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Yorkville police crackdown on semi-trucks driving through subdivisions · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville police cracked down on semi trucks driving through subdivisions
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  Speaker 1: that I'd written by Joey Weslow. This article is being
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  Speaker 1: After safety concerns from residents of semi trucks driving down
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  Speaker 1: residential subdivision streets, the Yorkville Police cracked down on enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: From January fourteenth to February ninth, police conducted fourteen traffic
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  Speaker 1: stops in the Caledonia Subdivision between Caledonia Drive and Corneil's Road.
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  Speaker 1: Police Chief James Jensen said of those fourteen stops, ten
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  Speaker 1: were semi trucks that were in violation of the city's
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  Speaker 1: ordinance prohibiting any vehicle heavier than eight tons on residential streets.
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  Speaker 1: Resident Lydia Battagia previously told city council we are constantly
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  Speaker 1: getting semi truck traffic. They drive down where our kids play.
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  Speaker 1: She said the trucks fly off Boomba Boulevard. The taglar
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  Speaker 1: requested the city look into installing additional stop signs to
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  Speaker 1: increase safety in the subdivision. She also suggested the city
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  Speaker 1: install a structure going over the road denying clearance entry
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  Speaker 1: to trucks with too high a height. Jensen said officers
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  Speaker 1: encountered different semi truck drivers from different areas, and an
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  Speaker 1: officer pulled over a driver from Canada. He said some
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  Speaker 1: trucks go to minards and some to bright farms. A
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  Speaker 1: common denominator is semi truck drivers using GPS on their
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  Speaker 1: phones rather than the separate GPS for truckers, which provides
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  Speaker 1: alternate traffic routes designed for trucks. Jensen said Yorkville first
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  Speaker 1: began ticketing violators of the Weight Ordinance in May twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. The ordinance was adopted following a string of
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  Speaker 1: safety concerns from residents in the Kyland's Ridge and Cannonball
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  Speaker 1: Estates subdivisions, saying that heavy trucks, construction trucks, and semi
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  Speaker 1: trucks were speeding down residential streets. Delivery trucks, garbage trucks,
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  Speaker 1: and snowplows will still be allowed to use the residential streets,
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  Speaker 1: according to city documents,