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Residents petition to lower speed on Roxbury Street; committee asks staff for study
Summary
A petition from Upper Roxbury Street residents asking the city to reduce speeds prompted the Municipal Services, Facilities & Infrastructure Committee to ask staff for targeted speed counts, sight‑distance checks and engineering options; committee unanimously referred the matter for staff evaluation.
Alan Houston, a resident of 362 Roxbury Street, presented a petition asking the city to lower the posted speed limit on Roxbury Street between Water Street and Lincoln Street, saying drivers “just fly down the hill” and recounting a January near‑miss when a plow operator narrowly avoided collision. Houston told the committee that sidewalks end partway up the hill and that many schoolchildren walk in the area to reach nearby…
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