Methuen residents press committee to accept unaccepted streets; task force to pursue surveys, title work

Methuen City’s Unaccepted Ways Committee heard multiple residents on July 14 asking the city to resolve “unaccepted” street segments, with a focus on Crestrail Lane, and directed staff to pursue engineering and title work and to prepare a neighborhood petition to move the matter toward a formal vote.

Mister Longo, a resident of Crestrail Lane, told the committee the cul‑de‑sac at the end of his street is owned by him and a neighbor and that municipal snow plowing repeatedly dumps snow into their circle. He said prior promises of follow‑up did not occur and that bringing the segment into an accepted status could cost “$12,000 to get it approved,” a sum he called unfair after five decades on the street.

The committee heard a second resident, David Wilson, who said the street’s deterioration and frost heaves are beginning to impede driveways…