Description
Large Semi trucks repeatedly come down Otis st. Car carriers, 18 wheeled vehicles. Otis st is narrow and absolutely unsuited to commercial vehicle traffic. This happens multiple times every day. The 18-wheel trucks are heavy, creating potholes and narrowly missing cars, running over sidewalks, creating gouges in the soil, ruining pipes, sidewalks. It seems like the trucks GPSs are routing them down Otis, rather than the much wider Linden St one block to the south. There needs to be a way to communicate with GPS routing like Google, etc. to change routing to reflect the more appropriate Linden Street route. Please contact all GPS routing companies to avoid Otis, as this is destructive to our street.
also asked...
Q. Is your request regarding roadways or roadway signage, please provide details for your request.
A. We need signage stating "NO TRUCKS" at the entrance to Otis Street at Union Ave.
A. We need signage stating "NO TRUCKS" at the entrance to Otis Street at Union Ave.
Q. Is your request regarding Traffic Planning and Regulation, please provide details for your request:
A. We need signage stating "NO TRUCKS" at the entrance to Otis Street at Union Ave.
A. We need signage stating "NO TRUCKS" at the entrance to Otis Street at Union Ave.
2 Comments
Framingham, MA (Verified Official)
Closed Adam Kiel (Registered User)
This would be a issue for the Traffic Commission. They can be contacted at the following email address: trafficcommission@framinghamma.gov. At your request, they may be able to add this to a future agenda item and bring it up for discussion. If they decide to move forward with this, a study would need to be performed and data would need to be collected. Once that is complete, a petition would need to be submitted to MassDOT. If MassDOT chooses to accept this request, only then could "No Truck" signage be installed.
There are several exemptions to this exclusion. They shall not apply to heavy commercial vehicles going to or coming from places upon said streets for the purpose of making deliveries of goods, materials, or merchandise to or similar collections from abutting land or buildings or adjacent streets or ways to which access cannot otherwise be gained; or to vehicles used in connection with the construction, maintenance
and repair of said streets or public utilities therein; or to Federal, State, Municipal or public service corporation owned vehicles.