Council gears up to reroute trucks
SANDPOINT — City officials hope a new truck route approved by the City Council on Wednesday will create a better flow of traffic through Sandpoint.
Following community concern about truck traffic downtown, the council initiated conversations to determine a route that would keep commercial trucks out of the downtown core. The new route, which will require amendments to the Multi-Modal Transportation Plan, will exclude First Avenue, and Superior, Church, and Pine streets, Holly Ellis, Sandpoint construction manager, said during her presentation.
Instead of using Pine Street to travel from the Long Bridge west through town, trucks will be directed to continue on U.S. 95 and take the exit for U.S. 2. Changing the truck route also means clarifying the route in city code and defining commercial trucks as larger than 26,000 pounds.
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