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Broad Street residents say heavy truck traffic is damaging pavement and harming safety
Summary
Residents reported heavy truck traffic shaking houses, cracking pavement and endangering pedestrians on Broad Street, and urged the city to remove the street from truck routing and take immediate mitigations including lower speed limits and four‑way stops.
Residents from Broad Street told the council repeated heavy truck traffic has caused early pavement failure and raised safety concerns for pedestrians and homeowners.
"This road can't handle the amount of semi, truck traffic it sees every day," said Jean Javalier during public comment, describing vibration, noise and pavement cracking only months after a recent project. She urged the city to "look ahead until you can come up with a plan that migrates this, mitigates this problem" and said Broad Street should not be a truck route.
Donna Atwell, who lives on North Broad Street, described observing trucks violating regulations and recommended immediate steps: reduce the speed limit to 25 mph between 11th and 23rd streets, install four‑way stops at Linden and 19th, and pursue appropriate signage or approvals from the Nebraska Department of Roads to reroute truck traffic to Highway 77. "The most obvious 1st step is to reduce the speed limit on North Broad Street between 11th And 23rd Street to 25 miles per hour," she said. The council did not take immediate action on these specific requests during this meeting; the concerns were recorded in public comment for council follow‑up.
