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Acton Select Board backs townwide traffic-calming policy; staff to return final draft on consent
Summary
After a presentation by Town Engineer Chinray Peng, the Acton Select Board signaled support for a formal traffic-calming policy establishing submission, evaluation and staging procedures for resident requests and a new PACE CAR program; staff will finalize wording and return the policy on a future consent agenda.
Chinray Peng, the town engineer, presented a draft traffic-calming policy to the Acton Select Board on March 17, describing a multi-step, data-driven process for handling resident requests and staged interventions.
Peng told the board the policy defines traffic calming as physical measures that alter driver behavior and improve conditions for nonmotorized users and sets minimum eligibility criteria (town-owned residential roadway, minimum roadway length or demonstrated routine speeding, majority residential frontage, posted speed limit 40 mph or less). She said the policy…
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