Getting trucks off Bay Street

[Newsboy]

Originally Posted by CoastalGAGuy

Newsboy, have you driven down DeRenne from 516 to the Truman most times of the workday? It's often clogged up worse than Bay Street, and way out of the way (3 legs of a rectangle vs. the 1 they are using now).

For a little historical perspective, City Council was talking about double-decking DeRenne from 516 to the Truman back in the mid-90s. The proposal was that the elevated lanes would be for through-traffic, whereas local traffic would be routed to the lower ones. Obviously, that one never made it off the ground. Similar proposals met with similar fates for Abercorn "Expressway" south of the Truman.

Highway projects take a long time anywhere, but in Savannah, they tend to be pie-in-the-sky.

ARE YOU KIDDING?! I avoid DeRenne at all costs!!!

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

Most of the trucks passing through downtown are not local, but simply going from the interstate to the industrial sites off President Street just east of downtown -- and not coincidently, just EAST of Truman Parkway. I know this for a fact because I live on the islands and drive Islands Expresway daily. The trucks only come and go as far as Elba Island Road. (Local trucks making deliveries to retail sites on the islands themsleves aka Walmart Pubkix etc are likely hitting multiple location elsewhere in the city and thus enclined to use Victory Drive / US 80).

SO HERE IS MV POINT: I don't know why more of these indistrial trucks don't take the 516 > DeRenne > Truman Parkway to the plants just east on President Street, other than the fact it's more out of their way than to go through downtown. But with downtown traffic as gridlocked as it is most days, I can't see it as that big a time saver. At any rate, it seems a simple solution (to me) to REQUIRE industrial trucks to take the 516 > DeRenne > Truman runaround -- at least during certain hours. The problem now is the city has no authority to create or enforce such a rule, because Bay Street is a state through highway. Surely that can be changed?!

Have you checked where the truck route is exactly? It could be that trucks have no choice but to use the route they do as specified by the official truck route which is determined by your local government body.

[Newsboy]

Originally Posted by CSD610

Have you checked where the truck route is exactly? It could be that trucks have no choice but to use the route they do as specified by the official truck route which is determined by your local government body.

I think you hit the nail on the head.

[bellhead]

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