Letter to the editor: Bovard residents tired of trucks

Once again a tractor-trailer missing turns off 119 ended up in Bovard. This happens numerous times a year. The driver ripped electric lines and a pole at the end of Price Street and damaged property and homes. We were without power for seven hours. There is a child on this street with health issues and elderly citizens. Thank goodness it was not on Christmas; it could have burst pipes and caused serious issues with the elderly and disabled.

Truck drivers use Georges Station Road to Route 30 and 119 because they are not allowed in downtown Greensburg. We residents all have gotten fairly intuitive: If we see a tractor-trailer we go out and stop him and redirect him.

It has seemed to have fallen on deaf ears addressing this with Hempfield Township that if truck drivers are going to use these routes, they need to be better marked. Put up signs to direct them to 30 and 119 as truck routes.

Hopefully the supervisors can read a letter to the editor as residents calling them seems to not work, and we are tired of it.

Carol Badgley

Bovard