Thursday, March 30, 2000
Message to trucks removed
BY MARIE McCAIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
For the past three weeks, the familiar reminder about the wide-vehicle ban along the Fort Washington Way reconstruction project has been missing from the electronic message boards over area interstates.
But the ban will remain in effect until August.
ARTIMIS officials said Wednesday that the warnings haven't stopped truckers and other wide-vehicle drivers from using the opened lanes of Fort Washington Way through downtown Cincinnati.
So, to maintain driver attention to different messages — such as accident warnings — authorities decided to remove ban-related notes.
“We've seen between three and five vehicles violating the ban almost daily,” said Linda Roll, a traffic supervisor with ARTIMIS. “We think truckers have enough information already to know about the ban. They're just ignoring it. ... We're just leaving it up to the police now.”
Since July 1998, when the ban was instituted, more than 3,500 tickets have been given to violators.
There have been accidents as a result of people ignoring the ban, officials said. Crash cleanup fees have ranged from $500 to $17,000.
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