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Summer St. residents speak out Pioneers baseball takes down North against improvement project Reading in Division 3 North quarterfinal
Residents packed the room during a June 12 informational meeting hosted by the Lynnfield DPW at the Al Merritt Center with Bayside Engineering to discuss the proposed Summer Street Improvement Project.
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team of representatives from Bayside Engineering recently presented a robust plan to improve the section of Summer Street between Town Hall and the Salem Street intersection. During a June 12 Jonathan Luders makes takes a dive stop a line drive and make an out at second base during meeting, Bayside Engineering the Pioneers 2-0 victory over their Cape Ann League rivals, North Reading at Lynnfield High President Norman Brown said School during the Division 3 North quarterfinal matchup on Monday, June 11. See more photo the idea for the project surhighlights on page 13. (Advocate photo by Dave Sokol) faced four years ago and has
gained traction with the assistance of Department of Public Works Director John Tomasz and Town Engineer Charles Richter. “John and Charlie were enthused about getting us back on track,” said Brown. Brown said the project would be funded through the state’s Transportation Improvement Program. To do that, he
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She said the one-way flow of traffic within the outdoor mall he MarketStreet Adviso- has only created more of a botry Committee (MSAC) vot- tleneck. ed unanimously, during its Breen said he initially reJune 7 meeting, to adopt the sponded to the situation in final series of suggestions 2016 when he met with thenfrom the Traffic Subcommit- MarketStreet Lynnfield Genertee. Before the vote was tak- al Manager Nanci Horn to deen, Police Chief David Breen velop a plan to alleviate the said traffic has been a major traffic snarls, particularly durproblem since MarketStreet ing the holiday season. He said Lynnfield opened in Septem- the plan included hiring staff ber 2013. He said traffic is of- to help drivers find parking ten “gridlocked” from Salem spaces, installing signboards Street to Route 1 in Saugus and implementing off-site emand from Walnut Street to ployee parking. Breen said that Thomas Road. at Whole Foods alone, there In addition, he said it is not are “70-80” employees. uncommon to see Interstate Regarding calls for service, 95 jammed with motorists try- Breen said the Police Departing to get off at exit 43, the exit ment received 76 calls during for MarketStreet. “In the earlier the four months that Marketdays of my career, traffic used Street was open in 2013. That to be backed up to exit 41 and number more than tripled would never go beyond that,” with 243 calls in 2014. Breen he said. said his department received MSAC Member Jocelyn another 373 calls for service Fleming said traffic has also in 2015. picked up on the side streets “ Traffic accidents have around MarketStreet, with trended up, which I don’t think drivers routinely making Uturns in residents’ driveways.
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