A Dauphin road may soon be closed off.

That is the hope of impacted residents after they presented their concerns during the most recent city council meeting.

Bruce Rampton lives on Range Road 144N and he says both the people that live there and Reit-Syd Equipment never imagined the problems that would develop as the road became more popular.

 “We were hoping it would be a win-win for everyone. The municipal governments wouldn’t’ have to be spending all that money keeping up a road. It would take us longer, the people that live there, to go to town then affect anybody else. Reit-Syd would like to see it too because it’s such a cost to them trying to control that dust. It’s even difficult on their workers when they are working outside and they constantly have to keep the doors shut to their bays and their repair shop because there is so much dust floating.”

Rampton argues that the road isn’t even that much quicker to travel on as opposed to going along the bypass. He says after testing how long it takes both ways, you are only saving around 6 seconds if you go the speed limit.