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Medford - Residents of South Medford are sick of the noise and traffic tie-ups on Harvard Street and have rallied for a ban on heavy trucking. More than 500 heavy trucks traverse the street each day, according to estimates.

Citing safety concerns, noise and traffic, members of the South Medford Residents Together (SMRTO) took their message to the City Council last week.

“It’s been an ongoing problem since we first discussed it about a year ago,” said Jim Silva of SMRTO. “We had a couple of folks in wheel chairs. Because of the traffic cars had been parking on the sidewalk and they had to go out into traffic.”

Silva said a few newer families had moved to the area and could not believe the dangers created by the level of trucking on the fairly narrow street.

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