Residents split over $51,000 Riverside Drive barrier; council pauses before concrete pour
Public commenters offered competing traffic counts and safety solutions — from removable speed tables to permanent barriers — while staff said the barrier was added by change order to a CDBG-funded project and concrete work is imminent. Residents and letter-writers gave differing figures (909/day, 4,000/week, 6,000/week).
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A lengthy public-comment period at the Lowell City Council meeting focused on a proposed barrier on Riverside Drive that residents say reduced through traffic but that some object to because of cost. Several residents objected to a $51,000 permanent diversion and urged lower-cost alternatives such as removable speed tables or stop signs. "Riverside was never intended to be a thoroughfare to leave Lowell," Kerry Beauchamp said during public comment.
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