Good story, Will. A few years ago I got fed up with the dozens of trucks using Beech Streets every day, despite the fact that it is posted with "No Trucks" allowed signs. So I spent a whole day documenting every truck that came down the street (except for those making deliveries to my neighbors) with company names, what time they went by and in some cases, photos. There were about 125 trucks in just 10 hours. I reported what I found to a meeting of the Porter Square Neighbors Association and the PSNA president forwarded the information to the police department. Lo and behold, two motorcycle cops showed up one morning the next week and started ticketing the trucks. They did this off and on for a month. Word obviously got out among the truckers, because the truck traffic disappeared and mostly hasn't come back. It was a win-win: the city collected some extra revenue, the street is a lot quieter and the truck drivers avoid tickets by avoiding Beech.
Good story, Will. A few years ago I got fed up with the dozens of trucks using Beech Streets every day, despite the fact that it is posted with "No Trucks" allowed signs. So I spent a whole day documenting every truck that came down the street (except for those making deliveries to my neighbors) with company names, what time they went by and in some cases, photos. There were about 125 trucks in just 10 hours. I reported what I found to a meeting of the Porter Square Neighbors Association and the PSNA president forwarded the information to the police department. Lo and behold, two motorcycle cops showed up one morning the next week and started ticketing the trucks. They did this off and on for a month. Word obviously got out among the truckers, because the truck traffic disappeared and mostly hasn't come back. It was a win-win: the city collected some extra revenue, the street is a lot quieter and the truck drivers avoid tickets by avoiding Beech.