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Although there have been complaints of
large trucks using Brick Street as a
cut-through or detour, Wake Forest
police officers found no through-truck
violations over a 10-day period this
month. Commissioner Frank Drake asked
for the traffic study last month.
Tuesday night, Lt. D.
Abbacchi, who heads the traffic
enforcement division, said Officers B.
Amos and J. Graham were stationed on the
street – which has a “No Thru Trucks”
sign – from June 8 through June 16. They
worked the area in two-hour shifts, one
from 7 to 9 a.m. and one from 3 or 4 to
6 p.m.
The officers logged a total
of 1,663 vehicles, “which surprised me,”
Abbacchi said, adding he did not know
there was that much traffic on the
street which runs from North White
Street part-way through the historic
Mill Village, becoming Brewer Avenue
after the curve at the former mill store
and offices, and connecting to Chestnut,
Oak and Cedar avenues and from them to
North Main Street.
Most of the vehicles – 1,603
– were cars, vans, pickup trucks,
motorcycles or scooters, and 55 were
two-axle trucks that are considered work
vehicles such as UPS, FedEx, Sears and
Town of Wake Forest trucks.
There were only four trucks
with three or more axles. Two were owned
by Waste Industries and were picking up
trash, one was a concrete mixer making a
delivery at a Mill Village residence,
and one was a town dump truck picking up
yard debris.
“There were actually no
violations” of the ban on through
trucks, Abbacchi said.
“This is excellent,” Drake
said, looking at the printed report. |
