Today, one illegally parked car on Park Place at Columbia caused a giant Colarusso flatbed to get stuck while turning onto Park. Officer Larry Edelman soon arrived and helped the Colarusso driver back up to negotiate the turn successfully. While the flatbed was stuck and maneuvering, a giant, equally long Colarusso dump truck was forced to wait at the other end of Park Place before proceeding. Behind that huge and heavy vehicle were two regular sized large dump trucks (not Colarusso's!), probably headed to Galvan's apartment building project on 7th Street.
Oh, the humanity!
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| This is what it has come to -- testing our streets with a Falling Weight Deflectometer! |
Earlier today on Park Place and nearby on Columbia Street, I watched as DPW performed the impact testing of the truck route to see if our streets can handle the horse carriages -- sorry, I mean trucks and tractor trailers -- that pass through town destroying our streets and infrastructure, possibly giving us all cancer and raising our stress levels whether we know it or not.
The question is: if over $32,000 of weight deflectometer testing indicates that some or all of our streets are not made to handle the constant barrage of truck and tractor trailer traffic, what then? Will some other nearby municipality or two suddenly decide they would be glad to handle the trucks, noise and diesel exhaust that we are so accustomed to? What if Greenport or Claverack also pays a company $32,000 to test their roads with a deflectometer and the determination is made that their streets can't handle a truck route either? What then?
And what if Hudson's truck route passes the weight deflectometer testing? What then? Bring on more trucks and tractor trailers weighing tens of thousands of pounds each?
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| From an instructional video on how to evaluate data from a Falling Weight Deflectometer |
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| Testing done at 325 Columbia Street |
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| Tested! Failed or passed, does it matter? |
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| Testing the 700 block of Columbia Street |
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