Traffic control signals shall be installed,
maintained and operated at the intersections and locations described
in Schedule I of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic Regulations, on file
in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department and in the Town Clerk's
office.
The streets or parts of streets described in
Schedule II of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic Regulations, on file
in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department and in the Town Clerk's
office, are hereby designated as one-way streets during the periods
indicated, and vehicles shall proceed along those streets or parts
of streets only in the direction indicated during the periods indicated.
[Amended 11-18-1985 by L.L. No. 7-1985]
A.
Prohibited turns at intersections. No persons shall
make a turn of the kind designated (left, right, all) at any of the
locations described in Schedule III of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic
Regulations, on file in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department and
the Town Clerk's office.
B.
Lane designation. No vehicle shall proceed through
an intersection when in a lane which has been designated by a sign
as a left-turn-only lane or a right-turn-only lane. Said designated
lanes shall be set forth in Schedule XIII of the Town of Tonawanda
Traffic Regulations, on file in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department
and the Town Clerk's office.
The turning of vehicles so as to proceed in
the opposite direction (otherwise known as a U-turn) is hereby prohibited
on any of the streets or parts of streets described in Schedule IV
of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic Regulations, on file in the Town
of Tonawanda Police Department and in the Town Clerk's office.
In accordance with the provisions of § 1111,
Subdivision (d)2, of the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the turnings of
vehicles facing a steady red signal shall be prohibited at intersection
locations designated in Schedule V of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic
Regulations, on file in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department and
in the Town Clerk's office.
The streets or parts of streets described in
Schedule VI of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic Regulations, on file
in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department and in the Town Clerk's
office, are hereby designated as through highways, and stop or yield
signs shall be erected on entrances thereto as indicated in said regulations.
The intersections described in Schedule VII
of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic Regulations, on file in the Town
of Tonawanda Police Department and in the Town Clerk's office, are
hereby designated as stop intersections, and stop signs shall be located
as indicated in said regulations.
The intersections described in Schedule VIII
of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic Regulations, on file in the Town
of Tonawanda Police Department and in the Town Clerk's office, are
hereby designated as yield intersections, and yield signs shall be
located as indicated in said regulations.
[Amended 8-9-1999 by L.L. No. 4-1999]
A.
The maximum speed limit at which vehicles may proceed
on or along any Town highways outside of the Village of Kenmore shall
be 30 miles per hour, excepting portions of Town highways described
in Schedule IX-A of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic Regulations, on
file in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department and in the Town Clerk's
office, for which the speed limit shall be as indicated in said regulations.
B.
The maximum speed limit at which vehicles may proceed
on or along any county highways within the Town, outside of the Village
of Kenmore, shall be 30 miles per hour, excepting portions of county
highways described in Schedule IX-B of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic
Regulations, on file in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department and
in the Town Clerk's office, for which the speed limit shall be as
indicated in said regulations.
[Amended 11-23-2017 by L.L. No. 7-2017]
A.
A truck route system, upon which commercial motor vehicles having
a total combined gross weight, a gross combination weight rating (GCWR),
or a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 10,001 pounds or more are
permitted to travel and operate, shall consist of the highways described
in Schedule X of the Town of Tonawanda Traffic Regulations, on file
in the Town of Tonawanda Police Department and in the Town Clerk's
office. The total combined gross weight of vehicle plus load shall
be ascertained by computing the entire weight of the truck or vehicle
plus load or, in the event that said vehicle is a tractor-trailer
combination, then by computing the entire weight of the tractor and
trailer plus load. Such exclusion shall not be construed to prevent
deliveries or loadings of merchandise or other property or materials
along the streets from which trucks are excluded, provided that the
vehicle by which any such delivery is made shall enter and leave by
the nearest accessible street to the place where said delivery is
made and provided that such delivery vehicles shall remain on said
prohibited place and thoroughfare for a period of time no longer than
necessary and reasonable to make such delivery or to complete a loading
of such vehicle; nor to prevent the necessary operation of trucks
while in use by the United States postal or military services or by
fire, police, sanitation or street maintenance services or by public
transportation corporations on franchised routes or by public service
corporations or by public service corporations while on emergency
repair work.
B.
All streets forming part of such truck route system shall be marked
by conspicuous signs bearing the words "truck route" in letters not
less than five inches in height, such signs to be spaced not more
than 1,500 feet apart. In addition, conspicuous signs bearing lettering
not less than five inches in height, such signs to be adequately illuminated
between sunset and sunrise or to be constructed of a reflecting material
so as to be easily readable at night when lights from vehicle headlights
fall upon such signs, shall be placed on each main highway entering
the Town, at or near the point where such highway crosses or meets
the boundary line of the Town, indicating that trucks having a weight
in excess of five tons, including load, are excluded from all streets
within the Town, except those streets designated as part of the authorized
truck route system.
C.
No person, firm or corporation shall drive or operate or cause to
be driven or operated any excluded truck into, upon, along or through
the streets of the Town in violation of the provisions of this section.
Any person, firm or corporation which shall drive or operate or cause
to be driven or operated an excluded truck in violation of this section
shall be liable to the Town of Tonawanda for any damage arising out
of such operation.
