How Serious Is City Hall About Keeping Trucks On The Truck Route?

Fresh from State Street, trying to get back on the route!

Probably the most common intersection in town that allows trucks to stray off of the truck route is at State and Green, where trucks headed into town on Green Street make a wrong turn. GPS often has a lot do with this decision by the drivers.  Here is what the city feels is sufficient to battle GPS and prevent the common occurrence of errant trucks at that intersection:

2 signs on State Street, off of the truck route, reminding truck drivers to "use truck route."  And, in an additional attempt at futility, one of those signs is, for all intents and purposes, completely obscured by a railroad crossing sign.

Sorry, too late!!!  What is a truck driver to do? 

Useless even if it weren't obscured

In the summer of 2020, DPW installed two small signs above the truck route at State Street reminding truck drivers not to turn onto State.  Well over a year ago, wind finally got the best of the sign above the lane of traffic it was intended for.  Since then, just one small sign has been hanging above the other lane of traffic. (The same is true at 3rd and Columbia - the same sign fell off and has not been replaced!) 

2020

2023

What's the big deal if trucks get on State Street instead of remaining on Columbia, you ask?  One of the largest issues of stray trucks is that, unlike other intersections in town, the intersection of 3rd and Columbia is large enough to accommodate enormous turning vehicles.  Trucks and tractor trailers attempting to turn off of (and onto) State, even at 3rd Street, often end up getting into accidents, causing other problems and getting stuck.  The question is:  How serious is City Hall about preventing these problems and issues?

Why would DPW hang a truck route sign and never bother to replace it once it disappears?  Because, of course, the issues related to trucks straying off of the truck route onto State Street and elsewhere is not worth taking seriously to them.  We have a committee for that!  And the police to call!