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I know it would require assistance from the state highway department, but if we had signs with flashing lights at entry points to downtown "no through trucks, no engine breaking past this point, speed limit through downtown, these are strictly enforced " might help deter through traffic from going around the square. Signs would probably need to be before both ends of bypass, at Parkway exits, Hwy 80, etc. but it might help.

It might require multiple signs at each site, but that, plus a few citizens willing to chase and pull over offending traffic might get the word out among the trucking community that it is a hassle to go through downtown Columbia.

It needs to be posted all commercial vehicles have to take the bypass. Unless you have a bill of lading to make a delivery you need to be on the bypass. They do it in Cincinnati, they do it in Atlanta, a lot of cities do that. It needs to be posted. There could actually be a fine issued if there's a commercial vehicle using the downtown area without a local bill of lading.

I drove cross country for Stephens pipe and steel. I drove a tri-axle dump truck in Indianapolis for years. Commercial vehicles are prohibited all the time from downtown areas it just has to be posted and enacted. If they have a bill of lading for delivery they are allowed in the downtown area.

You'll be surprised how fast that will spread on the CB between truck drivers especially once fines are starting to be imposed. And it's not by axle it's if it's defined as a commercial vehicle. Atlanta Cincinnati and even a lot of small towns prohibit it if they have a bypass. Which we now do. Post it coming into town on each end of the bypass. As soon as there's tickets being issued it will be discussed on the CB :-)

There's apps for truckers with their own GPS. And I would think that it would take them through the bypass if they were using the truckers GPS. But if it was county, city law I'm sure it would be stressed on there. 119 between Harlem and Whitesburg was totally shut down to all commercial vehicles.

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In regards to the damage of the courthouse, wasn't there talk a while back about just removing those additions? So why bother to repair?

I live in Adair County, but work in Albany (Clinton County). One day at work, I commented about the big trucks coming through downtown (which I could not understand them coming through as it is difficult to believe that many 18 wheelers, cement trucks, log trucks, etc. had any business coming through downtown) and one of the ladies that I work with replied that if these truck drivers were using GPS that a lot of the time it would take them on routes that make no sense for a big truck to be taking, and that the company that her husband worked for would not allow them to use GPS for that exact reason-- it did not know to tell the truck driver what route was best to take based on the size of his vehicle.

Sometimes the shortest route is not the fastest, nor the easiest to take, and someone who does not know the area depending on an electronic device may be routed onto a road that does not make sense for them to take. Maybe that is one advantage we have with good old fashioned road maps and atlases, you could at least get an idea of the available routes and which ones seemed to make the most sense.

I am not sure trucks can be banned from town, due to the roads being state highways that are regulated by Federal laws.

As engine (jake) brakes are a noise nuisance, especially for us folk that live on Jamestown St and somewhat on Burksville St. I attend Columbia Christian Church and occasionally we will hear a truck engine brake while we are having service. It would be nice if the City Council would enact an Engine Brake law and enforce it.

If such a law was passed and it along with speeding was enforced, I think it would cause some of the through truck traffic to use the Bypass thus relieve some of our downtown traffic congestion, which in turns creates safer street for everyone.

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