Coronado's First Street Rests Easier without Big Trucks

It's quieter these days on First Street in Coronado, where for years residents put up with hundreds of big rigs rumbling toward North Island Naval Air Station starting at 4:30 a.m. most weekdays. Relief arrived with the opening last summer of a new main entrance to the base on Third Street, where many vehicles and all commercial trucks heading there have since been directed.

And in December, the city “de-designated” the two-laned First Street a truck route, officially ending what had become for many residents a nightmare.

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