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Haverhill committee approves temporary traffic-calming demonstration at Amesbury Line Road and Merrimack Road; engineering to monitor results
Summary
City engineers presented consultant recommendations for temporary, low-cost measures (flex posts, restriping) to address speeding and sight-line issues at the Amesbury Line Road/Merrimack Road intersection. The committee approved implementing the demonstration, with follow-up data collection and consideration of a permanent roundabout if needed.
City engineer John Pettis presented a consultant's recommendations for temporary, low-cost traffic-calming treatments at the Amesbury Line Road and Merrimack Road intersection and the public safety committee authorized the implementation of a demonstration project to be monitored for effectiveness.
Pettis described a three-sheet concept set that included short-term visual treatments (restricting lane space with flex posts and restriping) to tighten travel lanes and move stop bars closer to the intersection. "Those would be flex posts that we would put in,"…
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