City to eliminate one-way streets

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March 17, 2010

By Daniel Pye The Tonawanda News The Tonawanda News Wed Mar 17, 2010, 01:38 AM EDT

City of Tonawanda, NY — In two weeks, all of the streets in the City of Tonawanda will have two-way traffic.

Common Council members discuss dropping the one-way restrictions on Morgan, Adam and Virginia streets before the regular meeting held Tuesday night. While they haven’t yet passed a resolution to make the move official, they all agreed it was coming at the next meeting.

“We’re going to get rid of all the one-way streets the city doesn’t need,” Councilman Blake Boyle said.

The change is part of an overhaul of the city’s truck routes stemming from an on-going problem with tractor trailers hitting the train bridge that runs over Young Street. Changes banning trucks from that section of Young Street and installing flags to draw more attention to signs displaying the bridge’s clearance proved ineffective, so the city is reworking its entire strategy.

Council President Carl Zeisz said under the new law, likely to pass two weeks from Tuesday at the next scheduled council meeting, trucks will be limited to Delaware and Seymour streets and portions of Main Street and Fillmore Avenue.

To accommodate the necessary turns that come along with the new truck route designations, city leaders decided some changes to one-ways were in order. Further review left them with the opinion that the one-way designations on three city streets were unnecessary altogether.

Changing the streets to a two-way traffic pattern also changes the parking situation, but an added provision will keep cars from parking along the 60 feet of William Street north of Morgan Street to allow fire trucks enough room to turn out of the fire hall.

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