COLUMN: Squeaky Wheels fighting to slow down wheels on Newtonville Avenue, throughout Newton
Courtesy of Jennifer Tsuda and Amy Lankenau McPherson
Jennifer Tsuda and Amy Lankenau McPherson, both longtime residents of Newtonville Avenue, are leading a grassroots effort for traffic calming measures on Newtonville Avenue and throughout the city of Newton.
Supported by Councilors Susan Albright, Maria Greenberg, and Emily Norton with whom they met several weeks ago outside on Bram Way in Newtonville, Tsuda and McPherson are moving enthusiastically ahead with solving the safety issue of way-over-the-speed-limit speeding on their street and throughout the city of Newton.
Working with Isaac Prizant, city traffic engineer, and five resident petitions, Tsuda and McPherson have already achieved a new stop sign at the corner of Mt. Ida and Newtonville and a crosswalk there as well. Early on, “we learned that it’s best to tap into the expertise and experience of folks at the Newton D
Wicked Local
It’s not often a government official says, “money is waiting there to be spent,” but that is precisely what Councilor-at-Large Alison Leary stated about Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding for the rehabilitation of city fields.
Leary, like several other councilors at a recent Programs and Services meeting, pushed Nicole Banks, commissioner of the Newton Parks, Recreation & Culture Department, to create a timeline with priorities for upgrading the fields. Banks and councilors at the meeting agreed that in order to move forward, the parks department will need to create funding proposals to be assessed by the Community Preservation Committee (CPC).