Last Tuesday night featured a rare summertime Lowell City Council meeting that finished before the 10 pm deadline set by the council rules. The public portion of the meeting finished at 9:30, but the council then went into executive session and adjourned from there. Perhaps the main reason this meeting was so concise was that none of the public relations stuff that usually takes up 30 to 60 minutes at the start of the meeting was on the agenda. By “public relations stuff” I mean the presentation of proclamations, the welcoming of new businesses, or the reading of multiple obituaries of the newly deceased (there was just one of them).
MassDot’s latest plan for the Connector is to “improve” its terminus at Gorham Street, with the favored concept being a rotary. The problem with any of their plans is that they don’t address the speed problem approaching the end of the Connector. Re-doing the Connector much farther out has a better chance at doing that, but it won’t be easy.
A two-lane entrance to the Connector outbound at Thorndike street is just one additional step of dividing the urban landscape with speedways, and should be rejected before any planning money is spent.
MassDot’s latest plan for the Connector is to “improve” its terminus at Gorham Street, with the favored concept being a rotary. The problem with any of their plans is that they don’t address the speed problem approaching the end of the Connector. Re-doing the Connector much farther out has a better chance at doing that, but it won’t be easy.
A two-lane entrance to the Connector outbound at Thorndike street is just one additional step of dividing the urban landscape with speedways, and should be rejected before any planning money is spent.