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DANGEROUS TRUCKS * USA: Oversized ones
* Louisiana - Oversized trucks in French Quarter grinds the gears of some residents
New Orleans,LOUIS,USA -The Times-Picayune, by Richard Rainey -January 07, 2015: -- The narrow streets of the French Quarter, built wide enough to handle a horse-drawn omnibus at best, aren't holding up well to modern times... Residents told the City Council that large semi-trucks, some longer than 70 feet, regularly endanger pedestrians and are decimating lampposts, street signs, sidewalks and overhanging balconies built close to corners in the historic district... Those trucks are just too long to make right-angle turns without taking a piece of the past with them. Several of the trucks have become stuck, requiring police escorts to extract them and holding up traffic in the busy neighborhood for hours... The heavy trucks also vibrate streets and foundations, very likely jeopardizing the stability of centuries-old buildings... They asked the council to consider new laws that would limit supply trucks in the French Quarter to no longer than 31 feet. Most beer, liquor and delivery trucks that frequent that neighborhood are well within that size, Cavett said. She reached out to the Port of New Orleans, which had begun warning truck drivers leaving its wharves to avoid the city's central neighborhood...
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