Golden Cove Truck Exclusion Unlikely
The town will seek alternate traffic solutions with help from the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments.
An exclusion on heavy trucks on Golden Cove Road is unlikely thanks to advice given to the Chelmsford Board of Selectmen received from the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments. The board’s Vice Chairman Matthew Hanson updated the town on the status of the potential exclusion after discussing its feasibility with NMCOG. The potential truck exclusion gained no traction with NMCOG. “The state would most likely only grant that [truck exclusion] in extremely serious situations where there were a number of serious truck incidents recorded on that road,” Hanson explained. “We discussed this for probably about an hour with them; they shared some of the same concerns as the whole board has expressed already. “They thought that they might be …
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Ken Glotfelty
4:22 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
How many? Does it really matter? Is there a quota? If its none, we want to keep it that way. If it's 1, that's 1 too many. Personally, I have almost hit several crossing the bike trail. Luckily, I know it's there and slow way down when approaching; unlike the truckers cutting through that "try to catch air" -- an actual quote from a long term resident -- when going over the hill at the corner of … more ›