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Article: Truck traffic angers residents Black Forest officials ask county to intervene
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- July 2, 2005
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Drivers of heavy trucks bound for construction sites in northeast
El Paso County regularly use Black Forest's narrow highways as a
shortcut, and residents there want it to stop.
They're asking El Paso County planners to limit the weight and
size of trucks passing through the community and to enforce truck
routes outlined in the county transportation plan.
Phil Hosmer, chairman of the Black Forest transportation
committee, made that pitch to the county transportation department in
a June 24 letter. Transportation planner Janet Stephens said her
department will look into it but didn't promise any action.
County planners updated the Major Transportation Corridors Plan,
first penned in 1987, ...