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Council enacts traffic-control updates; members raise questions about flashing signals and local crash history
Summary
The council approved amendments to the city traffic-control file implementing Traffic Commission recommendations. Council members raised resident concerns about overnight flashing lights and a history of collisions at a downtown intersection where a signal was previously removed.
WORCESTER — The Worcester City Council adopted an ordinance April 7 amending the city’s traffic-control file to implement recommendations from the Traffic Commission, actions the administration described as no-cost updates to signal timing and signage.
City traffic engineer (Mazzei) told the council that the ordinance mainly updates engineering references and reflects actions already recommended by the Traffic Commission. Councilmembers used the floor to raise a recent resident complaint:…
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