Two Campbell County residents are urging Alexandria officials to pass a resolution asking the state for a large truck ban on Kentucky Route 547.
Mark Muench and Tom Ramler addressed the Alexandria City Council on June 5 regarding their concerns for safety on Kentucky Route 547, also known as Four Mile Road and Riley Road, due to tractor-trailers driving over the yellow lines. Both men are residents of Camp Springs near Melbourne.
Muench said the pair addressed the council about six or eight weeks back and have been working on resolving their concerns for about a year and a half after being bounced around all over the state trying to find an answer.
Kentucky Route 547 is a 6.517-mile state highway that runs from KY-10 in Alexandria to KY-8 in Silver Grove. The entire route is in Campbell County.
The following maps show the location of Riley and Four Mile Roads.
Muench said the state gave them one option: enforcement. A truck can be ticketed if it crosses the double yellow lines on a road. However, the option the residents seek is from the primary regulation governing truck access in Kentucky (603 KAR 5:070), which exempts certain roads from allowing large trucks.
Size and weight restrictions listed in the statute can be found here.
“How you get on that list is to petition the governor,” Muench said. “So, what we’re asking the city of Alexandria to do is support us in this with a resolution.”
Alexandria City Councilmember Stacey Graus, who was filling in for Alexandria Mayor Andy Schabell, said the council would share the resolution with Alexandria City Attorney Mike Duncan so that he could make suggestions on what the city can and can’t do from a legal standpoint.
“We can take a look at it, and then if we feel like we can support it, we can put it in our own resolution and vote on that,” Graus said.
The plan of action, Muench said they would seek is a resolution from Alexandria, the city of Silver Grove, and the Campbell County Fiscal Court. He also said they hope to get letters of support from Senator Shelley Funke Frommeyer, a Republican from Alexandria and Representative Mike Clines, a Republican from Alexandria.
“We would like to have those representatives carry the petition to the governor’s office. That’s where we stand,” he said.
Ramler said the pair worked with Campbell County Commissioner Geoff Besecker to install the no-passing or double yellow lines from Alexandria to Silver Grove, which allow for the enforcement of large trucks.
“All the double yellow lines painted, all the signage is all up to date now,” Ramler said. “The 35 and 45 mile-an-hour speed zones that’s all been updated. Now we’re still working on road conditions.”
