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Residents urge traffic calming on Broad Street, cite truck weight and noise
Summary
Two North Broad Street residents urged the Council to adopt traffic calming after years of heavy truck traffic, pointing to a posted 15-ton limit and neighborhood disruption from loud, high-speed trucks.
Jane Chapler, a North Broad Street resident, told the council she and neighbors want Broad Street treated like a neighborhood rather than a high-speed bypass. "We're not against truck traffic. We know it fuels our economy, but we are against Broadstreet being used as a high speed bypass," Chapler said, noting homes predate the U.S. numbered highway system and residents pay for the city's upkeep.
Don Atwell, who said he has lived at 1650 North Broad for more than 45 years, urged the city to ensure mapping apps know posted weight limits and asked whether city officials have contacted services like Google Maps to correct routing. Atwell pointed to existing 15-ton signs and noted that "That's 30,000 pounds" and that many tractor-trailers exceed that weight, which he said contributes to pavement deterioration. He also referenced recent local investments including a $62,000,000 soft bypass and a $2.5 million North Broad Street rehabilitation need to underscore the cost to taxpayers.
Mayor Dev Sukran and staff made no formal commitment to a specific engineering fix during the public comment period, but the speakers asked council to pursue a traffic calming plan and to engage with local businesses and routing services to reduce through-truck speed and noise.
