L.A. Council Expands Truck Delivery Hours
Seeking to encourage truckers to avoid the Ventura Freeway while it is being widened, the Los Angeles City Council on Friday lifted restrictions on early-morning and late-night deliveries in residential neighborhoods.
By a 12-0 vote, the council relaxed a noise-control ordinance prohibiting loading and unloading of vehicles within 200 feet of a residence between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Under the action, truckers with a permit from the city’s Department of Transportation will be allowed to make deliveries until an hour later, 11 p.m., and start an hour earlier, 6 a.m. Permits will not be issued for noisy activities such as trash pickup.
Expanded delivery hours will be limited to an area bounded by Ventura and Victory boulevards, the San Diego Freeway and the western city limits.
Enforcement of the ordinance was suspended during the 1984 Olympics, a move credited with helping to keep freeway traffic flowing during the Summer Games.
Earlier this week, the state Department of Transportation refused, for the time being, a City Council request to ban trucks from the freeway at rush hour while the widening is under way.
The 2 1/2-year widening, which began last month, will add a lane in each direction between Calabasas and Universal City.
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