City Council has authorized a truck route pilot program that will encompass the removal of the Lansdowne and Seymour truck route designations from November 15, 2024, to May 15, 2025.

View the temporary Truck Route Map here.

The six-month pilot project will allow City staff to gain valuable insight into the impacts of the possible removal of truck route designations in the downtown core, outlined as an action within the Downtown Plan (2019). The City will also be carrying out a truck route study to assess the large trucks and dangerous good routes throughout the city.

With the Lansdowne Street truck route closed during construction in 2024, Seymour Street will be added to the closure November 15. Although Seymour Street does not convey most of the trucks downtown, the pilot program will provide a more comprehensive trial over the next six months for future consideration of important transportation decisions.

Trucks are permitted to travel along non-truck routes as long as they use the closest and most direct route to the trip’s destination upon entering or leaving the truck route. However, there are some places in Kamloops where vehicles over 10,900 kg are prohibited.

Public service vehicles, including municipal, transit, and school buses, are exempt from restricted truck routes limiting access to vehicles over a licensed GVW of 10,900 kg.

Truck routes play an important role in Kamloops by connecting arterial and collector roads to move goods and services in the city and surrounding region. Roads designated as truck routes have infrastructure that is safer to handle truck size and load requirements, including wider travel lanes, intersections that can accommodate trucks turning, thicker road surfaces, modifications to overhead and underground utilities, and adjusted signal timing for larger vehicles.

For more information about the pilot program, please visit LetsTalk.Kamloops.ca/TruckRoute.