There Is More Than One Way For Tractor Trailers To Get To Hawthorne Foods And Harney Teas, Both Located At The Bottom Of Our Second Steepest Street. Guess What?

Nobody at City Hall -- not one person -- gives one flying crap how many full or empty tractor trailers avoid the truck route on Front and Dock Streets, instead heading down that steep 2nd Street hill.   No one at City Hall -- including our DPW Superintendent and our Police Chief -- cares if 12 tractor trailers a day head down that hill.  Ask the people who live in those houses if they care about trucks using the hill regularly, and they just might paint a different picture.

Friday, August 9th

Where is the one fucking sign telling truck drivers NOT TO FUCKING TURN OFF OF THE FUCKING TRUCK ROUTE AT 2ND STREET SO THAT NO FUCKING TRUCKS HEAD DOWN THE SECOND STREET HILL WHERE A PAIR OF INHABITED HOUSES AND THE DOG PARK ARE LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM AND NEAR WHERE A NEW PARK AND NEW HOUSING ARE COMING SOON?

Not from around these parts, are ya' mister!

Can you spot the NO TRUCKS sign?
Neither did the driver, apparently.  Think 
the city cares that he drove past that little sign?

The driver waited at the top of the hill for at least one minute before CREEPING ALL THE WAY DOWN ABOUT AS SLOWLY AS HIS BRAKES WOULD ALLOW HIM TO.

It had to have taken the driver 30 seconds to reach the bottom.  He was probably ready to poop his pants.

No one from City Hall - not Robert Perry, Mishanda Franklin nor Kamal Johnson -- lives in either one of the houses shown above.  How would they feel about all the daily truck traffic headed down a steep hill toward their house if any of the three lived at the bottom?

At the bottom of the hill, with the truck stopped once again and after asking the driver if he was lost, he handed me his phone and said, "I'm trying to get here."  On the screen of his phone was not the website for Hawthorne Foods, but the Google result of a search for Hawthorne Foods Hudson.  I smiled but did not laugh, though I wanted to.  I pointed straight ahead and told him "It's right there; you're almost there."  I told him that when he was done, he should not head back up the hill he had just descended, pointing out the truck route signs at the intersection directing trucks to turn onto Dock Street.  He thanked me and made it to the sauerkraut factory without incident.

Then, today, I came across this big rig on State Street, likely having turned off of Green Street a minute or two before we crossed paths in the 300 block of the Alternate Truck Route (ATR).

Robert Perry, Mishanda Franklin and, possibly, Shane Bower are all aware that trucks and tractor trailers use the ATR, but like on Columbia one block away, there is no sign for truck drivers at 2nd street keeping them moving straight ahead and OFF OF THE STEEP AND DANGEROUS HILL NOT MEANT FOR TRUCKS OF ANY SIZE, ESPECIALLY TRACTOR TRAILER RIGS.  Why is this?  Because none of them live at the bottom of the 2nd street hill and none of them give a crap about much of anything related to road safety or houses and lives being demolished by a 20-ton runaway vehicle.

This driver knew exactly where he was going, probably fully aware that he had skipped the true truck route, just like he does every time delivering or picking up at Hawthorne at the bottom of our second steepest street with the useless, faded, little NO TRUCKS sign at the top.

Arrival!  Once again by way of the ATR and down
the hill that the city doesn't give a shit about at all.

This is one of those joke signs,
not meant to be abided by anyone, right?
Another one of DPW's prank signs?