Local Streets With "No Through Truck" Prohibitions

Topic:ROADS; TRANSPORTATION (GENERAL); MUNICIPALITIES; TRUCKS; Location:HIGHWAYS;

OLR RESEARCH REPORT

December 2, 1998		98-R-1370
LOCAL STREETS WITH "NO THROUGH TRUCK" PROHIBITIONS
By: James J. Fazzalaro, Principall Analyst

You asked that we summarize information contained in computerized tables the Department of Transportation (DOT) provided to us and we previously forwarded. This material lists all of the streets, organized by town, that carry "through truck" traffic prohibitions. You asked that we cumulate the data to indicate how many towns have such prohibitions, how many local roads are so affected, how many miles of road they represent, and any other description that would provide an overview. You also asked that we specifically break out the information for the towns of Cheshire, East Haven, Hamden, Milford, New Haven, North Haven, and West Haven.

Based on an interpretation provided by the Attorney General's Office, the State Traffic Commission considers a through truck to be one that travels from a point outside a municipality and goes through the municipality without any scheduled stop in it. Thus, a through truck prohibition may not actually affect many trucks using a particular road if they have a local destination. A town may prohibit trucks from a town road by ordinance as long as the prohibition does not, in effect, create a de facto no through truck route by affecting a road that crosses a town line into an adjoining jurisdiction.

SUMMARIZED DATA

The computer printout provided by Norm Fierravanti of the State Traffic Commission's DOT office identifies 99 municipalities that have at least one street designated as prohibited to through truck traffic. There are 594 separate road segments on this list, of which 19 are state roads. Road length information is missing for 28 of the 594 road segments. Most of the roads in the database with missing length information date back to 1958 when they were first approved for through truck restrictions. The total mileage for the 566 road segments with lengths specified in the database is 452.8 miles. The state road segments account for 26.4 miles of the total (three state road segments have missing length data). Thus the total for the 547 town road segments with identified lengths is 426.4 miles.

The majority of municipalities have five or fewer restricted roads (62 of 99 total). A total of 25 municipalities have only one restricted road. Another 37 have from two to five restricted roads. Of the remaining towns, 21 have from six to 10 restricted roads, 12 have from 11 to 19 such roads, and four towns have 20 or more. The towns with the most truck restricted road segments are: Hartford (42); Danbury (32); West Haven (26); Milford (20); Stratford (19); Newington and Norwalk (15); Monroe (14); North Haven (13); Bristol and Wethersfield (12); and Orange, Prospect, Stamford, and Cheshire (11).

The earliest restriction approval dates shown in database were in 1958. Four towns--Bridgewater, Granby, Killingly, and Newington--had approvals as recently as 1997.

DATA FOR SELECTED TOWNS

The information for the seven towns you asked to have broken out separately follows.

Cheshire

Cheshire has 11 roads with through truck prohibitions totaling more than 14.3 miles. One of these roads is State Route 42 (from the Prospect town line to Route 10) which accounts for 2.94 miles of the total. It was restricted in 1981. Two of the local streets were restricted in 1965, one in 1966, two in 1975, and five in 1976. The 10 local roads with restrictions are:

1. Byam Road (Route 70 to Musso View Avenue—0.32 mi.)

2. Cornwall Avenue (Mountain Road to Route 10—1.45 mi.)

3. King Road (Route 10 to Route 42—0.41 mi.)

4. Marion Road (Mixville Road to Southington town line—2.77 mi.)

5. Mitchell Avenue (Maple Avenue to Route 10—0.15 mi.)

6. Mountain View Terrace (Maple Avenue to Route 10—0.10 mi.)

7. Musso View Avenue (Byam Road to State Route 844—0.52 mi.)

8. Peck Lane (Route 70 to Southington town line—3.67 mi.)

9. South Brooksvale Road (Route 42 to Route 10—1.67 mi.)

10. Waverly Street (Route 70 to Park Place—0.33 mi.)

East Haven

East Haven has nine restricted road segments, all of which were approved in October 1958. Thus there is no mileage data for any of the roads. Two are state roads: Route 100 (Main Street to Route 1) and Route 142 (Route 100 to Route 1). The local streets with restrictions are Cherry Street (Kimberly Avenue to Route 1), Forbes Place (Main Street to Kimberly Avenue), Pine Street (Kimberly Avenue to Route 1), Sanford Street (Route 100 to Route 1), Sidney Street (Forbes Place to Route 100), and two sections of Kimberly Avenue (one from Main Street to Route 1 and the other is not identified in the database).

Hamden

Hamden has six restricted roads, two of which are state routes. These total 5.72 miles with the two state roads accounting for 1.31 miles of the total. The state routes are Route 22 (Route 10 to the North Haven town line) and Route 453 (Mount Carmel Avenue). Route 22 was restricted in 1972 and Route 453 in 1989. Three of the local streets were restricted in 1982 and the fourth was restricted in 1989. The local streets are:

1. Mount Carmel Avenue (Route 453 to North Haven town line—1.27 mi.)

2. Rige Road (Route 5 to North Haven town line—2.08 mi.)

3. West Todd Street (Gaylord Mountain Road to Still Hill Road—0.76 mi.)

4. West Todd Road (Gaylord Mountain Road to Choate Road—0.3 mi.)

Milford

Milford has 20 restricted road segments but the length information for four of the roads is missing from the database. The other 16 segments total 6.7 miles. Four of the streets were restricted in 1958, 12 in 1964, two in 1966, one in 1972, and one in 1973. The roads are:

