§ 34-72. Truck routes established; certain heavy vehicles prohibited.
(a)
There is hereby established a system of streets which shall be known as truck routes. Said truck routes are set forth and listed in subsection (d). It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate any vehicle in excess of forty-four thousand (44,000) pounds, gross vehicle weight, upon any street not designated as a truck route in this chapter; provided however, that any person or driver may deviate from a designated truck route by using the most direct route to and from a specific destination otherwise prohibited to truck traffic in order to receive or deliver materials or merchandise.
(b)
The director of traffic is hereby authorized and directed to install appropriate signs and markings to identify those streets designated as truck routes. He is further authorized and directed to install such additional signs and markings as may be necessary to guide or direct the movement of truck traffic along designated truck routes, and to post such signs as may be reasonably necessary to give notice of and identify those streets on which truck traffic is prohibited.
(c)
The prohibition of this section shall become effective at such time as signs identifying truck routes are installed.
(d)
In accordance with subsections (a) through (c) the following streets or parts of streets are hereby declared to be and are designated as truck routes:
(1)
Interstate Highway 45 and the frontage roads parallel thereto.
(2)
Broadway, from IH-45 to 51st Street.
(3)
Port Industrial Boulevard, from IH-45 to 28th Street.
(4)
Water Street, from 28th Street to 12th Street.
(5)
The Strand, from 12th Street to Ferry Road.
(6)
Ferry Road, from The Strand to the Ferry Landing.
(7)
Fifty-first Street (Seawolf Parkway), from Broadway to Shell Road.
(8)
Sixty-first Street from Broadway to Seawall Boulevard.
(9)
Seawall Boulevard, from 61st Street to San Luis Pass Bridge.
Deviations from these streets to points of origin or destination are restricted to the shortest, most direct route in every instance.
(Ord. No. 80-31, §§ 1, 2, 4-3-80; Ord. No. 81-61, §§ 1, 2, 7-30-81; Ord. No. 88-01, § 1, 1-7-88)