* Ontario - Keep big trucks on Trans-Canada
-- Big trucks on residential roads has again come before Thunder Bay city council and this time the matter will be dealt with... Like many Canadian cities, Thunder Bay has grown along portions of its former highways that have become secondary to new routes for the Trans-Canada Highway. Lakeshore Drive and West Arthur Street, once the main highways in and out of Thunder Bay, are now largely residential in nature. The Thunder Bay Expressway (Highway 11/17) passes through the city but truckers prefer the shortest routes possible. This highway has been the subject of repeated city efforts to keep transport trucks off. An idea to erect signs at either end was quashed by the province and earlier thoughts of weight restrictions went nowhere... But the continuing growth of highway truck traffic through Thunder Bay, wear and tear on roads in a city with a serious road repair deficit, and safety concerns for residents who live along popular truck routes have prompted council to order preparation of a bylaw on weight restrictions directed at the routes in question... The Trans-Canada is designed to accommodate them and that is where they should stay. We depend on the goods they bring but city taxpayers shouldn’t have to fear for their safety and pay for the premature deterioration of local roads by heavy trucks with 53-foot trailers...
(Photo: A semi at Thunder Bay Harbour) -- Thunder Bay, ONT, CAN - The Chronicle Herald - March 11, 2016Labels: infrastructures discussions
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