Key transport routes no longer in use

Car delivery services operating within the city limits of a major population centre of the world usually do so with restrictions that can include the use of specific transport routes through the city that have been approved by both city staff, consultation team hired to lend their opinion, and often the car hauling associations representing the car transport professionals in question. The removal or changing of traditional transport routes for services that play a key role in a city's business activities is only going to mean transports will have to use other key transport routes around the city and it could add unnecessary miles to a trip.

The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) had agreed to back the Hamilton Truck Route Master Plan Study, but has recently made comments that indicate some of the transport routes that were first suggested in the study were not in the final recommendations put forth by the Truck Route Sub-Committee of Hamilton.

Apparently, the City of Hamilton decided it wants to remove the transport routes in question for an 18-month test period, for reasons that haven't been forthcoming, despite the routes being recommended by the city staff and consultation team. The key routes in question include parts of Kenilworth Avenue, Upper Ottawa Street, Concession Street/Mountain Brow Blvd, Centennial Parkway and Dundurn Street.

What does this mean for auto transport services operating within the city limits of Hamilton? It might mean transports might have to take other routes than they normally would to get to destination, depending on the missing route they need to use? For example, it's suggested by some transport professionals that the removal of Centennial Parkway from the available transport routes will add an extra million kilometres of transport miles in the City of Hamilton annually.