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THE STORM BEFORE THE CALM ; TO CRITICS, EFFORTS TO SLOW TRAFFIC AREN'T FAST ENOUGH
2006
Overview
Driving down Winchester Street, motorists in Brookline often get a jolt when they encounter one of the street's two raised crosswalks. An example of \"traffic calming,\" the structures rise about half a foot above the street line, to make drivers slow down as they approach the Brookline Senior Center. Just don't call them \"speed bumps.\" That term, and the crude device it signifies, apparently belong to a more benighted era of traffic management. In the parlance of modern traffic calming, such bulges are \"speed humps.\" Other modern \"calming\" measures include the \"bulb-out,\" along with kindred efforts such as the \"neckdown\" and the \"choker,\" each of which narrows a street at selected points. And there are various curb-line changes, all designed to make streets safer for children and other pedestrians. At Town Meeting in May, [Marty Rosenthal] offered an amendment to a line item on traffic calming in the town's 2007 budget. The amendment, which passed with broad support, vests authority in the Board of Selectmen for spending the $100,000 appropriated this year for traffic calming. It also requires the Transportation Board to report to the selectmen quarterly on the status of traffic calming projects. Childlike impatience hardly characterizes [Richard Segan]'s Driscoll School committee, Segan said in an interview. The group approached the town about traffic calming in the area in 1997. They secured a $100,000 grant from the state to create a model project for traffic calming near an elementary school in 2000, and installation of changes, including several bulb-outs sections of sidewalk that extend into parking lanes began the next year.
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