posted by admin on Oct 15
The Arizona Department of Transportation has announced several ongoing restrictions and a few temporary bans on truck traffic in the Prescott district.
- Arizona Route 89A – Trucks with trailers that are more than 50 feet long are prohibited from driving on Route 89A in the Mingus Mountain area. This restriction applies to northbound traffic beginning at milepost 320 near Glassford Hill Road, and at milepost 330 near Old Fain Road. The same rule applies to southbound traffic beginning at milepost 349 in Clarkdale.
- Arizona Route 89 – Trucks with trailers that are more than 40 feet long are prohibited from driving on Route 89 near Kirkland Junction. This applies to northbound traffic at milepost 295 near Wilhoit and milepost 310 near Prescott.
Also, Yavapai County has load restrictions on Williamson Valley Road northwest of Prescott.
There are also two bans on wide loads because of construction, DOT spokesman Bill Williams told Land Line.
- Arizona Route 169 at the Agua Fria Bridge – the state is replacing the bridge over the Agua Fria and has imposed a load width limit of 10 feet.
- Arizona Route 260 near Cottonwood – the state is widening Route 260 and initiated a load width limit of 13 feet limit near the eastern edge of Cottonwood following a recent truck incident.
“Occasionally, truck drivers will Google or MapQuest a shorter route that leads them onto ADOT highways where there are restrictions, so please make a note of our regulation,” the agency’s announcement stated. “The Department of Public Safety has informed us that they will give tickets to violators.”
More information is available at http://www.azdot.gov/prescottprojects.
– By Charlie Morasch, staff writer
charlie_morasch@landlinemag.com
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