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MassDOT asks Legislature to allow blue lights on highway maintenance vehicles to slow drivers in work zones
Summary
MassDOT Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver told the Joint Committee on Transportation that House Bill 3763 would allow the department to apply for registrar permits to use flashing blue lights on vehicles working on high-speed roadways, and he called the change "a small procedural change that will absolutely save lives."
MassDOT Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver told the Joint Committee on Transportation on May 20 that House Bill 3763 would permit MassDOT to apply to the registrar of motor vehicles for permits allowing flashing, rotating or oscillating blue lights on vehicles actively engaged in highway work. "This is a small procedural change that will absolutely save lives," Gulliver said.
The bill would add MassDOT to the list of agencies eligible to seek those permits and would let MassDOT develop internal policies governing how and where the lights would be used, Gulliver said. He emphasized the proposal would be limited to "high speed roadways" and to "vehicles actively engaged in highway work," and would not remove or reduce…
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