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Downtown Lights: 'There are All Sorts of Funny Shenanigans Going on There'
There's a funny situation at the lights near Church Street, and you'll have to deal with it through the winter.
Why do we have three lights, but two lanes? It's one of many questions that have come up concerning the progress, and strange setup, of the Downtown Improvement Project. While Fred Litchfield, the town's engineer who is most familiar with this project that is headed by the Department of Transportation, wasn't at the Board of Selectmen meeting on Monday night, Chief Mark Leahy was able to field a question. It's a question many readers have asked, as well, and Selectman Leslie Rutan brought it to the table during her regular report. "When you're heading down Route 20 going east," she said, "you come to the intersection with Church Street, and there is a left arrow there. And in addition to the left arrow there is a left arrow sign. Now, you…
Karen
12:30 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
I just wanted to come back and report on some crazy driving I saw as a direct result of the bad lights in the center of town. One day last week, I sat through the red arrow at Rt20E onto Church thru 3 cycles. On the last of the three cycles, I observed THREE cars also miss the red arrow, so they went straight and turned left into the CVS parking lot. They drove thru the lot to Pierce, then turned… more ›