Editor: It’s long past time to close 16 Avenue to the trucking industry, especially and specifically to dump trucks. This is not a highway, it’s a two-lane country road with a speed limit of 60 km/h.
I drive this road to and from work every day, and have had several close encounters involving dump trucks, but not a single one with any other type of transport truck.
I would estimate that 90 per cent of the dump trucks that use this road are travelling a minimum of 75 km/h, loaded. I have been passed by them and have seen them passing in oncoming traffic numerous times.
I don’t see any reasons for a truck, loaded or not, to pass a passenger vehicle in a 60 km/h zone.
I don’t know where all these trucks are always going on 16 Avenue, and why always in such a hurry? Is it to the “landfill farms?”
Maybe it’s time to put a halt to that type of business, or change the way the drivers in this industry get paid, but I digress.
This route has become a frightening road to travel on over the past five or six years, and I don’t believe that I am the only person who feels this way. I wonder how the people who live on this road feel about it.
What’s wrong with 176 Street, Fraser Highway, 200 Street or Highway 10? There are so many actual truck routes out there. These trucks need to get off the country roads.
Beatrice Jakob,
White Rock