Revere Councilor wants speeding crackdown in city areas

REVERE-City Councilor Ira Novoselsky wants residential speed limits enforced along North Shore Road and the congested neighborhoods around Shirley Avenue.With its crisscrossing side streets lined with two and three family homes, North Shore Road running to Revere Beach Parkway already has a parking problem.Speed limit enforcement focused mostly at the Oak Island and Point of Pines end of North Shore Road needs to be extended to the Parkway end of North Shore, Novoselsky said.He wants speed limit signs enforcing 20 mile per hour to 30 mile per hour speeds erected between Shirley Avenue and Dehon Street, Centennial Avenue to Waverly Avenue, Blake Street and Cove Street, Wolcott Road and Eliot Road, Cove and Blake streets and Dana Street and Centennial Avenue.Revere and State Police consider Route 107, the Parkway and North Shore Road near Oak Island prime local speedways because of their straight stretches.Following a fatal accident in Oak Island in January 2006 and several on the Parkway in 2005, Councilors John Correggio and John Powers pushed for increased enforcement.Powers said drivers speed during early morning hours down North Shore Road in excess of 60 miles an hour.He also said the pedestrian signal at Oak Island Street and North Shore Road does not give residents, especially seniors, time to cross the highway to the convenience store located on one corner of the intersection.Plans for reducing speeding have included placing “thickly settled” signs along North Shore Road to encourage commuters to slow down as they pass through Oak Island.Councilors also want state and environmental police to crack down on illegal trash dumping on Route 107. Correggio said waste dumping along the road has included hazardous materials that could contaminate water in the marshes bordering the road.