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Select Board hears update on Highland Avenue South TIP project; design, parking and right‑of‑way tradeoffs remain
Summary
Town and consultant staff presented a pre‑25% design update on the Highland Avenue South project, saying a coordinated corridor project is required to fix repeated congestion, stormwater and pedestrian safety problems.
Town staff and consultants presented a pre‑25% design update for the Highland Avenue South transportation improvement project and said the corridor can be improved only by a coordinated, multi‑intersection effort rather than piecemeal fixes.
“Doing a project of this particular nature is just beyond the resources of the community to take on,” Karis (DPW) told the board, describing the 1.3‑mile corridor from Webster Street south to Great Plain Avenue. The town wants to address signal timing and intersection operation, pedestrian and bicycle accommodations, stormwater drainage and pavement condition together rather than in separate one‑off projects.
Why it matters: Highland Avenue is a principal arterial in Needham with…
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