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Holyoke committee weighs moving parking enforcement to police, speed-trailer deployment and traffic staffing
Summary
Committee discussed transferring parking enforcement to the police traffic division, implementation status of speed trailers, stop-sign installation, truck/drag-racing complaints, and a traffic-squad staffing shortfall tied to contract and hiring issues; several items were tabled or marked complied with.
Holyoke City Councilors at a June Public Safety Committee meeting discussed multiple traffic and enforcement items, including a request to make parking enforcement a subdivision of the police traffic division, stop-sign enforcement at Brown Avenue and Laurel Street, truck traffic and speed complaints on Homestead Avenue, illegal drag racing on Biblio Drive, deployment of speed trailers, and the city ordinance requiring a traffic squad.
Councilors opened discussion of an order filed by Councilor Israel Rivera asking the mayor, Department of Public Works and the Parking Advisory Committee to consider making…
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