Heavy trucks may soon find themselves limited in terms of how they travel through Thunder Bay.

The city's long-in-development designated truck route bylaw is going back before council on Monday.

The bylaw, if eventually approved by council, would limit transport trucks to specific roads in the city.

The proposal would prohibit the trucks from using Highway 102 or Arthur Street; instead, they'd have to use Highway 61 or Highway 11/17, and the Harbour Expressway, Main Street and Island Drive.

"Heavy trucks will be able to travel to any delivery destination in the City," the report to council states. "Trucks will be required to traverse as far as practical along the new Designated Truck Route during a trip. They are required to use the shortest possible distance on undesignated [c]ity str

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