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MassDOT to install rapid‑flashing beacons and add lighting after Merrimack Street pedestrian fatality
Summary
After a pedestrian death on Merrimack Street, Methuen leaders met with MassDOT and secured commitments to install rectangular rapid flashing beacons at nine intersections and to add street lighting; the work is to be completed during this year’s construction season.
Mayor (Mayor, Methuen City) said the city convened an emergency meeting with Massachusetts Department of Transportation officials and state delegation members after a pedestrian fatality on Merrimack Street and that MassDOT “will be making significant, and I mean significant, pedestrian safety upgrades” along the corridor.
The upgrades MassDOT pledged include installing rectangular rapid‑flashing beacons at or near nine intersections on Merrimack Street and improvements to street lighting along the corridor. The mayor listed the intersections MassDOT identified for the beacons, including…
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