Effects of Additional Truck Traffic

1,400 truck trips per day (more than 1 a minute) will have to enter and leave the open-pit mine from the Rainbow Valley Boulevard interchange onto Interstate 15.

Heavy-laden aggregate trucks will cause damage to our existing, already overburdened roadways, as well as cause damage to our personal vehicles from flying rocks.

	There will be a direct increase of truck traffic through our Valley.
	Area freeways are already severely congested and just one 18-wheeler takes up about four cars' worth of space

Hasan Ikhrata, the newly appointed Executive Director for the Southern California Association of Governments, the nation's largest regional planning agency, said that trucks used to make up 3 percent of vehicles traveling the highways of the Los Angeles metropolitan region, whose long arms reach to Riverside County. That was in 1990. By 2005, the heavy trucks accounted for about 6 percent of traffic, Ikhrata said, and the trend isn't expected to slow. By 2020, he said, one in every 10 vehicles on our freeways will be a big rig.

Negative Effects of Additional Truck Traffic