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Article: Truck traffic battle between Braintree, Quincy?; Quincy may ban gas tankers from Braintree site
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- November 22, 2005
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The Patriot Ledger
QUINCY - The city is gearing up to ban gasoline tanker trucks from
parts of Quincy in a move that could set off a truck traffic showdown
with neighboring Braintree.
A bill now before the Quincy City Council would essentially
localize language already in federal highway laws that would
authorize the city's public works commissioner to regulate where
trucks carrying hazardous cargos can and can't go. Tanker trucks
sidestepping those rules would be subject to $500 fines, according to
the measure. While the law proposed by Mayor William Phelan's
administration would be applied across the city, the prime targets
are the tanker trucks leaving the Citgo Petroleum Corp.'s East ...