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I don’t know if 48 years of living on Powder House Blvd. constitutes a “study”. Traffic traveling from North Street along the boulevard in the evening, 25% of it turns left onto Curtis Street causing a back-up because cars traveling from Powder House Circle don’t allow them to turn. Traffic on Curtis Street, from Tufts, has to turn left or right but traffic from Teele Square mainly goes straight not allowing cars to turn left. If you change signals so the one lane of traffic is moving at a time, this would allow traffic to keep moving. You would have 3 lanes of traffic stopped at any one time. You would also have a pedestrian signal allowing safe crossing.

There are 3 blind people who walk the boulevard and Curtis Street and listen for the “clicks” of the traffic signals to cross the street. No traffic signals, no “clicks”! How are they going to cross the street?

Gary Goodwin
Powder House Blvd resident