Sentences with phrase «truck traffic»

With such an enormous volume of truck traffic, it is all but inevitable that accidents will occur.

Increased truck traffic also means that the likelihood of being involved in a truck - related accident is greater.

Many restrictions on heavily polluting truck traffic, for instance, were extended months after the games closed, the report notes.

Other sources of stress can be an influx of temporary workers, seeing industrial development in what used to be a rural area, heavy truck traffic and concerns about declining home prices.

Sampson is also concerned about a proposal, that Cuomo has not rejected, that would raise the tolls on truck traffic on the Thruway by 45 %, which he says will put the trucking industry «at a competitive disadvantage».

the «bomb» train and diesel truck traffic in the South End as an ongoing example in which communities feel overlooked for an economic benefit.

The Buffalo Common Council could weigh in Tuesday afternoon on secret talks federal officials reportedly had about removing truck traffic from the Peace Bridge.

«We have reason to believe [my family members] have suffered from cancer and other life threatening illnesses as a result of their exposure,» he said, citing the «bomb» train and diesel truck traffic in the South End as an ongoing example in which communities feel overlooked for an economic benefit.

And I've heard folks say that since there already is enough gas coming out of PA's ground, there's no need for us to put up with truck traffic through the Catskills.

West side residents and environmentalists who want commercial truck traffic banned on the Peace Bridge presented their case in Elmwood Village for the first time Wednesday night at Lafayette Presbyterian Church.

Since Mukasa's research, a group of west side residents have been fighting to get commercial truck traffic banned on the Peace Bridge.

Assemblyman Gary Finch hopes to avoid an increase in truck traffic through his district.

Specifically, the group says it is concerned about truck traffic contributing to high asthma rates in the area and referenced the Legionnaire's outbreak that had recently hit Bronx.

Environmentalists reacted with anger after The Buffalo News reported that federal officials considered but quickly abandoned plans to remove truck traffic from the Peace Bridge.

A port would mean less truck traffic, less road wear - and - tear, better air quality, more jobs, more marketability for local goods shipped off Long Island, and a better way to get rid of our garbage.

Waterfront commerce also reduces truck traffic, which improves air quality.

As WBFO's Chris Caya reports - a new agreement's in place designed to speed truck traffic across the span.

The plan would help the city move more garbage onto barges to cut down long - haul truck traffic and would decrease the burdens on some outer - borough neighborhoods, such as the South Bronx, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, that complained about having more than their fair share of dumps.

A more direct route for truck traffic from the port, the $ 663 million Port Tunnel Project, was finished last year.

Many of the 15 crossings are at busy, multiple lane intersections in neighborhoods with significant truck traffic or have tracks crossings roadways on a diagonal.

These cases are common in Ontario given all of the busy truck traffic on our highways, in particular on Highway 401 which has one of the busiest stretches of truck congestion and activity in Canada.

Psychosocial stress, exposure to air pollution including truck traffic, sleep disruption and changes to socioeconomic status are all biologically plausible pathways for unconventional natural gas development to affect health.

Third lane «truck lanes» have been added to ascending hills to keep slower truck traffic from impeding traffic on the steep inclines.

The city remains a transportation hub today sitting astride interstate highways 75 and 16, two busy truck traffic routes.

They are aiming to significantly reduce the impact of the processing plant on the local community, including a major reduction of odors and truck traffic currently present and at the same time making the company more energy self - sufficent

He'd also like to see truck traffic shifted from local streets to the Belt Parkway, where it's not currently permitted.

A new study indicates that establishing commercial waste collection zones in New York City could reduce sanitation truck traffic and air pollution, according to the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and the Business Integrity Commission (BIC).

The freeway, constructed by Robert Moses, is the city's segment of busy Interstate 95 and is a major source of truck traffic into and through the city.

Also Friday, Cuomo announced that the Cross Harbor Freight Movement Project, a plan to move train cargo between New Jersey and New York, had reached a milestone: issuance of a request for proposals to conduct an environmental impact study for the project, which aims to ease truck traffic.

Mecca said moving the commercial truck traffic away from residential neighborhoods is the most logical solution.

That study also found that when truck traffic decreased on the Peace Bridge after the Sept. 11 attacks, so did cases of respiratory diseases in the west side.

Collins also used his visit to the Peace Bridge to advocate for two changes in the way trucks pay for their entry to the United States, to make truck traffic flow efficiently.

One resident described truck traffic in the area as «fierce.»

Volunteers including people from AVillage Inc pitched in for a diesel truck traffic count, finding nearly a thousand big rigs a day pass through the neighborhood.

WBFO's Chris Jamele and Artvoice editor Geoff Kelly cover those races and they look at the latest study regarding truck traffic at the Peace Bridge in this week's Press Pass.

The project is supposed to ease traffic and cut air pollution but that may be increasing right now because a pilot project to ease pollution by pre-clearing truck traffic in Fort Erie has ended and trucks are now clearing on the Buffalo end.

The study does have a shortcoming: It looks only at commuters; it does not examine truck traffic, people making occasional trips, or people taking for - hire vehicles outside of commuting.

He cites opposition by residents of Dusinberre Road to heavy truck traffic passing through their neighborhood en route to Steve's Lane as an example of a controversial facet of business - related zoning.

Additionally, increasing Thruway tolls is a massive unfunded State mandate that will result in greater truck traffic on local roads, causing a negative impact on their safety with increased road maintenance costs borne directly by local taxpayers.

The railyard proposal would bring more truck traffic to the west Long Beach neighborhood, but it is designed to reduce the volume of trucks traveling along the 24 miles of freeway from the ports to the railroad's yard in East Los Angeles.

There are several in our city and there is a huge amount of truck traffic which slows down allowing exposure to particulate air pollution even more.»

Disturbance from clearing oil pads, new housing sites and all the extra truck traffic on unpaved roads means dirtier snow.

The sooner we build more rail systems, including better freight rail, the sooner we can relieve some of the pressure from those failing bridges by taking a lot of the car and truck traffic off of them.

Weighing the long - term environmental consequences of spills, water consumption, methane migration, waste production and disposal, truck traffic etc. is not simple — it requires manpower, reporting, transparency, and enforcement.

Fracking opened up vast swaths of once - quiet forest and farmland to the constant grinding of truck traffic heading to drilling rigs that operate all day and night, poisoning the air with diesel fumes and sometimes spilling toxic drilling fluids onto fields and into streams.

Started as part - time Security Guard patrolling building and ground and processing truck traffic through gates.

Some residents of Syracuse's western suburbs said they fear any change to the Interstate 81 sending traffic around the city would ultimately increase truck traffic on roads that run through small villages and rural towns.