There was some long painful discussion about a truck route on North 51st Street in Grand Forks that I skipped out on today. When I got back to the office, I tried to figure out what I’d missed and found this packet, which has a list of truck through-routes in the city (page 11).
I thought there were only three or four, but there are a bunch of them. Here’s what they look like on a map. I don’t know why anyone should care except it’s beet season and we’ll all be thinking about truck routes. The city still has on the books a proposal to build a truck-bypass on Merrifield Road to the south and across the river, but I think it’s still a ways off from funding it.
Notice that weird cluster of roads downtown and off of Dyke Avenue. Vestiges of our industrial past, I suppose.
I’ve always wondered about the ridiculous truck routes in GF and EGF. I’m perplexed why they allow beet trucks to drive through downtown. It seems it would make more sense to have them continue on to highway 2 and take the hwy 2 business route. It’s amazing the number of trucks that drive through downtown that really have no business being there. I wish the city would encourage them to continue on South Washington (Hwy 81) and take Hwy 2.