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Revere council advances Harris Street pilot, residents warn of spillover onto side streets
Summary
The Revere City Council heard a detailed presentation on a Harris Street/Route 16 traffic reconfiguration set to launch Dec. 6 with a 90‑day monitoring pilot; residents and several councilors raised concerns about notice, parking loss on Sewell Street and emergency access.
Tom Skrowski, Revere’s chief of planning and community development, laid out the city’s Harris Street and Route 16 intersection redesign and a short‑term pilot meant to reduce regional cut‑through traffic through a neighborhood.
"The intent of this project is not to bring more people into the neighborhood. It's to bring less people into the neighborhood," Skrowski said in presenting a plan tied to Suffolk Downs off‑site mitigation and MEPA/Section 61 findings. He said the configuration will convert the immediate Harris Street approach to a one‑way for the first block, simplify a five‑leg intersection to four phases and add additional left‑ and right‑turn lanes to improve traffic flow.
Skrowski said the pilot will begin with baseline data collection (24‑hour turning movement counts and 48‑hour ATR…
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