Another border town wants to restrict trucks

SARNIA, Ont. — Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley says he’ll ask county council to establish a trucking bylaw this year to keep commercial trucks off of some of the routes they currently use to get to and from the Port Huron border.

According to the London Free Press, Bradley is reacting to “decades” of complaints from residents tired of truck traffic on such streets like Lakeshore Road from Sarnia to Grand Bend, London Line in Sarnia and Plympton-Wyoming in Petrolia.

The border town’s mayor said there needs to be a report from county staff before any such action is taken.

Petrolia Mayor John McCharles said he doesn’t necessarily want to ban trucks on county roads, but that commercial vehicles should stay away from downtown Petrolia at least during peak hours.

Many trucks, he added, are not for-hire carrier trucks, but grain haulers and garbage trucks.

In the nearby border city of Windsor, Coun. Drew Dilkens is urging city council to ban trucks on a portion of busy Dougall Ave., which is sometimes used by truckers too bypass the congested Huron Church corridor.

However, a recommendation from city administrators is strongly advising against a ban, saying it has “grave concerns” that such a change would push trucks onto other residential streets.

— with files from the London Free Press