Police: No need to lower speed limits...
Published in the January 31, 2017 edition. By MARK SARDELLA WAKEFIELD — Last year, the state of Massachusetts adopted a new law that allows cities and towns to lower their statutory speed limits to 25 mph. Recently, Boston and Somerville took advantage of that new provision to lower statutory speed limits in those cities. Would such a move make sense for Wakefield? Not according to Wakefield Police Department’s resident traffic expert Lt. Steven Skory, who chairs the town’s Traffic Advisory Committee. “I am not in favor of lowering the statutory speed limit to 25 mph in Wakefield,” Skory says. “The new law that allows municipalities to lower speed limits to 25 is most beneficial to urban communities like Boston, Cambridge and Somerville which have narrow, congested roadways.” Understanding how the new law works, Skory...
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