Residents across Detroit are calling on the city to expand truck traffic restrictions citywide and strengthen enforcement of existing rules, saying heavy trucks are damaging roads and polluting the air in their neighborhoods.
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Detroit residents push for citywide truck route ordinance
KT Morelli has lived in Poletown on Detroit’s east side since 2007. She says heavy truck traffic rolling through her neighborhood damages roads and kicks up dust carrying particulate matter.
“Which are tiny particles you can’t even see, but they get stuck in your lungs and get into your blood,” Morelli said.
Morelli pointed to a 2025 air quality study conducted near her home by the Trucks Off Our Streets Coalition, a citywide alliance working to reduce truck traffic and pollution. The study found an average of 27 trucks rolled through the area every single day…