Roads need upgrades to handle truck traffic

Gravel/asphalt pit production in Seaview, Richmond Co., continues to operate on a full scale this month and possibly into December.

The empty and fully loaded hauling gravel/asphalt trucks are using the Mountain, Morrison, Sporting and Grant Roads.

There is a danger concern on the Grant Road for local residents as the one-and-one-quarter mile section of secondary roadway has never been upgraded to handle this type of truck traffic.

The Grant Road is very narrow with turns blinding one’s vision with roadside alders, a real bad ess-shaped turn and three busted road culverts.

In the late spring of this year, the Grant Road was graveled and partly ditched but the work still does not meet secondary roads needs in order to handle the volume of heavy truck traffic. Grant Road residents, truck drivers and the motoring public are cruising on an uncontrolled crash course on this section of the road.

No one is asking for a paved Grant Road. Residents, truck drivers and the motoring public are only looking for reassurance from the Department Of Transportation to deal with this safety issue by upgrading to meet all the users using Grant Road today, and in the future. Caution signs indicating trucks hauling should be posted at both ends of the Grant Road until the road problem can be solved.

It would help some motorists to expect the unknown dangers on Grant Road while traveling along this road.

Clarence Landry Seaview, Richmond Co.