No One Should Have To Endure The Trucks On The Truck ROUTES! This Is Pure Insanity!

If you don't live along the truck route you probably have no idea how destructive, distracting, polluting, crazy-making and unsustainable it really is.  This is especially true near an intersection of the route where enormous truck engines roar as they begin to move an obscene amount of weight forward from a stop.   As long as Hudson allows trucks of all lengths, sizes and weights to roll through town to get somewhere else, Hudson will never reach its potential.  In short, the route is killing us slowly but surely.

While the pictures shown here were not taken along the truck route, most of State Street is the truck route alternative.  It's the daily alternative for trucks and tractor trailers which stray off the route daily intentionally or not, as well as the alternative when the truck route is shut down for repairs.  Seeing and hearing trucks and tractor trailers on State Street that are not supposed to be there is not at all uncommon, but this week it has been busy with trucks and big, heavy rigs forced to use the alternative while DPW has been busy with yet another busted pipe under Columbia Street.  For the past three days, the constant truck and tractor trailer traffic on State above Third Street has been nothing short of obscene, as seen and heard from sidewalks and from inside houses (WITH WINDOWS CLOSED!!!).  Thankfully (at least for this State Street resident), it looks like things should be back to "normal" starting tomorrow since DPW has finished their pipe repair and patched their hole on the truck route.  (More bumpity bump!)  There should be no "normal" amount of truck and tractor trailer traffic passing through town on any street.  Not in Hudson, and not anywhere else on this planet.  

The truck route was closed for four days this week. 
When will the next busted pipe below Columbia occur?
The trucks break the pipes!!!!!

The longer the truck route remains in Hudson, the more it becomes normalized and the more we just shrug our shoulders about it, accepting it as part of life in this little city.  Apathy, a great way to make a city unlivable and destroy any sense of community that might exist.

If you are interested in starting a citizen's movement to stop Hudson's truck route (if only for a little while) which may include being arrested for standing in the street stopping traffic, please email me at huston.bill@gmail.com.  Civil disobedience is the only way to force the issue.  Kamal Johnson, the common council, the truck route committee, Tom Depietro, Rob Perry, et al. -- they aren't getting it done.  We can't rely on any of them to do what needs to be done.