Council Bluffs resident urges county action over fast-moving trucks on Wabash Road

A Council Bluffs resident told the Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors that traffic on Wabash Road near her home has become dangerous because of frequent, high-speed truck convoys and dust from nearby activity.

"It is terrible," Paula Danker said, giving her address and describing trucks "doing 65, 70 miles an hour just flying" past her deck and using engine brakes on a curve. She said vehicles frequently back up at a nearby entrance, her family and neighbors must pull into other driveways to collect mail because stopping on the road is unsafe, and she has video of the trucks. "We've had numerous people [crash] around the curb," she said and asserted there had been deaths at the corner this year.

Danker requested safety measures including lighting, speed reduction, and driveway protections. County staff acknowledged prior discussion of the issue and indicated the county engineer would be involved. Staff noted that installing lights at the intersections could require the county to assume responsibility for them and that some traffic remedies might fall under state jurisdiction (interstate access). The chair said he would talk to the county engineer about potential remedies and suggested increased enforcement could be considered.

The board did not take immediate formal action during the public-comment period but thanked the resident and said staff would follow up. The transcript references "Google" as a nearby project and includes differing spellings of the resident's name earlier in the record; the resident herself gave her full name on the record as Paula Danker.