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City study: North End streets no place for trucks with hazardous cargo
By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 7:17am
NorthEndWaterfront.com gets briefed on what's in a consultant's report on re-routing of trucks along Atlantic and Commercial avenues. In fact, the report goes further - urging all hazmat trucks to stay out of the city altogether and stick to 95 and 128 unless they're making deliveries to local businesses.
The city had banned hazardous cargoes from the North End, but the feds overruled the city last year. Truckers want the right to detour through the city around I-93, from which they're now banned because much of the highway is in a tunnel, from which trucks carrying potentially explosive materials are banned.
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So it's alright for hazmat
So it's alright for hazmat trucks to go through other communities to deliver to Boston, but they can't go through Boston to deliver to other communities?
As I recall, people's homes
As I recall, people's homes are not a few feet away from Routes 95 and 128 as they are on Commercial Street.
As I recall no pedestrians
As I recall no pedestrians cross Routes 95 and 128 to get the park or go to eat.
As I recall no pedestrians
As I recall no pedestrians cross Routes 95 and 128 to get the park or go to eat.
As I Recall
As I recall, Boston is much more dense and thus more of a concern.
Why not stay on the Surface Artery?
Why would trucks be going around the eastern edge of the North End on Commercial Street, instead of staying on the Surface Art... I mean Greenway?
When Cambridge attempted a night ban on through trucks a few years ago, they made an exception for hazardous cargoes, since basically the only non-tunnel route from the Everett tank farms to the Mass Pike involves local streets through Cambridge. But the whole night ban was quickly overturned.