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Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 01/12/2006 - 10:25am.
125 -additional- logging trucks a day that is, on average, through town. I really don't see how our downtown can handle this or if it even should. There is a lot more to this article Port's rail route may see trucks but I'm stuck on the idea of 125 more log trucks a day. This along with the dredging plans all seem to lead towards using the downtown as one big funnel for the Port and Weyerhaeuser.
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Submitted by stevenl on Thu, 01/12/2006 - 6:39pm.What's even worse is when som
Submitted by The Fire Inside on Fri, 01/13/2006 - 6:34am.If you stop and think about it for a second, you might figure out that logging trucks (and IT buses) need both lanes in a roundabout.
It's like people sitting at a stop sign/intersection and, when a large truck is trying to turn, sit where they are instead of backing their car up.
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Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 05/06/2006 - 12:22pm.Truck dumps load on Harrison; no one injured
THE OLYMPIAN 5-5-06
OLYMPIA — Westbound traffic headed over the Fourth Avenue bridge was backed up through downtown Thursday morning after a truck lost its log load while trying to negotiate the Harrison Avenue roundabout, police said.
The truck was headed from West Bay Drive into the roundabout at 11 a.m. when the logs shifted and broke the structure holding them in place, sending the bound logs crashing onto the outer edge of the roundabout, Olympia police Sgt. Paul Johnson said.
There were no other vehicles to the right of the truck when the logs fell, and no injuries were reported, he said.
Though the logs were not in the direct path of traffic on the roundabout, police diverted westbound traffic across the bridge away from Olympic Way. Eastbound traffic coming down Harrison Avenue was kept to the right.
The logs still were in their binding after the spill, but police didn't want to risk the bindings breaking and causing more accidents, Johnson said.
Cleanup began a little after noon and took about an hour.
Driver Tim Reed of Centralia said his truck load was underweight, but the equipment was stressed after the log weight shifted.
“I felt it, and then saw the load in my side-view mirror,
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Submitted by Sarah on Sat, 05/06/2006 - 4:37pm.