Close Packer, and close 3rd and 4th to thru-truck traffic

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Bill Gontram is a Philly transplant happy to find a nice quality of life on the Southside.

Gadfly:

Has anyone noticed the increase in truck traffic specifically on 3rd and 4th Streets? And especially tractor trailers bearing the FedEx logo? FedEx drivers use the corridors as a cut-through from/to I-78 to/from Route 378. Other truckers probably do it too depending on what their GPS might be saying at any given time. If Packer Ave is taken away as an east-west route, then big tucks, excepting through traffic on 378 (perhaps), should be restricted to local deliveries only.

Bill

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Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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One thought on “Close Packer, and close 3rd and 4th to thru-truck traffic”

  1. I see 3rd and 4th streets as east/west routes, but how does Packer Ave. imitate that? It doesn’t.

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