tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603719643814372786.post8373892681579391422..comments2024-03-13T09:44:27.074-05:00Comments on Southwest Chicago Post: City Says It Acts to Cite Overweight TrucksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603719643814372786.post-52397282429911779602013-05-29T18:08:20.319-05:002013-05-29T18:08:20.319-05:00We residents in Archer Heights have had this probl...We residents in Archer Heights have had this problem of overweight semis tearing up are avenue from 54th north to 51st and Keeler Avenue for decades (It's bad enough we have excess traffic from the huge church on Keeler and its building's leased businesses traffic<br />including their parking lot they lease to the CTA-- we get ALL this extra traffic)! <br /><br />But the trucks are doing the worst damage-- just tearing up the street, causing deep holes and massive cracking-- some extending from the sewers! Off and on over these years I've witnessed that our complaints would succeed in stopping these trucks using our street for their 'short-cuts' through the illegal roadway 'trucking lot' between Keeler and Pulaski Road, on their ways N/S to Archer or 55th Street and onward. <br /><br />But, it's started all over again. In the last several years, it seems trucks have re-invaded this stretch (esp. after a 'truck-driving school'--legally or illegally(?) in that same lot adjacent to Jewel Foods on Pulaski. And, once again, they're using residential Keeler Avenue as their 'short-cut' (when they should only legally be using Pulaski Rd).<br /><br />So, thank you for publishing this news and glad that Garfield Ridge was able to get some rapid help with their problem. And, I took your advice and sent my message to the city AND the Alderman Zalewski, and CAPS (and back to you, SW News Editor). Let's see if we are deserving of as much assistance in stopping these illegal trucks--as you fellow taxpayers and residents-- we are in fact, in the same ward, so should benefit likewise...right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com