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Hudson committee to ask council to remove through truck traffic from Third and Columbia Streets
Summary
A City of Hudson Charter Committee reviewed a TransTech pavement study and agreed to ask the common council to consider a resolution closing Third and Columbia Streets to through truck traffic while allowing local deliveries; the study found higher pavement damage and higher lifecycle costs on the route that passes through the city center.
HUDSON — At a Jan. 20 Charter Committee meeting, members agreed to ask the City of Hudson common council to consider a resolution closing Third and Columbia streets to through truck traffic while continuing to allow trucks that make local deliveries.
The committee said the recommendation is driven by health, safety and quality-of-life concerns for residents on streets that see heavy truck use and by a pavement study from TransTech that found one candidate route through the city is structurally weaker and far more expensive to maintain than an alternate route.
TransTech’s analysis compared two 1.3-mile candidate routes. Committee presenter Jason, committee member, said TransTech recommended “full replacement of Route 1, including the sub layer, which would give it a 20 year life.” He told the committee a local contractor provided rough cost estimates: complete…
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