Please,
Begin an ordinance that tells semi-truck drivers that choose stay overnight in the Ashland Oregon Shop n Kart parking lot to turn off their engines after 10 minutes; instead of leaving them on all night.
Thank you.
Why is this important?
In order to stay safe and warm when the I-5 interstate mountain freeway to California is not passable due to snow and ice, semi-truck drivers leave their motors running through out the night in the parking lot beside our local Ashland Oregon Shop 'n Kart just off exit 14. Like many local Ashland residents, My daughter and I live less than a block away, and I regret to report that we can smell diesel fumes and hear their engines rumbling durring these hazardous traveling times.
Unfortunately however, the nitrogen oxide (NOx) adsorbers, sulfur dioxide, and sulfur trioxide released when burning diesel gasoline hovers in the air in our neighborhood, due to the weather trapping effect called an inversion layer, which is a common event in Ashland Oregon. We must require resting semi-truck drivers to shut off their engines after 10 minutes.
