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Goochland supervisors ask VDOT to bar through-truck traffic on Parkside Village streets
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted to request that the Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board restrict through‑truck traffic on several local streets in the Parkside Village subdivision after residents and staff described increasing cut‑through tractor‑trailer traffic tied to nearby development.
The Goochland County Board of Supervisors on June 3 voted to ask the Virginia Commonwealth Transportation Board to prohibit through‑truck traffic on several local streets in the Parkside Village subdivision, citing resident complaints about tractor‑trailers using the neighborhood as a cut through.
Deputy County Administrator Josh Gillespie presented the request at the board’s public hearing, saying the affected streets total “about 0.71 hundredths of a mile, so less than 1 mile of total streets,” and that VDOT regulations require a local hearing before signs can be posted. Gillespie told the board staff concluded the four statutory criteria for restricting through‑truck…
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