Tonawanda, NY (WBEN) Another oversized truck hit the Young Street Bridge in the City of Tonawanda last week, reiterating the calls for something to be done about it.
Tonawanda Mayor William Strassbourg says there’s a project right now that’s in the works. “That’s still waiting for approval before we can go out for design, but it has lasers, and it ends up bouncing the laser beam off over height trucks that will then activate more lights to try to alert the drivers, even beyond what’s already being done to stop these collisions from happening,” says Strassbourg. “It’s just bogged down right now, waiting for all final approvals before we can go out for the actual design and then to implement the system. So it’s still in the hopper. It’s still working its way through all the approvals, but that is the plan to have that done.”
Strassbourg says there is a long history of trucks hitting the bridge, and that’s where he feels the responsibility lies. “There’s seven or eight signs with flags that I mean you just have to blatantly ignore the height limits of that bridge to drive through and hit it. Now we’ve done so much with the signs, and I mean, ultimately, it does lie completely with the driver of these trucks that keep running into the bridge,” says Strassbourg…