Traffic & Transit
Mayor Wu Announces New Speed Hump Street Safety Program
"We're releasing a new speed hump policy and design directive that designates speed humps as part of our standard street design."
May 23, 2023
BOSTON - Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and her Chief of Streets, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, announced a new street safety program aimed at curbing traffic related injuries and deaths.
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It is called Safety Surge and will install speed humps on streets across 10 city zones per year. The zones are picked based on crash data and neighborhood demographics.
"We're releasing a new speed hump policy and design directive that designates speed humps as part of our standard street design. Whenever it's technically appropriate to install them, we will make the effort to do so," Franklin-Hodge said.
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