Yakima Posts New City Truck Routes

If you drive the big rig, heads up.  You have a skill and ability most of us don't so it's best if we stay out of your way and you and your truck stay out of ours.

To that end, the Yakima City Council has approved a city truck route network  intended to concentrate truck traffic to better accommodate truck turning movements, facilitate truck route enforcement, protect residential areas from unnecessary truck traffic, and protect the safety of drivers and pedestrians.

The City’s 22 truck routes are:

• North/South 1^st Street from Interstate 82/Highway 12 Interchange south to City Limits.
• North 5^th Avenue between Fruitvale Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
• North/South 16th Avenue from Highway 12 south to Ahtanum Road.
• North/South 40th Avenue from Highway 12 south to West Washington Avenue.
• South 64th Avenue between Tieton Drive and Ahtanum Road.
• West “I” Street between North 1st Street and North 6th Avenue.
• Fruitvale Boulevard between North 5th Avenue and North 40th Avenue.
• Summitview Avenue from North 40th Avenue west to the City Limits.
• East/West Nob Hill Boulevard between the east City Limits and South 72nd Avenue.
• East/West Washington Avenue between South 1st Street and South 64th Avenue.
• East Lincoln Avenue between Fair Avenue and North 5th Avenue.
• East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between Fair Avenue and North 5th Avenue.
• Fair Avenue between Lincoln/MLK Couplet and Nob Hill Boulevard.
• Tieton Drive from 40th Avenue west to the City Limits.
• Pacific Avenue from Fair Avenue to 18th Street.
• 18th Street from Pacific Avenue to Mead Avenue.
• Sixth Avenue from ‘I’ Street to Gordon Road.
• Ahtanum Road from 16th Avenue to west City Limits.
• 72^nd Avenue from Summitview Avenue to Nob Hill Boulevard.
• Yakima Avenue between the east City Limits and North 8th Street.
• 96th Avenue between Summitview Avenue and Tieton Drive.
• River Road between 6th Avenue and Fruitvale Boulevard.

Click http://bit.ly/TruckRouteOrdinance for the truck route ordinance the Council approved on August 6^th. It includes links to the ordinance and a City of Yakima truck route map.

For more information about City truck routes, contact Planning Manager Joseph Calhoun at 575-6042.