ABSTRACT
This chapter explores why and how certain city roads become accepted as routes for truck movement or, more generally, how the mobility of goods in urban space is channeled into acceptable conduits. It seeks to complement these transportation approaches with a mobility perspective that emphasizes the context in which truck routes are constructed as social facts. It argues that while all developed urban places today have to deal with heightened intra-metropolitan truck movement, the mobility practices that shape how truck routes are built, designated, and enacted both create and perpetuate distinct and uneven urban geographies. The deal affirmed that the City of Vancouver could exercise some control over truck movements, but also that it could recruit the regulatory powers of the Port to ensure that port-destined trucks followed the TransLink-designated Major Route Network (MRN). Drawing on mobilities perspectives, the chapter has advanced an understanding of how truck routes come to be recognized as social facts.
