Auburn, NY -- Representatives of the New York State Motor Truck Association will meet with the public at a meeting Wednesday in Auburn to talk about truck traffic in the Finger Lakes region. The forum begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 75 North St. The truck association has been one of the most visible opponents of plans to...
Auburn, NY -- Representatives of the New York State Motor Truck Association will meet with the public at a meeting Wednesday in Auburn to talk about truck traffic in the Finger Lakes region. The forum begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 75 North St.
The truck association has been one of the most visible opponents of plans to regulate truck traffic on local roads in the Finger Lakes and lobbied against the state implementing Department of Transportation draft regulations that would have banned trucks from seven specific roads.
Residents of the Finger Lakes have pressured state officials for years to get trucks carrying municipal waste from the New York City area to the Seneca Meadows landfill in Seneca Falls off local roads. The traffic poses safety and environmental hazards, they have said.
This spring, the DOT decided to shelve its regulations after it said much of the truck traffic would simply use different roads in the area.
Both the association and the governor’s office, which backed the regulations, say future contracts between the landfill and trucking firms will require the trucks to use the interstate system. That means 80 percent of the trash trucks will be off local roads this year, and the governor’s office has said all of the trucks will be off the roads by the end of 2011.
Contact John Stith at jstith@syracuse.com or at 251-5718.