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Committee to deploy counters and ask resident to gather truck counts
Summary
The Highway Safety Committee confirmed plans to use speed-and-volume counters and asked a local resident (Nancy) to collect manual truck counts and license-plate observations to support possible no-through-truck restrictions or other routing actions.
Staff reported that Southern New Hampshire Planning would deploy speed-and-volume counters and that the committee requested both counts and speed data to evaluate truck routing and speed-limit impacts. A member clarified the difference between single-line counters (counts only) and dual-line devices (which also record speed), and staff agreed to coordinate counter placement with Benjie.
Residents who previously hosted counters said truck traffic dropped while devices were in place and resumed after the counters were removed; one participant said, "the 2 weeks the counters were up, no trucks. Soon as the counters came down, trucks came back." The committee asked Nancy to collect manual counts at specified dates and for staff to report counter deployment and results at the next meeting.
