OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). This letter from Vera Mader is in response to a previous letter regarding the speeds of aggregate haulers on some area roadways.
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This problem (of speeding of aggregate haulers) is not just in Oro-Medonte, it spills into Severn Township also.
Instead of these trucks using highways, they are taking shortcuts through residential areas and school zones.
Crossing from Horseshoe Valley road across Highway 12 and down Division Road through the Marchmont School zone, in most cases they well exceed the speed limit of 40 km/h. None of the posted speed limit signs or electronic speed readers are being effective to slow them down. (Editor's Note: In June of this year, Severn Township council passed a bylaw prohibiting all heavy truck traffic along Division Road, from Prices Corner and Highway 12 to Burnside Line).
These trucks should not be allowed in any residential area, but particularly in a school zone where kids are walking, riding bikes and just being kids.
Do we want to wait until we have a tragedy on our hands or are our respective councils going to do something about it?
Vera Mader
Severn
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