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Revere to pilot Harris Street traffic reconfiguration Dec. 6 after years of mitigation planning
Summary
City planners will test a new Harris Street/Route 16 intersection configuration on Dec. 6 aimed at removing regional cut-through traffic; the 90-day pilot includes baseline and post-implementation counts, a developer $35,000 contribution, multilingual outreach and the possibility of reversions or further changes based on data.
Tom Skrowski, Revere’s chief of planning and community development, told the City Council the Harris Street reconfiguration — developed as off‑site mitigation tied to the Suffolk Downs project and reflected in MEPA section 61 findings — will be implemented the afternoon of Dec. 6 as a 90‑day pilot.
Skrowski described lane changes at the Route 16/Winthrop Avenue intersection and said the pilot will convert the first block of Harris Street to one‑way, reduce the intersection from five signal phases to four and add dual turn lanes to shorten wait times. “There’s about 2,500 vehicles that currently use Harris Street as essentially a cut through,” he said, and the goal is to divert “1,500 to 2,000 of those cars and bring them back onto Route 16.”
The city will collect pre‑ and…
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