1. Baldwin Street (Lennox Avenue to Naugatuck Avenue—0.09 mi.)

2. Brewster Road (Route 162 to Anderson Road—0.78 mi.)

3. Church Street (Naugatuck Avenue to Fairfield Street—0.11 mi.)

4. Ellis Street (Edgemont Road to Route 1—0.16 mi.)

5. Fairview Street (Route 1 to end—0.27 mi.)

6. Harold Avenue (Naugatuck Avenue to Ridge Street—0.06 mi.)

7. High Street (I-95 to Route 1)

8. Intervale Parkway (Edgemont Road to Route 1—0.15 mi.)

9. Kerema Avenue (Edgemont Road to Route 1—0.18 mi.)

10. Lenox Avenue (Baldwin Street to Route 1—0.30 mi.)

11. Loomis Street (Route 1 to end—0.25 mi.)

12. Plains Road (I-95 to Route 1)

13. Quarry Road (Woodmont Road to Rose's Mill Road—0.84 mi.)

14. Rivercliff Drive (Route 1 to end—0.56 mi.)

15. Rose's Mill Road (Woodmont Road to Orange town line--1.09 mi.)

16. Schoolhouse Road (West Avenue to Route 1)

17. Spring Street (Edgemont Road to Route 1—0.18 mi.).

18. West Clark Street (Plains Road to Route 1)

19. Woodland Drive (Edgemont Road to Route 1—0.14 mi.)

20. Woodruff Road (Route 1 to Route 121—1.54 mi.)

New Haven

New Haven has four restricted streets. One was restricted in 1987 and the other three in 1988. Length data is included in the database for three of them. The total length for three segments is 1.14 miles. The roads are:

1. Chapel Street (Howe Street to Derby Avenue—0.56 mi.)

2. Derby Avenue (Chapel Street to Route 10—0.40 mi.)

3. Howe Street (North Frontage Road to Chapel Street—0.18 mi.)

4. Stiles Street

North Haven

North Haven has 13 restricted streets, one of which is a state route. The segments total 15.82 miles. The state route is Route 22 from the Hamden town line to State Street (1.03 miles). It was restricted in 1972. One of the local streets was restricted in 1960, eight in 1976, one in 1984, one in 1989, and one in 1992. The 12 local streets are:

1. Bassett road (Route 22 to Bradley Road—1.53 mi.)

2. Beach Street (Maple Avenue to Spring Road—0.28 mi.)

3. Hartford Turnpike (Dixwell Avenue to Wallingford town line—4.48 mi.)

4. Laydon Avenue (Maple Avenue to Tennyson Ave., Pequot Ave., and Spring Rd.—0.31 mi.)

5. Montowese Avenue (Quinnipiac Avenue to Route 17—0.65 mi.)

6. Mount Carmel Avenue (Hamden town line to Hartford Turnpike—1.28 mi.)

7. Ridge Road (Hamden town line to Dixwell Avenue—1.3 mi.)

8. Rimmon Road (Route 17 to Route 22—1.54 mi.)

9. Skiff Street (State Route 707 (Whitney Avenue) to Route 5 (State Street))—1.1 mi.)

10. Spring Road (Middletown Avenue (Route 17) to Tennyson, Laydon, and Pequot Avenues—1.61 mi.)

11. St. John Street (Route 5 to Pool Road—0.29 mi.)

12. Village Street (Quinnipiac Avenue to Middletown Avenue—0.42 mi.)

West Haven

West Haven has 26 restricted street segments. Length data is missing for one of them. The total for the other 25 is 9.72 miles. Most of these roads (22) were approved for restriction in 1979. Two were approved in 1981, one in 1986, and one in 1987. The roads are:

1. Alling Street (Campbell Avenue to First Avenue (Route 122)—0.13 mi.)

2. Alling Street Extension (First Avenue to Front Avenue—0.22 mi.)

3. Antrim Street (Ardale Street to Fairfax Street—0.21 mi.)

4. Dana Street (Campbell Avenue to First Avenue—0.19 mi.)

5. Dogwood Road (Orange town line to Orange town line—0.17 mi.)

6. Eaton Street (Swampscott Street to Fairfax Street—0.18 mi.)

7. Edith Street (Railroad Avenue to Edward Street—0.07 mi.)

8. Edward Street (Railroad Avenue to Voss Road—0.23 mi.)

9. Elm Street (Route 162 (Sawmill Road) to Elm Street /First Avenue—1.08 mi.)

10. Frontage Road (Morgan Lane to Allings Crossing Road—0.69 mi.)

11. Harold Street (Swampscott Street to Fairfax Street—0.21 mi.)

12. Highland Street (Greta Street to Campbell Avenue—0.73 mi.)

13. I-95 Exit 43 Northbound Off-Ramp (I-95 to Campbell Avenue)

14. Lamson Street (Campbell Avenue to Front Avenue—0.34 mi.)

15. Main Street (Route 162 (Wagner Place) to Water Street—1.17 mi.)

16. Morgan Lane (Frontage Road to Prindle/Sawmill Roads—0.22 mi.)

17. Newbern Street (Ardale Street to Fairfax Street—0.12 mi.)

18. Nonquit Street (Swampscott Street to Fairfax Street—0.22 mi.)

19. Prindle Road (Orange town line to Sawmill Road/Morgan Lane—0.29 mi.)

20. Richards Street (Campbell Avenue to First Avenue—0.38 mi.)

21. Sawmill Road (Prindle Road/Morgan Lane to Route 162—0.65 mi.)

22. Tetlow Street (Ardale Street to Fairfax Street—0.17 mi.)

23. Voss Road (Sawmill Road to Sawmill Road—0.17 mi.)

24. Wenham Street (Swampscott Street to Fairfax Street—0.2 mi.)

25. West Spring Street (Meloy Road to Campbell Avenue—1.05 mi.)

26. York Street (Sawmill Road (Route 162) to Campbell Avenue—0.63)

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