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Residents say Broad Street isn’t built for heavy truck traffic; urge speed reductions and routing changes
Summary
Residents described cracking pavement, vibration, and safety risks from heavy truck traffic on Broad Street and urged the city to lower speed limits, add four-way stops, redirect truck routes and enforce violations to prevent injury and further roadway failure.
Residents from Broad Street told the council that heavy truck traffic is damaging the road and producing safety hazards for neighbors.
Jean Javalier said daily semi traffic is causing shaking, cracking and noise and that a thin asphalt layer over a failing concrete base cannot withstand thousands of tons rolling over it. "This road can't handle the amount of semi truck traffic it sees every day," Javalier said, and asked the city to consider removing Broad Street from truck-route status.
Don Atwell described repeated traffic violations and near misses, and urged measured actions to reduce risk: lower the speed limit on North Broad between 11th and 23rd to 25 mph, install four-way stops at Lynen and 19th Streets, and pursue signage or legal remedies to direct trucks to Highway 77. Atwell framed those steps as leading indicators that could prevent serious injury.
Speakers asked the council for a plan to mitigate long-term pavement deterioration and to coordinate enforcement with county or state partners where local manpower is limited.
Next steps: residents urged the council to prioritize a traffic and pavement mitigation plan for Broad Street and to explore speed-limit changes and targeted enforcement.
