Local officials from Bolesławiec County met on Thursday, June 14, in Trzebień (Bolesławiec municipality) with the consul general of the United States. The meeting—as a reader informed us—concerned problems related to military traffic through the village.
Reader:
Residents are troubled by the large vehicles of the U.S. Army and the Polish Army, which simply do not fit on the roads through Trzebień to the nearby training ground because they are too narrow. As a result, considerable damage and situations unsafe for local residents occur. Among other things, a roadside shrine was demolished.
The reader adds:
Shame! It turns out that the U.S. Army is more interested in the problem than the Polish Army. To this day, the Ministry of National Defence has not responded to appeals from the local government and residents.
We will return to this subject.
Let us recall. At the beginning of May, in an article titled Desperate Trzebień residents write to Błaszczak. Why? U.S. Army, we reported that residents of Trzebień had written to the head of the Ministry of National Defence, Mariusz Błaszczak. The document states:
[... ] We live near the Trzebień Mały military camp, where military exercises take place. For several years now, U.S. troops have been stationed in the territory of the Republic of Poland. The Polish state authorities had known about their arrival for a long time. To date, nothing has been done in the Trzebień area to designate a proper route for oversized military vehicles.The roads running through our village are not adapted to this type of transport. As a result of convoy movements in 2016, 2017 and this year, in April, the road, verges and the village’s roadside infrastructure were damaged [...].
We live in constant fear for our own safety and that of our children. Military vehicles and those serving the military travel along the narrow road where we live. The passage of heavy transports is very burdensome. They cause noise and air pollution and create a hazard for pedestrians, especially children on their way to school.
We cannot even move freely along the narrow verges, because passing vehicle convoys literally push us into the ditches. [...]
Military traffic is expected to increase soon. We have no strength or patience left. The residents are determined.