The Miami County Commission is wanting to restrict truck traffic on even different roads in northern Miami County and include preventing over the road trucks from using portions of 223rd Street and Gardner Road that are deemed “collector routes” to move traffic between highways. The commission voted to prohibit use of commercial vehicles designated class 7 or above on the roadways. The class 7 designation would cover tractor-trailers and other large commercial vehicles. It does provide some exceptions for delivery vehicles, construction vehicles and emergency vehicles.
Residents in the northern part of the county have voiced their concerns about heavy tractor-trailer traffic on the seven roadways which are not built for commercial use in this predominantly agriculture and rural residential area. Truck traffic has increased with the expansion of the intermodal facility encroaching on the northwest corner of the county.
