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Residents urge action; supervisors request state truck restriction for Trinity Church Road
Summary
After residents described frequent heavy-truck traffic and a narrow, substandard bridge on Trinity Church Road, the Southampton County Board voted 4–1 to ask the Commonwealth Transportation Board to restrict through truck traffic on Trinity Church Road and designate Ivor Road as the alternate route (Wakefield Road removed from the request).
Residents from Trinity Church Road and adjoining neighborhoods filled the board room on Feb. 24 to press the supervisors for action after months of heavy tractor-trailer and logging-truck traffic on the narrow, largely unlined rural road.
Several residents presented measurements, video or camera counts showing sustained truck traffic and said the bridge near the curve is too narrow for modern tractor-trailers. "I have camera pictures of 12 to 20 fully loaded tractor trailers going up and down Trinity Church Road, basically 24 hours a day," said William Heitzer, who lives at the corner where Trinity Church Road meets…
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