Feeder road would steer away truck traffic
Photo credit: Newsday / Judy Cartwright | A cement truck heads down Colin Drive, a residential street in Shirley. Residents would like a stop sign, to slow traffic, or a new road to divert the trucks. (Dec. 4, 2012)
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Cement mixers and eighteen-wheelers drive past Mary Trujillo's house in Shirley every day, starting as early as 2 a.m. and continuing late into the night. They're bound for the cement plant at the end of her street, Colin Drive.
Trujillo, who's lived on Colin Drive almost 19 years, says far more trucks make the trip now than in earlier years -- she's counted as many as 150 a day. She is exasperated...
