Abbotsford residents frustrated by provincial road project [Video]

Residents of a rural Abbotsford neighbourhood are fed up with the noise from a provincial project that has meant hundreds of dump trucks rumbling up and down their street in the middle of the night.

“Between the hours of 10 at night and 4 in the morning, I would say between 200 and 300 trucks will make their way in and out of the pit,” said long-time resident Arne Larsen, referring to the Strong Pit reclamation site on King Road.

Larsen said the surge in traffic began about a year ago, with the large trucks hauling out dirt from the Highway 1 expansion project in the Fraser Valley.

But he said the truck noise is not even the worst of it.

Rather, he said, it’s the 5 a.m. scraping and cleaning of the road from the dirt left by trucks that’s the biggest disturbance.

“That shakes the house. It’s so …