parkways, where they're not allowed... Most of the drivers get right back off or get stopped by county police, who ticket them and tell them that the parkways are for passenger vehicles only. But some truck drivers - 29 so far this year - don't learn the lesson until they find out the hard way... The very hard way. As hard as the stone and steel of the parkways' low overpasses, which can rip the top off a passing trailer before a driver can stop his truck... Meanwhile, the accidents continue to happen. County police Capt. John Hodges, who has been on the county police force about 25 years, said it seems to be happening more frequently. That may be in part because drivers are relying on global positioning system devices and direction-generating Web sites that don't note which roads prohibit commercial traffic... (Photo by Danielle De Souza/The Journal News - This tractor-trailer was badly damaged when it struck the King Street overpass on the Hutchinson River Parkway last month. It was one of 29 trucks to strike a bridge or overpass on the region's parkways this year) * Violations increase at I-95 truck weigh station
Greenwich,CONN,USA -The Courant/Associated Press -September 22, 2008: -- Violations recorded among big rigs checked at the Interstate 95 weigh station in Greenwich more than doubled after state police expanded the inspection hours, according to new state figures... The station, one of six in the state, recorded 5,236 safety and equipment violations in tractor-trailers and other large trucks in the first six months of 2008. That generated more than $1.2 million in fines... By comparison, the same period in 2007 produced 2,359 violations and $642,000 in fines... The 2008 boost came after Gov. M. Jodi Rell and lawmakers ordered weigh stations to be open more often... The new figures bolster the arguments of transportation advocates and others who have pushed for years to expand weigh station hours, said Jill Kelly, co-chairwoman of the Connecticut Citizens Transportation Lobby...
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