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| Barre may have new truck route for airport project - Times-Argus Posted: 23 Sep 2009 01:32 PM PDT Barre may have new truck route for airport project
By David Delcore TIMES ARGUS STAFF - Published: September 23, 2009 BARRE – It's not a done deal yet, but city officials have floated a proposal they say would divert hundreds of tri-axle construction trucks from traveling through downtown Barre on a daily basis starting next spring. This week Mayor Thomas Lauzon provided more details about a plan that he said would divert roughly two-thirds of the 150,000 cubic yards of soil and rock that will be excavated at E.F. Knapp Airport in Berlin as part of a federally funded upgrade. Lauzon, who briefed the selectboard in Berlin on Monday night and met with their counterparts in Barre Town immediately before Tuesday night's City Council meeting, said the plan involves trucking roughly 100,000 cubic yards of the clean fill to property on Prospect Street Extension where the Bond Auto Parts warehouse is located. According to Lauzon, the Bond family is willing to accept the fill, which could expedite any future expansion of the locally owned business, and is prepared to immediately create two new ball fields for use by local children. Lauzon said the plan would address the council's concern that the century-old sewer line that is buried beneath North Main Street might buckle under the steady pounding associated with being part of the primary truck route identified for the airport project. "It works," he said. "It would keep the majority of that truck traffic off Main Street." Lauzon said it would also keep those same trucks from having to negotiate the high-accident intersection of Route 62, Airport and Fisher Roads in Berlin, while creating new recreation fields in neighboring Barre Town, and accommodating the possible future expansion of the locally owned auto parts business down the road. However, officials in Berlin are concerned the new route would do damage to one of their roads. According to Lauzon, in contrast, the selectboard in Barre Town was extremely supportive. "They saw the benefit as well of giving a good corporate neighbor the opportunity to expand," he said, suggesting they viewed the promised creation of the ball fields as an added carrot. The selectboard in Berlin was non-committal at best Monday night. Although board members said they were willing to entertain the discussion, they expressed reservations about a proposal that would force the bulk of the truck traffic associated with the airport project to travel over a deteriorating section of Airport Road. Berlin Road Commissioner Richard Tetreault said while he sympathized with the city's concern about its sewer line, he noted North Main Street is part of a well traveled truck route that was presumably built to handle precisely the kind of traffic the airport project will generate. "It's a state road," he said. "It's a truck route … Berlin doesn't have a truck route … our roads aren't built to take it." Tetreault told the board the southern section of Airport Road is already in "rough shape" and he worried that rewriting the permit for the airport project to make it the primary truck route would cause damage the town would be left to repair. Lauzon said he was sensitive to the concern shared by Tetreault and the town board and was willing to entertain any alternatives that would reduce the number of trucks destined for downtown Barre. According to the latest estimates, up to 220 trucks a day would travel through downtown Barre for 180 days starting next spring as part of a project that involves construction of a new runway at the airport. One alternative suggested by members of the Berlin board would involve hauling much of the fill literally across Airport Road to land owned by developer Henry LaGue. Although Lauzon said that would suit the city's needs, he suggested that was between LaGue and Pike Industries – the company that has been hired to truck the material. According to Lauzon, the first trucks associated with the project will start rolling next week and most – if not all – of them will travel through downtown Barre. This fall roughly 10,000 cubic yards of material will be hauled away from the airport resulting in roughly 25 daily truck trips through downtown Barre over the next two months. Although Lauzon said that level of truck traffic appeared tolerable from the city's perspective, he said it is imperative the matter is resolved before the "heavy lifting" begins in the spring. Toward that end, Lauzon persuaded councilors to authorize City Manager John Craig to appeal the land use permit granted for the airport project based on the city's traffic-related concerns if negotiations involving an alternate truck route falter or a sudden problem arises. "I would like our manager to have that ability," he said. "I think it's … important to keep all of our options open." In other business Tuesday, councilors: ? Approved a five-year tax stabilization agreement with ReCycle North based on the company's grant-funded redevelopment of a Granite Street manufacturing plant; ? Approved a six-month extension of a listing agreement with BCK Real Estate involving the marketing of city-owned property; and ? Approved a pole relocation order that that will accommodate plans to install traffic signals at the intersections of Summer Street and Maple Avenue and Summer and Elm Streets as part of the long-awaited North Main Street reconstruction project.
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