Lincoln already has speed bumps that are unsafe at any speed. Lincoln's public school is on a side street isolated from through traffic.
None of Lincoln's intersections has a remarkable accident rate. There is only one traffic signal under town control. It is probably due for an upgrade. The Globe article says Boston plans signal improvements. In a 2021 letter to the Federal Highway Administration the city pleaded that signal upgrades would be "prohibitively expensive". (This reminds me that one of the rules being floated by FHWA says that metropolitan areas should upgrade all their signals to cater to self-driving cars. Not going to happen.) I am not concerned about traffic speed on my street. Once in a while there is a traffic jam as Google decides to route commuter traffic past my house. That is the price of living near civilization. I hear one neighbor complain about speeding cars, which I never see. (The speeding car isn't mine, she would recognize it.) I hear another neighbor complain about bicycles clogging the roads, which I never see. I would rather the town go back to diversity surveys or community center re-re-redesign and leave traffic alone. John Carr On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 9:44 AM John Mendelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lessons for Lincoln here, perhaps? > > https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/05/22/mayor-wu-street-safety-initiative-focus-speed-humps-intersections-signals/?p1=hp_featurestack > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > -- The LincolnTalk mailing list. To post, send mail to [email protected]. Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. Change your subscription settings at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln.
